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Alezini Loxa has published Sustainability and EU Migration Law: Tracing the History of a Contemporary Concept on Cambridge University Press. The book is published Open Access with support from the LU book fund.Access the bookAlezini Ioxa's profile page in Research Portal
https://www.law.lu.se/article/alezini-loxa-publishes-sustainability-and-eu-migration-law - 2025-11-15
The Faculty of Law is releasing a new podcast about crime and punishment: ‘Kriminalsamtal - a slightly different podcast about crime and punishment’. The podcast is aimed at anyone who wants to know more about the criminal justice system and the thoughts and ideas behind criminal law. At a time when criminal policy is very loud and dominant in the public debate, there is reason to take a step back
https://www.law.lu.se/article/kriminalsamtal-new-podcast-crime-and-punishment - 2025-11-15
The search is on for 25 researchers from around the world in Lund University’s largest ever international recruitment drive. The main focus will be on AI research and other areas in which the University has a strategic focus. “In an uncertain world where free research and education are under intense pressure, Lund University is making its largest ever investment in international recruitment. The a
https://www.law.lu.se/article/lund-university-launches-largest-ever-global-recruitment-drive-researchers - 2025-11-15
Privacy International, a UK-based legal entity and international human rights organisation with a high profile in privacy rights issues, has appointed Professor Martin Scheinin as a member of its Board of Trustees. Professor Scheinin will take up his post on 1 May 2025 and will hold it for three years. He emphasises the importance of his research covering issues related to the right to privacy, in
https://www.law.lu.se/article/visiting-professor-martin-scheinin-elected-board-member-privacy-international - 2025-11-15
On 13 June, the World Maritime University (WMU) and the Faculty of Law at Lund University signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen academic and research collaboration in maritime law and policy, safety, oceans affairs, and marine environment protection. Signed by WMU President, Professor Maximo Q. Mejia, Jr. and Professor Henrik Wenander, Dean of the Faculty of Law at Lund Universi
https://www.law.lu.se/article/lund-university-and-world-maritime-university-signed-memorandum-understanding - 2025-11-15
Matilda Hernqvist, who graduated from the law programme in Lund in the spring semester of 2025, has been awarded the Swedish Copyright Association's SFU Prize. The SFU Prize in copyright and related rights is awarded every year. The prize money is SEK 25,000 and was awarded on 9 June at the association's spring closing ceremony. Matilda's thesis supervisor was Ulrika Wennersten. Title of the essay
https://www.law.lu.se/article/student-lund-wins-prize-her-essay-swedish-copyright-association - 2025-11-15
On 5 May 2025, a mock trial was held at the Faculty of Law in Lund, in a hypothetical prosecution of Stig Engström for the murder of Olof Palme. On the evening of 28 February 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot dead in central Stockholm as he was returning home from the cinema with his wife Lisbeth Palme. The killer ran into a dark alley and vanished.Thirty-four years later, in June 2
https://www.law.lu.se/article/mock-trial-against-stig-engstrom-murder-olof-palme - 2025-11-15
The board of the Einar Hansen Research Foundation has decided to appoint Professor Martin Sunnqvist as the recipient of the Einar Hansen Research Prize 2025. The board's motivation for the recipient of the Einar Hansen Research Prize 2025: "Sunnqvist is professor of legal history at the Faculty of Law at Lund University. He defended his thesis in 2014 on Constitutional Critical Judging. The Change
https://www.law.lu.se/article/recipient-einar-hansen-research-prize-2025 - 2025-11-15
The Judges Proposals Board has appointed Torvald Larsson, LL.D. and senior lecturer in public law, as a special member in cases concerning legality review at the Administrative Court in Malmö. The appointment is for the period from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2028. Legality review is a form of appeal against municipal decisions regulated in Chapter 13 of the Local Government Act (2017:725). In a
https://www.law.lu.se/article/torvald-larsson-appointed-special-member-administrative-court-malmo - 2025-11-15
Petra Holmberg, postdoc in medical law at the Faculty of Law, won the Research Grand Prix competition in Helsingborg on 7 October. In front of an audience of over 500 secondary school students, she presented her research on the risks of 80 per cent of Gen Z using chatbots to manage stress or anxiety. “It’s not surprising, AI feels simple and safe. But my research shows that it can be downright dan
https://www.law.lu.se/article/petra-holmberg-wins-forskar-grand-prix-competition - 2025-11-15
