About
I'm Kristina Schadek.
My work moves between law, justice, writing, research and design, and over time it has come down to one question: what does it mean to handle something well?
A person. A legal process. A piece of evidence. An idea. An object. A responsibility.
Handle with care
"Handle with care" has become the idea that connects everything I do.
Care is not a soft idea. It is a standard you can meet or fail, and for some people the difference is not a matter of comfort. It decides whether they are safe, believed and able to go on.
Both parts of my work grew from one experience: something precious was lost, and I had to fight to have it taken seriously. One became a question about institutions. The other became a question about objects.
Meaning is built from what we have lived through and what we choose to keep. That is why I move between law and jewellery, evidence and memory, systems and individual lives. Underneath, it is the same question: what are we entrusted with, and are we handling it well?
How I work
In law, care shows in how facts are examined, whether people are actually heard, how a decision is reasoned, and who carries responsibility when something goes wrong. In research and writing, it means not settling for the easy conclusion, and looking at a system from where the people moving through it are standing. In craft, it looks different: the material, the precision, where something came from, and whether it was made to last.
These fields can seem far apart. I'm most interested in the places where they meet.
My projects
Revelin
Revelin is a fine jewellery house with a focus on pearls. It comes at the same questions through objects, ownership, memory and craft, and through what we choose to preserve.
Discover Revelin →Bartolo
Bartolo develops ideas about legal-process quality: how justice systems can be studied, measured and improved, and how the gap between rights on paper and rights in practice can be understood.
Explore Bartolo →Rättsprocessforum
Rättsprocessforum is a space for discussion about legal process, professional practice and the quality of justice, bringing together research, practice and lived experience.
Visit Rättsprocessforum →The Equitable
The Equitable is my independent writing on law, justice, institutions, equality and responsibility, and also on jewellery, memory and craft, where the same questions appear in a different form. It is built on questions rather than certainty: how we measure the quality of justice, what fairness looks like from inside a legal process, what an object can carry, and what it would take to build systems that deserve our trust.
Read The Equitable →They are different projects, and I don't want them to become one thing. But they share a principle: what we are entrusted with matters, and so does how we handle it.
Background
I studied law and public administration in Croatia, then moved to Stockholm, where I built and ran a childcare business here and in London. It felt like my calling: I cared deeply about children's development. Then my life was upended, and I had to rebuild. Today I'm combining entrepreneurship with independent research and writing on legal process and justice, and my dream is to take that work international. I'm based in Stockholm.
Get in touch
I welcome conversations about legal-process quality, justice research, public discussion, writing, jewellery and collaboration, including across borders.