Jacob Öberg earned his PhD in European Law from the European University Institute in Florence (2014) and have since then been active as an associate professor in EU law at Örebro University and as a postdoctoral fellow in law at Lund University. He currently acts as Deputy Head of Department (for Education) at the School of Law, Psychology and Social Work at Örebro University. His research interests lie primarily in EU constitutional law and EU criminal law, including the federal dimension of EU law, multidimensional and contextual perspectives on EU law, legitimacy and justifications for EU legislative action and EU criminal policy. He has published widely in these areas in journals such as European Law Review, European Constitutional Law Review, Yearbook of European Law, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law and European Public Law. In addition to a monograph with Hart Publishing, he also published a co-edited anthology at Brill and book chapters at Cambridge University Press, Brill, and Thomson Reuters. He is a frequently hired peer reviewer for journals such as the Journal of Common Market Studies, the Journal of Contemporary European Studies, European Law Journal and the Journal of European Risk Regulation. He recently acted as a sole guest editor for a special issue titled ‘EU Agencies in Transnational Criminal Enforcement: From a Coordinated Approach to an Integrated EU Criminal Justice’ which was published in the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Law Journal and a member of the Steering Group of the Swedish Network of European Legal Studies.