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Lydia Lundstedt is an Associate Professor (docent) in private international law at Stockholm University's Faculty of Law, where she is employed in the Department of Law. She has held this position since December 2018, after previously serving as a Senior Lecturer in Business Law with a focus on intellectual property law at Linköping University from August 2018. Since 2025, she has chaired the Stockholm Law Faculty's Trust Fund for Publications.
Dr. Lundstedt earned her doctorate in 2016 from Stockholm University with her dissertation "Territoriality in Intellectual Property Law," supervised by Professor Marianne Levin. Her academic journey includes a post-doctoral scholarship from the Foundation for Jurisprudential Research in 2019.
Lundstedt's research primarily focuses on the intersection of private international law and intellectual property law, examining how jurisdictional and choice of law rules apply to cross-border intellectual property disputes. Her work spans various areas including trade secrets, copyright, trademarks, and data protection in the digital age. She has conducted significant research on the territoriality principle in intellectual property law, analyzing its interpretation and application in both EU and US legal systems.
Her publication record demonstrates a consistent focus on how private international law rules address the challenges posed by digital technology and cross-border intellectual property disputes. Recent works examine the EU's Digital Single Market Directive, jurisdictional issues in online copyright cases, and the application of the GDPR to cross-border data protection disputes. Her scholarship often analyzes rulings by the Court of Justice of the European Union to determine how they shape the landscape for intellectual property rights holders operating across borders.
- Post-doc scholarship from the Foundation for Jurisprudential Research (2019)
Lundstedt serves on the Education Committee (2024-2027) and is the head of the Transborder Group for the Swedish Association for Intellectual Property Law (SFIR) since 2017. She has supervised numerous master's theses and doctoral students. Her research on cross-border trade secret disputes was funded by the Foundation for Jurisprudential Research and resulted in a monograph published by Edward Elger Publishing in the Elgar Monographs in Private International Law series.
As an educator, Lundstedt teaches private international law, intellectual property law, contract law, and American law. She has published on innovative approaches to legal education, including enhancing critical thinking in private international law courses as part of Stockholm University's "Stockholm Model" initiative that aims to place law in a broader societal context.
