Role: Faculty of Law, Lund University
Lund, Sweden

  Contact: mirjam.katzin@jur.lu.se

  Research Interests:
Feminist Legal Theory | Vulnerability Theory | Social Welfare Law | Public Law | Constitutional Law | Administrative Law

Mirjam Katzin is a graduate student in Social Welfare Law at Lund University, Sweden. The working title of her PhD project is Citizens as Customers - the Marketization of Swedish Care for Older People. The aim of the project is to investigate the legal changes in the Swedish care for older people in connection with the marketizations in the Swedish welfare system that have occurred over the past decade, with care choice systems being introduced. How have the public obligations changed, directly and indirectly, in terms of the social rights of older people, particularly regarding the responsibility for the needs, the responsibility for the quality of the care and the equality aspects of the care system, as a result of marketization processes? The concept of vulnerability is used to question the premise of the care choice system, which is built on the idea of autonomy rather than the idea of equality. This is a shift of Swedish social policy, and this shift is analyzed through the lens of the vulnerability theory.

Mirjam's research interest concerns question of how power structures work in and through the legal system. A focus is the welfare state as a battlefield over the distribution of resources and political and economic power. She is looking forward to participating in the Law and Vulnerability Seminar during her time at Emory Law, as well as having other productive discussions with colleagues at the Feminism and Legal Theory Project and Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative, and to sharing her knowledge of Swedish law.