Victoria Enkvist

Victoria Enkvist serves as Associate Professor of Constitutional Law and Senior Lecturer in Public Law at Uppsala University's Department of Law, Faculty of Law. Her research examines rights interpretation across legal systems with emphasis on constitutional application in contemporary societal contexts. She actively leads multidisciplinary projects addressing emerging legal challenges at the intersection of human rights, environmental governance, and secularism.

Enkvist's core research domains encompass Constitutional Law, Public Law, Human Rights, and Educational Law, with specialized expertise in Rights of Nature frameworks, religious freedom in secular societies, and equitable education systems. Her methodological approach integrates comparative legal analysis with historical perspectives to investigate how rights evolve and interact within complex institutional environments, particularly focusing on conflicts between competing rights claims and the creation of new right-bearing subjects.

Analysis of her recent publications reveals a pronounced scholarly trajectory toward environmental constitutionalism, especially through groundbreaking work on Rights of Nature across Scandinavian and Latin American jurisdictions. Concurrently, her research on religious minorities in secular states demonstrates sophisticated examination of how legal systems accommodate religious diversity while maintaining secular principles, often through case studies of migrant religious communities in Sweden.

Enkvist currently supervises doctoral candidate Elin Boyer in legal history research. She has secured substantial competitive funding including Formas' 10.5 million SEK grant for Rights of Nature research (2020-2024), Vetenskapsrådet support for studies on Pentecostal migrants and equitable schooling, and HERA's 1.1 million euro grant for the Protestant Legacies in Nordic Law project (2016-2019), reflecting the significance of her collaborative research agenda.

She maintains active roles in multiple research ecosystems including the Center for Multidisciplinary Research (CRS) board and scientific council, the Impact of Religion initiative (2014-2020), and the Uppsala Forum for Democracy, Peace and Justice. Her institutional engagements extend to the Forum for Jewish Studies board and Institute for Educational Law management team, demonstrating commitment to translating academic research into societal impact through policy-relevant legal scholarship.