Ingrid HelmiusVisiting Doctor of Laws and Senior LecturerUppsala University, LL.M. Professor Ingrid Helmius is a visiting faculty member from Sweden's Uppsala University Faculty of Law. She joined the Law School in fall 2009 and teaches European Human Rights. Professor Helmius received her LL.M. in 1992 from Uppsala University, then worked at the National Police Board and taught law at the Police College in Stockholm. She returned to Uppsala University to complete her LL.D. and is now a senior lecturer on public law and administrative law. In her dissertation, "The Police Legal Authorities in Secret Surveillance," she analyzed how the Swedish constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights limit the use of power and other measures by police and public authorities. Her current research continues an emphasis on those issues and human rights. In one project, she is examining corruption and governing bodies in Swedish and European law, and in another project she is scrutinizing public authorities' cooperation with private associations. Her most recent article, "The Principle of Proportionality," which deals with public intervention in private spheres, was recently published in the Uppsala Law Faculty anthology, General Principles of Public Law (in Swedish). In spring 2009, the Nordic Council of Ministers appointed Professor Helmius its secretary and charged her with writing a public report on legal authorities in the Nordic countries. |
