Gustav Stenseke Arup

Gustav Stenseke Arup is a Senior Lecturer in Jurisprudence at Karlstad University, specializing in legal theory, environmental law, and legal geography. His research explores the interplay between law, environment, and spatial dynamics, emphasizing process-ontological and relational approaches. He currently leads the project Climate in the Constitution, analyzing Sweden’s constitutional frameworks for climate policy alignment with the Paris Agreement. His work bridges legal pluralism, anthropocentric landscapes, and non-human agency, particularly focusing on wolves in Swedish ecosystems.

Teaching responsibilities include jurisprudence, environmental law, constitutional law, and contract law across programs in Law, Political Science, Business Management, and Real Estate. He supervises master’s theses, emphasizing critical legal geography and environmental policy analysis.

Research interests span legal morphogenesis, constitutional dynamics, and planetary boundaries, with a focus on how legal norms entangle with ecological processes. Recent publications address legal dogmatics critique, Earth System Law, and the role of non-human actors in legal frameworks. His 2021 doctoral thesis Entangled Law remains foundational to his work on multispecies jurisprudence.

Current initiatives include developing constitutional climate protection mechanisms and advancing a platial turn in legal geography. His interdisciplinary approach integrates environmental science, philosophy, and legal theory to address contemporary ecological governance challenges.