Person

Professor
- Human Rights Studies
- Department of History
Contact information
E-mail lena.halldeniusmrs.luse
Phone +46 46 222 96 01
Room LUX:A213
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
I am professor of human rights studies. My academic background is in philosophy (PhD practical philosophy) and law. I teach human rights theory and methods and supervise Master- and PhD-students.
My research is in political philosophy and its early modern history, with emphasis on freedom and rights. I am interested in how moral concepts figure in political theory and how political values shape and are shaped by institutions and social change.
One of my research interests is the 18th-century feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. My book on her political philosophy is available in English (Mary Wollstonecraft and Feminist Republicanism) and in Swedish (Mary Wollstonecraft, feminismen och frihetens förutsättningar).
I also work on rights and socioeconomic inequality. My latest project in that field – Cash – concerns how the transition to a cashless economy impacts economically and socially vulnerable groups. The project is funded by Formas, the Swedish research council for sustainable development.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- Lund Human Rights Research Hub (research leader)
- Histories of Human Rights in the Nordic Countries (research leader)
- Liberty, Law and Leviathan (research leader)
- Mary Wollstonecraft and Feminist Republicanism (research leader)
- Human Rights and Economic Inequality (research leader)
Books (6)
- Halldenius, L., Berg, D., Larsson Heidenblad, D., Dirke, K. & Blennow, A. (2022). Bildningsboxen. Norstedts Förlag.
- Halldenius, L. (2016). Mary Wollstonecraft, feminismen och frihetens förutsättningar. Thales.
- Halldenius, L. (2015). Mary Wollstonecraft and Feminist Republicanism : Independence, Rights and the Experience of Unfreedom. The Enlightenment World, 30. Pickering & Chatto.
- Halldenius, L. (2011). Liberalism. Bokbox förlag.
- Halldenius, L. (2003). Liberalism. Bilda Förlag.
- Halldenius, L. (2001). Liberty Revisited. A Historical and Systematic Account of an Egalitarian Conception of Liberty and Legitimacy. Bokbox förlag. Dissertation.
Editorships (1)
Articles (22)
- Halldenius, L. (2022). Why limitarianism fails on its own premises : an egalitarian critique. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 25, 777-791. Springer.
- Halldenius, L. (2021). De Grouchy, Wollstonecraft, and Smith on Sympathy, Inequality, and Rights. Australasian Philosophical Review, 3, 381-391. Taylor & Francis.
- Halldenius, L. (2021). Den andra Rawls. Tidskrift för politisk filosofi, 25, 29-40. Thales.
- Halldenius, L. (2021). Revisiting Ancient and Modern Liberty : On de Dijn’s Freedom: An Unruly History. European Journal of Political Theory, 21, 197-207. SAGE Publications.
- Halldenius, L. (2020). Epistemisk orättvisa – en kritisk diskussion. Tidskrift för politisk filosofi, 24, 4-20. Thales.
- Halldenius, L. (2015). Kvinnor och feminism i filosofin : introduktion till temanumret. Tidskrift för politisk filosofi, 19, 1-4. Thales.
- Halldenius, L. (2015). Tre frågor om diskriminering. Provocatio, 63-77. Avdelningen för mänskliga rättigheter, Lunds universitet.
- Halldenius, L. (2014). Freedom Fit for a Feminist? On the Feminist Potential of Quentin Skinner's Conception of Republican Freedom. Redescriptions: Yearbook of Political Thought and Conceptual History, 17, 86-103. Helsinki University Press.
- Halldenius, L. (2014). Mary Wollstonecraft’s Feminist Critique of Property. On Becoming a Thief From Principle. Hypatia, 29, 942-957. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Johansson, V., Garwicz, M., Kanje, M., Halldenius, L. & Schouenborg, J. (2014). Thinking Ahead on Deep Brain Stimulation: An Analysis of the Ethical Implications of a Developing Technology. AJOB Neuroscience, 5, 24-33. Routledge.
- Reuter, M., Halldenius, L. & Coffee, A. (2014). Mary Wollstonecraft: Philosophy and Enlightenment. Hypatia, 29, 906-907. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Halldenius, L. (2012). Hobbes om frihet, lag och artificiella handlingar. Tidskrift för politisk filosofi, 16, 28-39. Thales.
- Halldenius, L. (2012). Liberty, Law and Leviathan. Of Being Free from Impediments by Artifice. Theoria: a Swedish Journal of Philosophy, 59, 1-20. Thales.
- Arrhenius, G., Brinck, I., Glüer-Pagin, K., Halldenius, L., Maurin, A. S., Tersman, F. & Wikforss, A. (2011). To the editor of Theoria. Theoria: a Swedish Journal of Philosophy, 77. Thales.
- Halldenius, L. (2011). Kant on Freedom and Obligation Under Law. Constellations, 18, 170-189. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Halldenius, L. (2010). Building Blocks of a Republican Cosmopolitanism: The Modality of Being Free. European Journal of Political Theory, 9, 12-30. SAGE Publications.
