Biographie en anglais
Patricia Mindus is a legal and political philosopher at Uppsala University, Sweden. She has an interest in legal realism, democratic theory and migration. Signature contributions include the functionalist theory of citizenship and the theory of migration as institutional fact. Previously Wallenberg Academy Fellow, she is now the Director of Uppsala Forum for Democracy, Peace and Justice and the President of the Swedish IVR. She directs research on citizenship and migration policy in the EU, with a political and legal theory perspective and has authored several monographs on citizenship, European citizenship and Scandinavian Legal Realism. She is currently editing, together with Torben Spaak (Stockholm) the Cambridge Companion to Legal Positivism (CUP 2020) and, together with Elena Prats (Uppsala/UPF) a special issue of the Journal Theoria (Wiley) on Women in Contemporary Philosophy: Voices from Scandinavia (forthcoming 2020).