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Here is a list of our partner universities. AustriaUniversität WienAustraliaUniversity of Western AustraliaBelgiumGhent UniversityKU LeuvenUC LouvainUniversity of AntwerpBrazilFundação Getulio Vargas Rio de Janeiro Law SchoolCanadaSchulich School of Law of Dalhousie UniversityMcGill UniversityOsgoode Hall Law School of York UniversityQueen's University at Kingston Faculty of LawUniversity of Saska

https://www.law.lu.se/study/exchange-studies/partner-universities - 2026-05-21

Once you have completed all your courses and all the final grades are reported by your lecturers into the student register Ladok, you need to apply for the degree certificate. It is issued free of charge upon request and it is written in both English and Swedish.Lund University issues digital degrees. If your application for a degree certificate is approved, you will be notified by email. You can

https://www.law.lu.se/study/masters-programmes/apply-your-degree-certificate - 2026-05-21

There are as many stories about being a doctoral student as there are doctoral students. Here, some of them share their stories. We also get to hear the supervisor's perspective. Sofia Åkerman, PhD student Sofia, what led you to choose to pursue a doctoral education?   – When I had just graduated and was faced with choosing a career path, I was a single parent with two young children in preschool.

https://www.law.lu.se/research/doctoral-studies/being-doctoral-student - 2026-05-21

We offer doctoral students a structured and effective education through individual study plans, supervision, and mandatory courses. Individual Study PlanThe individual study plan includes a timeline for the doctoral student's education, information about supervision arrangements, description of commitments for both the student and the board, and other factors necessary to ensure an efficient educa

https://www.law.lu.se/research/doctoral-studies/when-you-are-admitted - 2026-05-21

Alumni Honorary Doctorates Consultative Opinions

https://www.law.lu.se/external-engagement - 2026-05-21

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

https://www.law.lu.se/research/doctoral-studies/phd-thesis-projects - 2026-05-21

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

https://www.law.lu.se/11th-international-conference-forensic-inference-and-statistics-icfis-2023 - 2026-05-21

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

https://www.law.lu.se/research/phd-thesis-defence - 2026-05-21

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

https://www.law.lu.se/research/research-environments - 2026-05-21

Environmental Law Research Group at Lund University brings together scholars working across disciplines to address some of the most pressing legal challenges of our time, including climate change, biodiversity loss, environmental degradation, and the governance of natural resources.The Environmental Law Research Group serves as the core platform for LUCEL (Lund University Centre for Environmental

https://www.law.lu.se/research/research-environments/environmental-law-research-group - 2026-05-21

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

https://www.law.lu.se/research/research-environments/eu-law-research-group - 2026-05-21

The quality of education is evaluated every six years. The most recent evaluation of doctoral education at the Faculty of Law took place in 2019-2020. A comprehensive self-assessment report (completed on 22 January 2020) formed the basis for an external review conducted by Professor Inger Johanne Sand, University of Oslo, and Professor Henrik Palmer Olsen, University of Copenhagen. They completed

https://www.law.lu.se/research/doctoral-studies/quality-assurance-and-quality-development-doctoral-education - 2026-05-21

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 - 2026-05-21

Opening hours in the library Monday-Friday: 8-20Saturday-Sunday: 9-17Summer opening hours 8 June - 16 August:Mon-Fri 9 -16Sat-Sun closed Search tool Finn Search among printed and digital books and articles available at Lund university. Databases A-Ö Databases useful in legal studies and research. Finn - the libraries' search tool From 1 October you search in the printed and digital collections tha

https://www.law.lu.se/library - 2026-05-21

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 - 2026-05-21

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 - 2026-05-21

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 - 2026-05-21

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

https://www.law.lu.se/research/research-environments/law-theology-and-culture - 2026-05-21

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 - 2026-05-21

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

https://www.law.lu.se/research/research-environments/law-evidence-and-cognition-levic - 2026-05-21