- Halldenius, L. (2007). Liberty and Law. Institutional Circumstances of Freedom. Redescriptions: Yearbook of Political Thought and Conceptual History, 11, 99-114. Helsinki University Press.
- Halldenius, L. (2007). Liberty, Law and Social Construction. History of Political Thought, 28, 696-708. Imprint Academic.
- Halldenius, L. (2007). The Primacy of Right. On the Triad of Liberty, Equality and Virtue in Wollstonecraft's Political Thought. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 15, 75-99. Routledge.
- Halldenius, L. (2005). Dissecting Discrimination. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 14, 455-463. Cambridge University Press.
- Halldenius, L. (2003). Locke and the Non-arbitrary. European Journal of Political Theory, 2, 261-279. SAGE Publications.
- Halldenius, L. (1998). Non-Domination and Egalitarian Welfare Politics. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 1. Springer.
Book chapters (24)
- Halldenius, L. (accepted/in press). Mary Wollstonecraft. In Detlefsen, K. & Shapiro, L. (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy. Routledge.
- Halldenius, L. (2022). Mary Wollstonecraft och revolutionen. In Berg, D., Halldenius, L., Larsson Heidenblad, D., Dirke, K. & Blennow, A. (Eds.) Bildningsboxen (pp. 1-43). Norstedts Förlag.
- Halldenius, L. (2022). Neo-Roman Liberty in the Philosophy of Human Rights. In Dawson, H. & de Dijn, A. (Eds.) Rethinking Liberty Before Liberalism. Cambridge University Press.
- Halldenius, L. (2020). Mänskliga rättigheter som motstånd. In Rahm, H., Dunér, D., Hidal, S. & Jonsson, B. (Eds.) Skrifter, I Pallas Athenas huvud : hundra år av humaniora. Makadam förlag.
- Halldenius, L. (2020). Political Theory. In Johnson, N. E. & Keen, P. (Eds.) Mary Wollstonecraft in Context (pp. 182-188). Cambridge University Press.
- Halldenius, L. (2019). Feminist Republicanism. In Bergès, S., Hunt Botting, E. & Coffee, A. (Eds.) Routledge Philosophical Minds, The Wollstonecraftian Mind (pp. 404-416). Routledge.
- Arvidsson, M., Halldenius, L. & Sturfelt, L. (2018). Inledning : Mänskliga rättigheter i språk, praktik och samhällets institutioner. In Arvidsson, M., Halldenius, L. & Sturfelt, L. (Eds.) Mänskliga rättigheter i samhället (pp. 7-14). Bokbox förlag.
- Halldenius, L. (2018). Filosofiska teorier om mänskliga rättigheter : en kritisk analys. In Halldenius, L., Arvidsson, M. & Sturfelt, L. (Eds.) Mänskliga rättigheter i samhället (pp. 35-54). Bokbox förlag.
- Halldenius, L. (2017). Discrimination and Irrelevance. In Lippert-Rasmussen, K. (Ed.) Routledge Handbooks in Applied Ethics, The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Discrimination (pp. 108-118). Routledge.
- Halldenius, L. (2017). Mary Wollstonecraft and Freedom as Independence. In Broad, J. & Detlefsen, K. (Eds.) Women and Liberty, 1600-1800 : Philosophical Essays. Oxford University Press.
- Halldenius, L. (2016). On the Use and Abuse of History in Philosophy of Human Rights. In Simonsen, K.-M. & Ross Kjærgård, J. (Eds.) Discursive Framings of Human Rights : Negotiating Agency and Victimhood. Routledge.
- Halldenius, L. (2016). Representation in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Political Philosophy. In Bergès, S. & Coffee, A. (Eds.) The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft (pp. 166-182). Oxford University Press.
- Halldenius, L. (2015). Action, Politics and Human Rights. In Wiesner, C., Roshchin, E. & Boilard, M.-C. (Eds.) In Debate with Kari Palonen (pp. 75-79). Nomos.
- Halldenius, L. (2013). The Political Conditions for Free Agency. The Case of Mary Wollstonecraft. In Skinner, Q. & van Gelderen, M. (Eds.) Freedom and the Construction of Europe. Volume II Free Persons and Free States (pp. 227-243). Cambridge University Press.
- Halldenius, L. (2012). Discrimination. In Friele, M., Kirloskar-Steinbach, M. & Dharampal-Frick, G. (Eds.) Intercultural Discourse - Key and Contested Concepts (pp. 247-255). Verlag Karl Alber.
- Halldenius, L. & Hume, D. (2012). David Humes politiska och ekonomiska essäer: Förord. Tankar om ett fullkomligt samhälle: Filosofiska essäer inom politik och ekonomi, 7-17. h:ström - Text & Kultur.
- Halldenius, L. (2011). Humes politiska filosofi. In Callergård, R. (Eds.) Förnuft, Känsla, Moral: Perspektiv på David Hume. Thales.
