Mala Loth

Mala Loth is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Oslo (2021), an MA from Humboldt-University Berlin, and a BA from the University of Göttingen. Her research focuses on the historical roles of lawyers and societal actors in European social integration, alongside the history of legal knowledge and ignorance in European law.

Previously, she served as a guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (Frankfurt) and as a senior researcher in the ERC-project 'CREATIVE IPR' at the University of Oslo’s Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History. At ARENA, she leads the 'The European dimension on Norwegian Law (EurNor)' project, examining the historical production and diffusion of Community law-related knowledge in Norway since the 1980s.

Her publications analyze legal processes in the European Court of Justice, gender equality litigation, and biographical studies of legal figures. Mala’s work bridges legal historiography with social integration studies, emphasizing transnational legal dynamics and knowledge transfer mechanisms.