Maria Sjöholm

Maria Sjöholm is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Behavioural, Social and Legal Sciences, Örebro University. She specializes in legal science with a focus on international human rights law and gender-based violence.

• Research interests include maternal mortality, obstetric violence, online gender-based hate speech, and gender-sensitive legal interpretation.
• Current projects: Autonomous Weapons Systems & Liability in International Criminal Law, Recognition of States in International Law.
• Completed projects: LAWGEM (2019-2022) on gender equality education, and legal frameworks for online gender-based violence.

Her publications span articles in journals like McGill Journal of Law and Health, Melbourne Journal of International Law, and Questions of International Law, plus monographs with Springer and Brill Nijhoff.

She contributes to research groups including Public International Law at ORU (ORUPIL) and JuVås, focusing on legal violence studies and feminist international law approaches.