In a first article within framework of the project published in the European Constitutional Law Review (2020) ‘Trust in the Law? Mutual Recognition as a Justification to Domestic Criminal Procedure ’, he analysed the normative basis for harmonising national criminal procedure law.The final results will be published as a monograph with the title’ The Normative Foundations for EU Criminal Justice: Powers, Limits and Justifications' in the Modern Studies in European Law series at Hart Publishing  (during autumn 2023).

Jacob Öberg earned his PhD in European Law from the European University Institute in Florence (2014). His research interests lie primarily in EU constitutional law and EU criminal law, including; (1) multidisciplinary and contextual perspectives on EU law, (2) theories of EU integration (3) the federal dimension of EU law, and (4) the Union's criminal policy and its development under the Lisbon Treaty. 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 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.