Elena Namli

Elena Namli is Professor of Ethics at the Faculty of Theology (Uppsala University). She is President of Societas Ethica (2021-2024). Societas Ethica

Her publications include Future(s) of the Revolution and the Reformation (Palgrave 2019), Etik (Lund 2019), Human Rights as Ethics, Politics, and Law (Uppsala 2014), Mänskliga rättigheter i det offentliga Sverige (Studentlitteratur, Lund 2017).

See also a short presentation in Swedish https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/kanal/515/video/9741

Elena Namli is Professor of Ethics at the Faculty of Theology (Uppsala University). She teaches Ethics at the Faculty of Theology and supervises several doctoral projects (in Ethics).

Her current major project is entitled Critical resources in soft legal positivism. The aim of the project is to scrutinize the claim on behalf of soft legal positivism that positivity of modern law allows for politically progressive moral critique of law. Different perspectives on law and politics are scrutinized, but the particular focus of this study is how morality – conventional as well as critical – is interpreted and related to concepts of law and politics in various forms of soft legal positivism. To suggest an understanding of morality and ethics that strengthens emancipatory potential of the critique of law – political as well as immanent to legal practice – is the most important intention of the project.

Namli's publications include Future(s) of the Revolution and the Reformation (Palgrave 2019), Etik (Studentlitteratur 2019), Human Rights as Ethics, Politics, and Law (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Uppsala 2014), Mänskliga rättigheter i det offentliga Sverige (Studentlitteratur, Lund 2017), “Orthodox Theology, Politics, and Power” in Stoeckl, Gabriel, and Papanikolaou (eds.): Political Theologies in Orthodox Christianity (Bloomsbury, London 2017).

Namli is fluent in Swedish, English, and Russian and has published extensively in all three languages.