Education & Outreach
Lawcrosse delivers high-quality legal education and research for students and professionals at every stage of their career.
Lawcrosse’s founder and CEO, Johanna Jacobsson, PhD, is an adjunct law professor at IE Law School (Madrid) and visiting professor at several other universities and programs. She teaches, advises, and mentors students and professionals across undergraduate, graduate, and executive education programs in EU law, international trade law, and the legal profession. She is also an experienced public speaker and moderator. Johanna is a graduate of the University of Helsinki (BA, LLB, LLM) and the European University Institute (LLM, PhD).
Johanna’s research sits at the intersection of international trade law and regulated professional services. Her book, Preferential Services Liberalization: The Case of the European Union and Federal States (Cambridge University Press, 2019), is one of the first comprehensive analyses of how supranational and federal systems open up services markets — a line of inquiry that now drives her work on the regulatory frameworks shaping the future of professional services sectors, including the legal profession.
As an academic collaborator at IE University’s LawAhead Center on the Legal Profession — a pioneering research center backed by Spain’s leading law firms — she contributes to the center’s work evaluating the forces transforming legal services: technology adoption, talent acquisition, and cross-border expansion.
Alongside teaching and research, Lawcrosse creates online educational content, striving to make legal education more engaging and accessible to a wider audience. A central focus is the ethical integration of artificial intelligence into legal education.
Governance of Global Issues through International Trade Agreements – IE Explains
IE School Of Politics, Economics And Global Affairs
A 6-minute educational video explaining the basics on international trade agreements for IE School of Politics, Economics and Global Affairs by IE’s Publishing Department, 2020. (Public speaking and Education)
Comparative Law in Action Challenge
– a multimedia case
IE Law School
This multimedia case was prepared for IE Law School by IE Publishing Department in collaboration with Prof. Johanna Jacobsson as part of its innovative Comparative Law in Action Challenge – the first competition of its kind, created by IE Law School to foster positive change through education by bringing together students from top law schools. In this case, authored by Prof. Jacobsson, a multinational company called ‘Empathy Inc’, becomes the subject of controversy when it is revealed that its AI software has been used to oppress members of the political opposition in the state of Ballica. In this comprehensive case consisting of various videos and other materials, the students need to analyze issues relating to the application of international human rights standards to global business and their supply chains, relations between states and multinational companies, and litigation techniques to hold corporations responsible for violations of individual rights. The case was designed in a way that allows the students to have a double role as they advise both a big corporations and a small human rights NGO. This technique encourages them to come up with as complete arguments as possible and prepares them for the multitude of roles that the legal profession offers.