Our doctoral students work on various subjects spanning a range of overarching themes. All links lead to ongoing doctoral projects in the Research Portal. Sigrid Nikka: Straffskärpningar och straffrättens gränserSarah de Heer: Autonomous decision-making systems in precision medicine from placement on the market to use: challenges to and opportunities for the right to good administrationJohan Herma

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The 11th International Conference on Forensic Inference and Statistics will take place June 12-15, 2023 at Faculty of Law (Juridicum), Lund University, Sweden. Lund is a city in the most southern county of Sweden, 35 minutes by train from Copenhagen Airport in Denmark. This international conference - in short ICFIS2023 - unites lawyers, statisticians and forensic scientists in their interest in op

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The PhD thesis defence is a seminar where the doctoral student presents his or her thesis in public in the presence of an expert in the field from another university, known as the opponent. The opponent is officially appointed by the Faculty Board. The Faculty Board also appoints a chairman of the public defence and an examining board. The examining board evaluates the thesis and the candidate's d

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Law permeates all human activity, from matters on the level of the individual to issues of major societal, political and economic significance, nationally and internationally. Legal research affects and can improve people’s lives and societal development. As the complexity of the surrounding world increases, so do the demands on and the significance of our research. The urgent research issues of t

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Humanity is waging war on nature. This is suicidal. Nature always strikes back – and it is already doing so with growing force and fury. Biodiversity is collapsing. One million species are at risk of extinction. Ecosystems are disappearing before our eyes … Human activities are at the root of our descent toward chaos. But that means human action can help to solve it.  The above cry for action come

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EU law is also Swedish law, which means that it also forms an important part of our teaching and research. The EU law research environment includes topics in labour law, constitutional law, human rights, migration law, competition law and environmental law. This means that the research environment has a variety of experts who can contribute knowledge in different areas of EU law. Nordic Journal of

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The evaluation of the faculty's doctoral education began in the spring semester of 2019 and was completed in the autumn semester of 2020. The assessment took place partly through a self-evaluation and partly through peer review by external experts. Student participation took place through the participation of representatives from the Faculty of Law's doctoral student council.The Committee on Docto

https://www.law.lu.se/research/doctoral-studies/quality-assurance-and-quality-development-doctoral-education - 2025-01-09

The healthcare sector faces significant challenges in the coming years. There is an increased need for research with legal elements within the otherwise traditional medical and social sciences research. Particularly worrying is the changing population structure, which is expected to have significant consequences for society, not least because the consumption of care for the elderly population cons

https://www.law.lu.se/research/research-environments/health-law-research-centre - 2025-01-09

Opening hours in the library Monday-Friday: 8-20Saturday-Sunday: 9-17 LUBsearch Search among the digital books and articles available at Lund university. Databases A-Ö Databases useful in legal studies and research. How do I borrow books from the library? Library catalogue LUBcat Search among books available at Lund university libraries. Journals A-Ö Access to a selection of legal journals.  New s

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Human rights law is a broad area of research that addresses and critically examines issues and problems arising in ongoing efforts to secure full protection of human rights in different contexts, whether it is in the workplace, healthcare, or foreign affairs, and in relation to different actors (both states and non-state actors, such as corporations). The research area covers questions of how to p

https://www.law.lu.se/research/research-environments/human-rights-law - 2025-01-09

A large amount of people applied for asylum in Sweden during 2015 and the subsequent years. In many cases, this meant the beginning of a gradual integration into the Swedish society. Integration implicate mutual expectations of inclusion into the society. Within the next few years, the amount of people with permanent or temporary residence permit, who have not obtained Swedish citizenship, are lik

https://www.law.lu.se/research/research-environments/integration-and-law - 2025-01-09

Our research is based on two themes. We want to investigate how the judiciary treats people in vulnerable positions and how these people can make use of their legal rights. We are also interested in how the judicial system views individuals in relations to their context and to societal structures. One general inquiry is how the vulnerable subject is taken care of in regulation, organisation and tr

https://www.law.lu.se/research/research-environments/law-and-vulnerabilities - 2025-01-09

The Law, Theology & Culture research environment aims to bring researchers and students of the the Faculty of Law and of the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies into conversation on topics that are of interest to both institutions. If you would like to learn more about the seminar series or if you would like to join the seminar's e-mail list, please contact Valentin Jeutner, valentin [dot] j

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Legal history concerns the continuity and change of law in time and space. Why has law changed and developed to become what it is, and could the development have been different? What are the similarities and differences between different legal systems, and what are the historical explanations for these similarities and differences? These are questions that are analysed within legal history, and th

https://www.law.lu.se/research/research-environments/legal-history - 2025-01-09

LEVIC is a cross-disciplinary research group with researchers from law, philosophy, cognitive psychology and statistics. Our research concerns legal fact-finding, especially criminal evidence. We investigate empirically how legal decision-makers (judges or jurors) evaluate evidence, and we are particularly interested in cognitive bias and probabilistic fallacies.We also do research that aims to im

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We aim to address one of the most compelling political and legal issue that faces our society today – the obligation of states towards migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees. We are interested in all aspects of the challenges raised by the rights of people on the move, including their access to safe migration routes, access to fair asylum determination procedure, access to rights and integration po

https://www.law.lu.se/research/research-environments/migration-law - 2025-01-09

Business Law in Europe (PJA01) - online course Are you interested in doing business with EU countries? Then this is the programme for you! The programme consists of three separate distance learning courses, which you can also choose to take as a package. The programme is aimed at students, professionals, or simply interested in the European Union and European business law. No prior knowledge of la

https://www.law.lu.se/study/online-summer-courses/business-law-europe-15-credits - 2025-01-09

General contact information and opening hours Press and media contact Find staff Distance and Commissioned Education and E-learningDoctoral studentsEducational servicesFaculty and department managementFaculty libraryFaculty officeIT and InfrastructureInfrastructureReceptionResearchers and teachers

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The Norma Research Programme is an interdisciplinary research environment at the Faculty of Law, and a research centre affiliated with the Labour Law Research Network (LLRN). The focus is on the legal regulation of everyday life and social integration at national, EU, and international level, and on labour markets, social welfare, ageing societies, and families.The research environment includes a

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Hos studievägledningen kan du få hjälp med studieplanering och vägledning gällande exempelvis val av juridiska fördjupningskurser, studieuppehåll, tillgodoräknande av tidigare lästa kurser och information om olika stödåtgärder som finns för dina studier. Du är varmt välkommen att kontakta oss.Kontakta studievägledningenVia mejl: studievagledningen [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (studievagledningen[at]

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