Curriculum vitae Svante O. Johansson

1985-06-30

Degree in Business and Administrative Law (University of Gothenburg)

1986-06-12

Bachelor of Laws (Lund University)

1986-11-01 - 1989-04-31

Notary qualification at Trollhättan District Court

1989-05-01

Admitted to the bench of the Court of Appeal for Western Sweden

1990-09-15 - 1991-04-24

Administrative Fiscal Officer at the Court of Appeal for Western Sweden

1992-12-08 - 2003-12-31

Associate judge at the Court of Appeal for Western Sweden

1992-12-08 - 1994-06-30

Director of Studies and Acting Senior Lecturer, Department of Law, University of Gothenburg

1994-06-30 - 1994-10-01

Assessor at Gothenburg District Court with responsibility for the estate inventory unit

1994-10-01 - 1996-08-25

Secretary of the Committee on Nomination Rights and Constituencies (SOU 1995:143) and (SOU 1996:66)

1996-04-01 - 2006-12-31

Deputy member of the Disciplinary Board at Chalmers University of Technology

1996-08-01 - 1997-07-31

Legal Adviser at the Ministry of Justice

1996-11-01 - 1997-05-30

Expert in the Referendum Inquiry (SOU 1997:56)

1997-07-01 - 1998-10-01

Appointed Deputy Dispatcher in Sweden

1997-00-00 -

Member of the editorial board of Nordiske domme i sjøfartsanliggender

1997-08-01 - 2001-09-08

Nordic Research Fellow at the Nordic Institute of Law, University of Oslo

1998-01-01 - 2000-06-00

Secretary and expert in the Council for the Evaluation of the 1998 Elections (SOU 1998:136), (SOU 1999:92) and (SOU 2000:81)

1998-10-01 - 2011-08-31

Appointed by the Government to the Swedish Dispatch Service

1998-09-01 - 2011-08-31

Board member of the European Association of Dispatchers (AIDE) from 2007 AMD

1999-00-00 - 2016-12-09

Member of the Board of the Kerstin Wijk-Broström Foundation

1999-06-01 - 2010-12-31

Member of the Shipowners' Committee

2000-02-17 - 2001-02-01

Special investigator in the Electoral Technology Commission (SOU 2000:125)

2000-06-01 - 2013-04-16

Board member and Chairman of the Swedish Maritime Law Association

2000-06-01 - 2013-04-16

Editorial co-ordinator for the Maritime Law Society's publication series

2001-01-01 - 2011-08-31

Director of the Maritime Law Academy at the Gothenburg School of Economics

2001-03-01 - 2002-05-30

Expert in the Constitutional Inquiry (SOU 2001:19), (SOU 2001:65), (SOU 2001:99) and (SOU 2002:42)

2001-09-08

Doctor of Law (University of Gothenburg)

2002-09-03

Admitted as unpaid associate professor of law at the University of Gothenburg

2003-06-01 - 2004-11-19

Expert in the 2003 Electoral Law Committee (SOU 2004:111)

2003-07-01 - 2011-01-01

Member of the Research Board at the Department of Law, University of Gothenburg

2003-08-21 - 2004-09-01

Special investigator in the Inquiry into the transport of dangerous goods (SOU 2004:87)

2004-04-26 - 2007-06-30

Board member of the Arbitration Club in Gothenburg

2004-11-01 - 2006-03-01

Special investigator in the BEX inquiry (SOU 2006:16)

2004-12-22 - 2006- 03-01

Expert in the enquiry on tonnage tax (SOU 2006:20)

2005-07-01 - 2011-08-31

Holder of the Torsten Pettersson Chair in Maritime Law and other Transport Law, University of Gothenburg

2005-10-01 - 2011-08-31

Coordinator for the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, in the Lighthouse project

2006-01-01 - 2009-06-30

Deputy Head of Department, Department of Law, University of Gothenburg

2006-07-01 - 2011-01-01

Chairman of the Research Committee, Department of Law, University of Gothenburg

2006-09-28 - 2011-08-31

Member of the faculty proposal and associate professorship committee at the School of Business, GU