- Halldenius, L. (2011). Mångkulturalism och mänskliga rättigheter. In Andersson, D.-E. & Modée, J. (Eds.) Mänskliga rättigheter och religion (pp. 78-93). Liber.
- Halldenius, L. (2009). Liberty and its Circumstances – A Functional Approach. In de Bruin, B. & Zurn, C. (Eds.) New Waves in Political Philosophy (pp. 19-39). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Halldenius, L. (2008). Frihet och filosofi som handling. In Cronqvist, M. (Ed.) Hållbara värden. Årsbok från Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (pp. 63-80). Makadam förlag.
- Halldenius, L. (2008). The Tie that Binds: Cosmopolitan Obligation and the Primacy of Institutions. In Lettevall, R. & Klockar Linder, M. (Eds.) The Idea of Kosmopolis. History, Philosophy and Politics of World Citizenship (pp. 157-172). Södertörn Academic Studies.
- Halldenius, L. (2007). Genetic Discrimination. In Chadwick, R., Häyry, M., Arnason, V. & Arnason, G. (Eds.) The Ethics and Governance of Human Genetic Databases (pp. 170-180). Cambridge University Press.
- Halldenius, L. (2007). Svensk diskrimineringslag i filosofisk belysning. In Persson, J., Maurin, A.-S. & Egonsson, D. (Eds.) Insikt och handling (pp. 76-104), 22. Hans Larsson Samfundet.
- Halldenius, L. (2005). The Immorality of Emotional Response. Liberty and the Slavery Metaphor in Wollstonecraft’s Theory of Property. In Carlson, Å. (Eds.) Philosophical Aspects on Emotions. Thales.
Encyclopaedia entries (2)
- Halldenius, L. (submitted). Oppression, Dominance, and Power. In Thompson, W. R. (Ed.) Oxford Research Encyclopedia in Politics. Oxford University Press.
- Halldenius, L. (2019). Mary Wollstonecraft. In Sellers, M. & Kirste, S. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Springer.
Reports (1)
Reviews (2)
- Halldenius, L. (2022). Book Review : Radical Republicanism. Recovering the Tradition’s Popular Heritage. Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory, 25, 80-84. Helsinki University Press.
- Halldenius, L. (2019). Not Enough : Human Rights in an Unequal World. Global Intellectual History. Routledge.
Articles in specialist publications and popular press (4)
- Halldenius, L. (2019). Wollstonecraft och revolutionen. Anekdot. Det digitala bildningsmagasinet. Stockholms universitet.
- Halldenius, L. (2015). En proto-feminist. Modern filosofi, 1, 63-65. Vetenskapsmedia i Sverige AB, Vetenskapsmedia i Sverige.
- Halldenius, L. (2015). Mary Wollstonecraft : feministisk republikan. Historiskan : Sveriges första kvinnohistoriska tidning, 50-53. Historiskan, Historiskan.
- Halldenius, L. (2011). Populism och den retoriska striden om folket. Nya Argus, 104. Garantiföreningen för Nya Argus r.f..
Miscellaneous (1)
Supervision at Lund University (8)
- Nilsson, F. L. (2022). Självklart och oklart : Mänskliga rättigheter som kunskapsinnehåll i gymnasieskolan. Avdelningen för mänskliga rättigheter, Historiska institutionen, Lunds universitet. Dissertation.
- Sundkvist, E. (2022). Human Rights as Law, Language, and Space-Making : Women’s Rights Movement in Post-Revolutionary Egypt. MediaTryck Lund. Dissertation.
- Hongsaton Zackari, K. (2020). Framing the Subjects : Human Rights and Photography in Contemporary Thai History. MediaTryck Lund. Dissertation.
- Karlsson, A. (2017). Liberal Intellectuals and Human Rights in the Turkish Public Sphere : Contestation and Pragmatism from the 1990s to the AKP-era. Dissertation.
- Lindkvist, L. (2014). Shrines and Souls: The Reinvention of Religious Liberty and the Genesis of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Bokbox förlag. Dissertation.
- Bruce, A. (2014). Which Entitlements and for Whom? The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Ideological Antecedents. Anna Bruce anna.bruce@jur.lu.se. Dissertation.
- Johansson, V. (2013). Stimulating the Brain : Ethical Perspectives on Deep Brain Stimulation & Nano Scaled Brain Machine Interfaces. Dissertation.
- Brännström, L. (2009). Förrättsligande. En studie av rättens risker och möjligheter med fokus på patientens ställning. Bokbox förlag. Dissertation.
Administrative
- Member, Forskarutbildningsnämnden, Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology
Other tasks and qualifications
Contact person for Lund University's profile area "Human Rights in a Polarised World".
Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
Member of the Swedish Research Council's Scientific Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Supervision of phd-students in human rights studies. Have also supervised phd-projects in practical philosophy, jurisprudence, pedagogy, ethics, and international law.

Professor
- Human Rights Studies
- Department of History
Contact information
E-mail lena.halldeniusmrs.luse
Phone +46 46 222 96 01
Room LUX:A213
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30