Professor Marko Milanovic is appointed as Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Chair in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from September 2025. The Faculty of Law is honoured and pleased to announce that Professor Mark Milanovic, University of Reading, has been appointed as Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Chair in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from September 2025 until August 2027, and affiliated to the Faculty
https://www.law.lu.se/article/professor-marko-milanovic-appointed-raoul-wallenberg-visiting-chair - 2025-11-15
Julia Björverud is one of this year's seven recipients of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' 2025 Dissertation Prize for outstanding dissertations. In its justification for the nomination, the Faculty of Law stated, among other things: "In her thesis, Julia Björverud examined how the Swedish principle of public access to official records has been handled by legislators during the period 1809–1
https://www.law.lu.se/article/julia-bjorverud-awarded-royal-swedish-academy-sciences-dissertation-prize - 2025-11-15
The Swedish government has appointed Vilhelm Persson, professor of public law at the faculty, as a member of the board of the Swedish Institute for Human Rights. He succeeds another of the faculty's professors, Titti Mattsson, whose term as a board member expires at the end of the year. The Swedish Institute for Human Rights is an independent government agency tasked with protecting and promoting
https://www.law.lu.se/article/vilhelm-persson-appointed-new-board-member-swedish-institute-human-rights - 2025-11-15
Marie Jacobsson, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law in Lund, has been awarded a Doctor of Science in Maritime Affairs honoris causa in recognition of outstanding services to the international maritime community at the World Maritime University (WMU) in Malmö. Until her retirement in 2023, Marie Jacobsson was an ambassador and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs' Legal Adviser on International
https://www.law.lu.se/article/honorary-doctorate-world-maritime-university - 2025-11-15
LL.M. Max Bodin, who graduated from the law program at Lund University in the spring term of 2025, has been awarded the YAS (Young Arbitrators Sweden) prize for the best thesis in arbitration law in Sweden. The title of the thesis is: The Jurisdiction of Arbitral Tribunals to Examine Set-Off Claims in International Arbitration. The prize amount is SEK 15,000 and was presented during a ceremony in
https://www.law.lu.se/article/lund-university-student-max-bodin-receives-award-his-thesis-arbitration-law - 2025-11-15
In Januari 2023, the Department of Service Management and Service Studies has changed name to the shorter version Department of Service Studies. With the name change, the department wants to convey clarity, professionalism and closeness to the research. The name change means that "Service management" disappears from the department's title. The Bachelor's and Master's programmes offered by the depa
https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-name-department-ism-has-become-ses - 2025-11-15
The Faculty of Social Sciences will during the autumn term 2023 elect a new dean, deputy dean and Faculty Board for the upcoming three-year term (1 January 2024 - 31 December 2026). The Faculty Nominating Committee now wishes to receive nominations to these positions no later than 20 April. Nomination letter The nomination letter below has been sent by e-mail to all staff at the Faculty of Social
The application process and assessment criteria have been revised for this year’s application. Lecturers, senior lecturers and professors on indefinite-term contracts, or associate senior lecturers, at the Faculty of Social Sciences are entitled to apply to the Faculty teaching academy to have their teaching skills assessed and be admitted as a Qualified Teaching Practitioner or Excellent Teaching
https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/applying-assessment-teaching-skills - 2025-11-15
This autumn, the faculty is again offering the course Gender and diversity in teaching and learning. The course is a part of the qualifying training in the field of teaching and learning in higher education for teaching staff at the Faculty of Social Sciences. It provides a space to analyse gender and diversity both within the university as an organisation and in teaching and learning situations i
https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-opportunity-take-course-gender-and-diversity - 2025-11-15
Now it is time for the renovation of Gamla lungkliniken. The building will be closed from 1 July 2023 to 31 March 2024. During the renovation, the house will get a new ventilation system and a slightly remodeled entrance facing north. In addition, individual workrooms will be refurbished and windows will be renovated. The building will be blocked off with a construction fence (see red marking on
https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/renovation-gamla-lungkliniken-building-g-1-july-2023-31-march-2024 - 2025-11-15