2007-01-01

Working member of the Royal Society of Science and Letters in Gothenburg

2007-05-01 - 2011-08-31

Professor II, Nordic Institute of Maritime Law, University of Oslo

2007-09-30 - 2009-11-04

President of the International Association of Dispatchers (AMD, founded in 1961 as AIDE)

2007-10-01 - 2009-06-31

2010-07-31 - 2011-08-31

Board member of the Lighthouse Project Foundation

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2008-01-00 - 2011-08-31

Member of the editorial board Pointlex, Infotorg

2008-01-00 - 2011-08-31

Leader of the trusteeship following Director Francke's project in commercial law

2008-01-01 - 2021-12-31

Deputy member of the Board of the Nordic Institute of Law

2009-08-15 - 2010-08-15

Visiting Professor at McGill University, Montreal (QC)

2010-10-28 - 2011-08-31

Swedish member of the editorial board of the Restatement of the Nordic Law of Contract

2010-12-16 - 2012-03-06

Expert in the Inquiry on liability and insurance obligation in maritime transport (SOU 2012:8) The Athens Regulation and the Insurance Directive in Swedish law

2011-01-01 - 

Member of the editorial board of the journal Mr Marius(including the annual edition Simply)

2011-01-01 - 2011-08-31

Member of the Advisory Committee on Aid to Maritime Transport

2011-04-01 - 2012-01-01

Academic member of the Board of Directors of The Vinge Scholarship for the best business law essay

2011-07-01 -

Member of the Academic Council of the student journal Legal publication

2011-09-01 - 2025-08-31

Justice of the Supreme Court of Sweden

2013-01-01 - 2025-06-02

Member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Harry Axelsson Iohnson Foundation for Legal Research

2013-03-15- 2017-03-22

Vice Chairman of the Insurance Law Association, Stockholm

2013-08-29 - 2015-03-04

Special investigator of a modern regulation of passenger and freight transport, the railway transport inquiry (SOU 2014:26 and SOU 2015:9)

2015-11-02 - 2016-11-01

Special investigator of faster re-election and strengthened protection of election secrecy (SOU 2016:71)

2016-03-03 -2023-03-26

Deputy chairman of the Electoral Review Board elected by Parliament

2016-03-03 -2022-10-11

Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Appeals Board elected by Parliament

2016-12-26 - 2018-07-31

Special investigator on the question of whether Sweden should accede to the Rotterdam Rules (SOU 2018:60)

2017-11-13 -

Member of the Editorial Board of Legal Journal

2019-01-01 - 2021-12-31

Substitute for a member of the Judicial Board

2020-01-01 -

Board member of the Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law

2020-01-01 -

Member of the Board of Directors of Stiftelsen Juridiska Biblioteket i Stockholm

2020-01-07 - 2021-03-31

Exchange programme at the Supreme Administrative Court

2021-12-22 - 2023-06-20

Special investigator in the Travel Guarantee System Inquiry

2022-01-01 - 2023-09-01

Member of the Judicial Council

2022-09-01 -

External Chairman of the General Complaints Board

2022-10-11 - 2023-03-26

Chairman of the Parliamentary Appeals Board elected by Parliament

2023-01-01 -

Member of the Council of the Department of Maritime Law, Nordic Institute of Maritime Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo

2023-03-26 -

Chairman of the Electoral Review Board elected by Parliament

2023-12-00 -

Board member of the Juridikbok.se foundation

2024-02-24 - 2025-03-01

Replacement for the Chair of the Research Misconduct Review Board

2024-07-01 -

Board member of the Edvard Cassel Foundation, which co-manages the foundation together with the Hans Thornstedt Memorial Foundation and the Lars Hjerner Foundation for Legal Research

2024-07-01 -

Board member of the Tore Almén Memorial Foundation

2024-10-25 -

Member of the editorial committee of the Maritime Law Society's publication series

2025-03-01 -

Chairman of the Swedish Research Misconduct Board (Npof)