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7,5 credits Bioinformatics, the application of computational methods to biological and biomedical problems, is a rapidly growing field. A large amount of data is being generated in the post genomic era through research in genomics, proteomics, and structural biology. It is therefore crucial that modern biochemists and biologists have knowledge of bioinformatics.This hands on course will give you a

https://www.biologyeducation.lu.se/education/courses/advanced-level-courses/dna-sequencing-informatics-ii-binp29 - 2025-12-15

15 credits The course Ecotoxicology is aiming to provide understanding and practical knowledge of the fate, uptake and effects of anthropogenic pollutants in the environment. We study and apply ecotoxicological theories, models, and common methods and approaches concerning: fate of pollutants in the environment using fugacity based multimedia partitioning models; uptake and accumulation using mode

https://www.biologyeducation.lu.se/education/courses/advanced-level-courses/ecotoxicology-bior41 - 2025-12-15

15 credits The central topic of the course is evolutionary theory and its ecological applications. We will focus on processes at both gene and individual level, with an emphasis on animals. The course is divided into different parts based on subject content. Evolutionary ecology. We start with the basics of Darwin's theory of evolution. Thereafter, we discuss central concepts such as natural and s

https://www.biologyeducation.lu.se/education/courses/advanced-level-courses/animal-ecology-bior91 - 2025-12-15

15 credits In this advanced course, you will learn how to reconstruct evolutionary history and test evolutionary hypotheses using a range of data and methods. You will also learn how evolutionary biology can be applied to meet outstanding challenges in medicine, conservation, biotechnology and sustainable development. The course is mandatory on the MSc programme in Evolutionary Biology.Course desc

https://www.biologyeducation.lu.se/education/courses/advanced-level-courses/evolutionary-biology-methods-and-applications-bior90 - 2025-12-15

15 credits Evolution affects biology at all levels – from genes to ecosystems. You will learn to analyse and understand the evolutionary processes that give rise to novelty, adaptation and diversity. In doing so you will learn how to unravel the evolutionary history of biological systems. The course is the first course on the MSc programme in Evolutionary Biology.Understanding evolution requires t

https://www.biologyeducation.lu.se/education/courses/advanced-level-courses/evolutionary-biology-patterns-and-processes-bior89 - 2025-12-15

15 credits Course description Why study immunology? Immunology is the study of the different biological structures and processes that together make up the immune system. The immune system plays a crucial role in our life by defending us from microorganisms and other parasites that might cause disease. In addition, the immune system provides protection against tumours. On the other hand, malfunctio

https://www.biologyeducation.lu.se/education/courses/advanced-level-courses/immunology-bior85 - 2025-12-15

Graduate Level (Second Cycle). Autumn Semester. SOLP01, Introduction to Sociology of Law, 15 credits The course aims at providing an in-depth knowledge of classical and modern theories of sociology of law and explaining how these theories have been used to define specific areas of research and to create research traditions in sociology of law.The course is divided into three parts (or modules).Mod

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/education/stand-alone-courses/introduction-sociology-law - 2025-12-15

Learn to view law from another perspective Lund is the only university in Scandinavia and Europe to host a complete training in Sociology of Law from undergraduate through to professional degrees. Studying Sociology of Law in Lund will give you unique and valuable competence helping you in your future career. Lund university is proud to offer sociology of law at all levels up to Master and profess

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/education - 2025-12-15

Graduate Level (Second Cycle). Spring Semester. SOLM02, Sociology of Law: Master's (Two Years) Thesis, 30 credits The course is also offered as part of the Master's Program in Sociology of Law (SASOL). The course involves students independently designing and completing a research project within the discipline of sociology of law. The student is to identify a relevant issue from within the discipli

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/education/stand-alone-courses/masters-two-years-thesis - 2025-12-15

Graduate Level (Second Cycle). Spring Semester. SOLM12, Sociology of Law: Master's (One Year) Thesis, 15 credits A Master’s thesis is a scientific research project of limited scale that is intended to exhibit the student’s capacity to work independently and carry out research. The intension of the thesis is to make a genuine contribution of new knowledge, written in the genre of scientific researc

