Published 10 January 2022 It took Swedish prosecutors six years to prepare the criminal case against former executives of Telia Company for paying several hundred million USD in bribes in Uzbekistan. The Sociology of Law Department's researcher Isabel Schoultz attended the trial to study the defence strategies of the accused. In September 2018, three former top executives of the Swedish telecommun

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/how-corporate-executives-beat-corruption-charges-performing-unbeloning-court - 2025-03-17

Published 28 February 2022 Few bachelor theses make it to publication. But a student currently in the Master's Programme in Sociology of Law recently managed the unusual feat when an international journal published a reworked version of her bachelor's project. Occasionally, a master's student with an aptitude for academic work will see an abbreviated version of their thesis published in a scientif

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/masters-student-publishes-bachelor-thesis-international-academic-journal - 2025-03-17

By theo [dot] hagman-rogowski [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Theo Hagman-Rogowski) - published 22 April 2022 Central Asian migrant worker at a construction site in Russia. Photo: Rustam Urinboyev The economic sanctions against Russian following the invasion of Ukraine are having spillover effects in Central Asia. With the prospect of economic and social strain forcing Russian employers to lay off

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/central-asian-migrant-workers-risk-mass-unemployment - 2025-03-17

Published 13 May 2022 Welfare policies across the continent are becoming increasingly nationalistic and exclusive toward racialised and poor non-citizens. A socio-legal paper published in Critical Social Policy finds that social services in Sweden and Italy are increasingly ignoring asylum-seekers, undocumented migrants, and internal European migrants when reporting cases of homelessness. The prac

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/racist-and-classist-politics-behind-increased-homelessness-among-asylum-seekers-europe - 2025-03-17

Published 16 June 2022 The two new professors are Anna Lundberg and Ole Hammerslev, who have been guest professors at the Sociology of Law Department since the summer of 2021. On 1 September, Anna Lundberg, Associate Professor of Human Rights, will leave her professorship in Welfare Law at Linköping University and become a Professor of Sociology of Law at Lund University. At the Sociology of Law D

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/department-has-recruited-two-professors-sociology-law - 2025-03-17

Published 17 June 2022 Cansu Bostan (left) shaking the hand of the external reviewer, Dr Katrin Seidel (right). Behind them are examining committee member Mark Goodale (far left), and assistant supervisor Martin Ramstedt. On Friday, June 17, Cansu Bostan successfully defended her dissertation Games of Justice: Ethnographic Inquiries on Space, Subjectivity and Law in Northern Kurdistan. She is now

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/unanimous-committee-passed-cansu-bostan-doctorhood - 2025-03-17

Published 21 June 2022 Nicolas Serrano Cardona after the successful defense. On Monday, 20 June, Nicolás Serrano Cardona successfully defended his dissertation Interlegality, Municipalities and Social Change: A Sociolegal Study of the Controversy around Bullfighting in Bogotá, Colombia. He is the 59th PhD student to complete doctoral studies at the Sociology of Law Department. Serrano Cardona's di

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/nicolas-serrano-cardona-has-received-his-doctorate-degree - 2025-03-17

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

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/hakan-hyden-appointed-special-chief-editor-sociological-journal - 2025-03-17

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

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/davor-vuleta-accepted-ranks-doctors-sociology-law - 2025-03-17

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

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/central-asian-migrants-lives-and-challenges-russia-and-turkey - 2025-03-17

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

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/karl-dahlstrand-presented-icelandic-conference-recognising-sexual-violence - 2025-03-17

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

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/lecturer-reza-banakar-memorial-seminar-decided - 2025-03-17

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

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociology-law-department-receives-over-sek-6-million-riksbanks-jubilee-fund - 2025-03-17

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

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/anna-lundberg-receives-project-funding-improve-rights-advice - 2025-03-17

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

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/life-and-labour-undocumented-uzbeks-sweden-and-finland - 2025-03-17

Publicerad 22 januari 2024 Åsa Hansson Hur påverkar skatter företag och individer? Och hur kan skattesystem utformas för att inte hämma konkurrenskraft i en internationell och digital värld? Det är några av Åsa Hanssons främsta forskningsintressen. Nu knyts hon till forskningsinstitutet Ratio för att där förlägga en del av sin forskningstid. Åsa Hansson, docent i nationalekonomi och välkänd skatte

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/skatteforskaren-asa-hansson-till-ratio - 2025-03-17

Av kefu [at] kefu [dot] se (Mats Brangstrup) - publicerad 14 december 2023 Nu startar ett nytt nationellt kommunforskningsprogram i ett samarbete mellan KEFU, CERUM (Umeå universitet), CKS (Linköpings universitet), och KFI (Förvaltningshögskolan i Göteborg med en övergripande ambition att bygga ett långsiktigt starkt nationellt forskningsnätverk. Initiativet stöttas också finansiellt av Kommuninve

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/kommunala-kapaciteter-och-strategier-en-hallbar-kommunal-framtid-ett-nationellt - 2025-03-17

Av linnea [dot] morth [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Linnea Mörth) - publicerad 23 januari 2024 Studenterna från Ekonomihögskolan tillsammans med coachen och läraren Mats Urde. Foto: Privat Ekonomihögskolan vid Lunds universitet kom hem med flera medaljer från 2024 års upplaga av världens största casetävling i Kanada. Laget säkrade tredje plats i finalen, läraren Mats Urde fick priset som årets coach

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/ekonomistudenter-fran-lund-till-finalen-i-varldens-mest-prestigefulla-business-case-tavling - 2025-03-17

Av louise [dot] larsson [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Louise Larsson) - publicerad 19 februari 2021 Systemen ska underlätta vårt arbete, men ibland kan man som medarbetare uppleva att det snarare är tvärtom. I artikeln ges flera perspektiv på ett välanvänt system vid Lunds universitet och flera andra lärosäten och organisationer: Primula. Foto: Istock Säg ”Primula” och en del tänker på en blomma. An

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/primula-systemet-som-vi-alskar-att-hata-eller-i-alla-fall-klaga-pa - 2025-03-17

Publicerad 7 december 2020 För första gången kvalar Ekonomihögskolan vid Lunds universitet in på ”Financial Times European Business Schools 2020 ranking”. I stark konkurrens rankas nu skolan som nummer 75 i Europa. Måndagen den 7 december riktade tidningen Financial Times (FT) återigen strålkastarna mot de europeiska handelshögskolorna. Ekonomihögskolan i Lund har två magisterprogram som nyligen r

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/ekonomihogskolan-rankas-bland-de-basta-handelshogskolorna-i-europa - 2025-03-17