Ann-Sophie Sallander

Senior Lecturer

Department of Law

Telephone

+46 31-786 15 19

+46 704-07 22 90

Mail

ann-sophie.sallander@law.gu.se

Visiting address

Vasagatan 1

41124 Göteborg

Room number

C507

Postal address

Box 650

40530 Göteborg

About Ann-Sophie Sallander

I have been part of the Law Department since 2014 and I am an associate professor in public law.

My research is challenge-driven and related to society's preparedness for, and learning of, accidents in close connection to the transport of dangerous goods. The research is carried out in close collaboration with many different public authorities and private actors in the transport sector. A special focus is given to safety advisers for the transport of dangerous goods and I have for example written a book together with Urban Nuldén: The Safety Adviser Dangerous Goods Transport - A Key to Increased Safety (Jure, 2022). The research issues are complex and cover an extensive area, and therefore very suitable for interdisciplinary collaboration, where I take my starting point in public law. I believe that a genuinely interdisciplinary approach to research contributes to a broader understanding of research issues and provides new opportunities.

I defended my thesis in 2013 on mutual agreements according to tax treaties (JIBS, 2013). The purpose of such agreements is to avoid international double taxation. The legal difficulties that arise in connection with tax treaties are mainly due to the fact that the treaties constitute an international phenomenon, designed by the OECD, which must be adapted to and applied to a national, already existing legislative system. In 2015, I also published a book on the interpretation and application of tax treaties (Jure, 2015). The book described the entire chain from initiative to a completed tax agreement with a focus on interpretation and application. The starting point was the OECD's model tax treaty on income and capital, where each article in the model treaty was commented on.

Although the starting point of my research was in international tax law, I gradually became more and more interested in public law. It was in the field of tension between the international tax treaties and national law that the most interesting constitutional issues arose. For example, hierarchical issues of legal sources and materials, and issues related to the authority to issue binding regulations, are close to my heart, as is the free movement within EU law. Nowadays, I also find the most interesting issues in the borderland between different areas of law and other subjects.

My ambition is to continue to tackle societal challenges in the form of safety problems, preferably in combination with dangerous goods transports. The research will continue to be interdisciplinary, close to practice, empirical and based on public law.

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Research areas

Public Law
International Tax Law
EU Law

Research in progress

Learning from Incidents, 2023.01.01-2024.12.31, with Urban Nuldén
Dangerous Twin – Exploring Emerging Technologies for Safe and Sustainable Transport of Dangerous Goods, 2025.01.01-2025.12.31, with Urban Nuldén and Ylva Hård af Segerstad

Teaching areas

Public Law
EU Law

Selected publications

Ann-Sophie Sallander, Urban Nuldén, Säkerhetsrådgivare för transport av farligt gods - En nyckel till ökad säkerhet, Jure, 2022

Therese Bäckman, Thomas Erhag, Jonas Flodén, Lars-Göran Malmberg, Pär Meiling, Urban Nuldén, Kalevi Pessi, Ann-Sophie Sallander, Johan Woxenius, Säkrare transporter av farligt gods genom transparent informationshantering och samverkan, Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap, 2021

Ann-Sophie Sallander, Urban Nuldén, HD om författningstext på annat språk än svenska - Återverkningar även för IMDG-koden?, Förvaltningsrättslig tidskrift, 2020

Ann-Sophie Sallander, Skatteavtal: om tolkning och tillämpning, Liber Förlag, 2015

Ann-Sophie Sallander, Ömsesidiga överenskommelser enligt skatteavtal, JIBS Dissertation Series 089/2013