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/education/stand-alone-courses/masters-one-year-thesis - 2025-12-15

CRE-AI is a two year postdoc project (Sociology of Law, Univeristy of Lund, Sweden, Feb 2019-2021) on the legal and societal implications of so-called creative or generative Artificial Intelligence, notably Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). By blurring the distinction between fake and real ('deepfakes'), and its capacity to compose convincing new variations on existing patterns, generative A

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/cre-ai-legal-and-societal-implications-generative-machine-learning-aka-creative-artificial - 2025-12-15

The research project ”Socio-legal study on the public’s sense of justice and criminal injuries compensation. A follow-up.” It is a longitudinal study in which a few central results from the PhD dissertation “Socio-legal study on the public’s sense of justice and criminal injuries compensation” is followed up after approximately ten years. The aim is primarily to investigate how survey respondents

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/socio-legal-study-publics-sense-justice-and-criminal-injuries-compensation-follow - 2025-12-15

The demographic transition of society and new technology contribute to exponential accumulation of micro-data in healthcare registers. Novel usage of artificially intelligent decision aids, applied on the Swedish register infrastructure, holds promises for improved quality and efficiency of healthcare. Focussing on cardiometabolic diseases, AIR Lund will critically assess the added value of machin

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/air-lund-artificially-intelligent-use-registers - 2025-12-15

Digitalization enables machines to make, or contribute to, ever more complex decisions with ever higher stakes. This imposes the question of legal responsibility for digitalized decision-making on us all. Our project inquires whether digitalization is a threat to long-established models of legal thinking, reasoning and adjudicating, and, if so, why that is and what can be done about it. Our focus

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/digitalization-and-legal-responsibility - 2025-12-15

This project aims to examine undocumented labour migrants’ legal culture and socio-legal integration in a politically hybrid regime. The project uses the case of Russia, a hybrid political regime and the world’s second largest recipient of labour migrants, to investigate how undocumented migrants negotiate and manoeuvre around the restrictive socio-legal environment through producing new ways of i

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/migration-shadow-economy-and-parallel-legal-orders-russia - 2025-12-15

Roma victims in Swedish criminal courts. The Swedish legal model is historically, and according to traditional jurisprudence, characterized as monocentric and uniform, tightly connected to the nation-state. This legal identity is challenged by an increasingly diverse contemporary legal situation, with the development of a multicultural, globalized and pluralistic society.Encounters between Roma le

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/romas-victims-swedish-criminal-courts - 2025-12-15

The project’s objective is to study the strategies employed by three businesses (Telia Sonera, Lundin Petroleum and Stora Enso) when defending themselves against allegations of crime. Is it possible to distinguish differences in the companies’ defence strategies across different periods of time, in different forums and in relation to different target groups? How may institutional and social struct

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/business-usual-corporate-defence-strategies-against-accusations-crime - 2025-12-15

- Adjudicating Islamic Family Law in Egypt: Continuity and Rupture A post-doctoral research project focusing on adjudication of Muslim marriage and divorce law by Egyptian courts before and after the 2011 revolution. More generally, the research focuses on the intersection between law, religion, and gender in this field. The overall aim of the project is to contribute to the scholarly literature o

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/islamic-law-egypt - 2025-12-15

- Insights from a Post-Soviet Context This is a study on the multilevel orders of corruption. The project-administrating organisation is the Department of Sociology of Law, Lund University. The overall purpose of the project is to further contribute to the global and national efforts of understanding and counteracting corruption and its societal implications. The project challenges the conventiona

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/multilevel-orders-corruption - 2025-12-15

consequences for freedom of speech and democracy A majority of the early scientific research on the internet had, rather uncritically, high hopes for the new technology’s potential to advance democratic development in society. Today we know that the internet also poses serious challenges to the democratic legal state. One such challenge are threats and hatred aimed at journalists. This occurs to s

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/hate-and-threats-against-journalists - 2025-12-15