The subject of Professor Jänterä-Jareborg's research is international family law, and she has focused in particular on analyzing the relationship between the three sets of rules on jurisdiction, choice of law, and recognition and enforcement. In other words, the international jurisdiction of courts, the choice of applicable law and the effect of foreign judgments.

She demonstrates how the choice-of-law system has defeated the purpose of the increasingly common mandatory civil law rules protecting the so-called weaker party. She also shows how a lack of interaction between recognition rules and conflict-of-law rules can invite circumvention of limitations on the recognition and enforcement of foreign maintenance decisions.

Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg critically analyzes the development of European international family law against the background that countries' legal systems may be at different stages of development. She has actively participated in the European debate on the development of family law in the EU and has been a pioneer in the Nordic countries in this field. Her writings have had an influence on developments.

The Söderberg Prize in Law 2013 was awarded at a ceremony at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Academy of Sciences on May 30.

Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg
Professor Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg was born in 1954. After obtaining her doctorate in Uppsala in 1989 with a thesis entitled "Party autonomy and the legal status of the surviving spouse, a study of international private law", she has worked mainly at Uppsala University, in parallel with extensive international work. In 1998 she was appointed Professor of Private International Law and Procedure at Uppsala University, where she is still active. She has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hague Academy of International Law since 2005, a foreign member of the Finnish Science Society and a foreign member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences since 2008. 

Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg, UU