Published 13 September 2022 The research publisher Frontiers has appointed Senior Professor Håkan Hydén as Special Chief Editor for the sociology of law section of Frontiers in Sociology. Hydén became a professor of sociology of law in 1988. His main research interest relates to norms and what motivates people to act. He has also done comparative studies of legal norms, cyber norms, and social nor

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Published 23 September 2022 On Friday, September 23, Davor Vuleta ended his nine-year doctoral education with a successful defence of his thesis "Law and Social Exclusion: The functions and dysfunctions of the Swedish legal system in light of overindebtedness among immigrants". Davor Vuleta is one of four Swedish Enforcement Authority (SEA) employees accepted as PhD students at the Sociology of La

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By theo [dot] hagman-rogowski [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Theo Hagman-Rogowski) - published 19 October 2022 Since the invasion of Ukraine, Central Asian migrant workers in Russia have seen fewer job opportunities and lower salaries. Among those trying their luck elsewhere, Turkey has become a popular alternative, especially for women. Sociologists of law Rustamjon Urinboyev and Sherzod Eraliev

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Published 26 October 2022 Dahlstrand is a researcher and senior lecturer at the Sociology of Law Department at Lund University. Photo: Kristinn Ingvarsson At the end of September, Karl Dahlstrand visited Iceland to present at the international conference "Recognising Sexual Violence: Developing Pathways to Survivor-Centred Justice", organised by the University of Iceland. Karl Dahlstrand has studi

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Published 2 November 2022 The lecturer at this year's Reza Banakar Memorial Seminar is Susan S. Silbey, Professor in Humanities, Sociology and Anthropology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Professor of Behavioral and Policy Sciences at MIT's business school Sloan School of Management. Professor Silbey's lecture, "Pragmatic Regulation: Governing Inside the House of Science", will

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Published 14 November 2022 Most of the grant goes to Isabel Schoultz's study of the strategies used by the parties in the upcoming Lundin Energy trial. About a quarter of the money is awarded to Rustamjon Urinboyev to write about Central Asian Muslim prisoners in Russian jails. The Riksbank's Jubilee Fund allocates a total of SEK 6 261 500 to the Sociology of Law Department. More than 4.8 million

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Published 20 January 2023 Anna Lundberg receives SEK 145 777 (about EUR 13 250) from the Lund University Sustainability Fund for the project "Legal competence for the right to have rights" (translation from Swedish). The project aims to create a model for providing information and advice on labour, migration and social law and how these areas of law interact and affect each other. The target group

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Published 3 February 2023 In his current research project, Sherzod Eraliev investigates the conditions of life and work for some of the thousands of undocumented Uzbeks operating within the Swedish shadow economy. The governmental agency Statistics Sweden put the number of Uzbek nationals in Sweden at about five thousand. Sherzod Eraliev, a postdoctoral researcher at the Sociology of Law Departmen

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Published 13 August 2014 Exploring issues of methodology from a doctrinal as well as from an interdisciplinary perspective this new book by Reza Banakar also maps the development of law and socio-legal research from industrialisation to globalisation and searches for forms of regulation which can effectively meet the challenges of contemporary global/network society Normativity in Legal SociologyT

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Published 24 November 2014 The past 12 years they have been educating educationalists worldwide on children's rights through the training programme "Child Rights, Classroom and School Management", sponsored by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA). Per Wickenberg, director of studies at the Sociology of Law Department, Lund University, recently came back from Kozhikode in India where

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Published 2 March 2015 Professor Reza Banakar’s book Normativity in Legal Sociology. Methodological Reflections on Law and Regulation in Late Modernity has recently been released. It studies of the role of normativity in socio-legal research also looking at the challenges posed to modern law by the socio-cultural implications of globalisation.The book explores issues of methodology from a doctrina

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Published 15 June 2015 The self-regulation of rickshaw drivers in Bogota, Colombia was the topic of the talk when Ana Maria Vargas Falla presented a chapter of her coming dissertation at the annual meeting of The Law & Society Association in Seattle, May 28-31, 2015. The conference theme was Law’s Promise and Law’s Pathos in the Global North and Global South.Ana Maria Vargas Falla reports back tha

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Published 12 October 2015 Due to an anonymous threat made toward the university and its students via the app Jodel, which the police regards very seriously, the university will be closed on Monday for all students and staff at all campuses. More information will be posted on the university websites www.lu.se and www.lunduniversity.lu.se during the day. If you have any questions you can call +46 46

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Published 22 October 2015 Isabel Schoultz at the Sociology of Law Department has together with Janne Flyghed at the Department of Criminology at Stockholm University been granted 3.9 million SEK from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) for the project Business as usual. Corporate defense strategies against accusations of crime. The project aims to study what strategies companies apply when defending th

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Published 23 October 2015 Hate crimes are a part of the daily lives of many Roma and remarkably often children are the victims. At the same time reports of these crimes are very low as well as solving rates. This is now shown in two reports on hate crime that the Swedish Commission against antiziganism (Kommissionen mot antiziganism) has ordered.Today, Friday 23rd October, hate crimes and which me

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Published 18 December 2015 The new book by Reza Banakar, Driving Culture in Iran: Law and Society on the Roads of the Islamic Republic, argues that Iranians’ driving behaviour is an indicator of how they have historically related to each other and to their society at large, and how they have maintained a form of social order through law, culture and religion. Published by I.B.Tauris (London and Ne

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Published 17 May 2016 Our researcher Matthias Baier is on of the members in the project “The Annual Report - Words, images, numbers” which has been granted money from Pufendorf Institute. ”The aim of this project is to explore and unfold this multifaceted nature of annual reports”.Learn more on Pufendorf Institute’s websiteMatthias Baier’s personal page 

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Published 8 June 2016 Ana Maria Vargas Falla defended her dissertation "Outside the Law: An Ethnographic Study of Street Vendors in Bogotá" on June 8 at 13:15. External reviewer: Associate Professor Johan Gärde, Ersta Sköndal högskola.Ana Maria Vargas Falla’s personal page 

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Published 7 September 2016 Eva Schömer has authored the article "Sweden, a Society of Covert Racism: Equal from the Outside: Everyday Racism and Ethnic Discrimination in Swedish Society” in Oñati Socio-legal Series. Abstract:    Sweden is widely considered to have one of the most equal and gender-equal societies in the world. But the Swedish society is also one in which the Labour Court can find d

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Published 24 October 2016 Hildur Fjóla Antonsdóttir co-wrote an article with Halla Gunnarsdóttir, who is the head of policy and partnerships for the newly founded “Women’s Equality party” in UK. In the article they discuss if and how the Nordic countries have something to offer UK in terms of the quest for justice for victim-survivors of sexual violence. This piece was written in relation to a hig

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