Professor Mattsson's research is based on Pufendorf's theories that laws and state power should be used to protect citizens and ensure justice. She uses Martha Fineman's vulnerability theory, which advocates that society should recognize and address the vulnerability of the individual. This is to see how a strong and lawful state can act as a protective and supportive force.

One focus of her research is to examine the roles and duties that arise in a society and how society can achieve moral equality. She also touches on the role of the public in terms of responsibility for individual citizens. Another focus of Professor Mattsson's research is how state or legislative responsibility can be adapted to human vulnerability and human realities in the 21st century.

 - Now I have the space to engage in basic research in legal science, something that you rarely get external funding to do," says Titti Mattson. "My hope is to develop the legal theoretical understanding of people's dependence on society in a time of new living conditions, and where people's need for health care and care are two themes that I like to use as examples.

Titti Mattson is a professor of public law at Lund University and her research areas are social law, medical law, children's law, elder law and human rights.

About the Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Foundations Professorship in Memory of Samuel Pufendorf

In 2002, the Torsten Söderberg Foundation and the Ragnar Söderberg Foundation donated SEK 20 million for a professorship in memory of Samuel Pufendorf, a German jurist and theologian who was appointed to a professorship when Lund University was founded in 1666. Pufendorf was a pioneer of modern humanism and international law and believed that the natural state of man was peace. The professorship will promote research in the spirit of Pufendorf at Lund University, primarily in the fields of law, economics and political philosophy, and will be held for a maximum period of four years.

Previous holders: Christian Dahlman, Karin Aggestam, Gregor Noll, Håkan Hydén, Kjell Åke Modéer, Aleksander Peczenik.

Titti Mattsson, Lund University.

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