Published 10 December 2013 For the second time this year the Sociology of Law Department at Lund University receives The Swedish Research Council’s grant for an International Post Doc. In June of this year Stefan Larsson received the grant for his research on legal challenges in a digital context. This time Rustamjon Urinboyev’s project on migration and legal culture is awarded the grant, which me

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Published 28 February 2023 The Sociology of Law Department's annual research day for new students took place on the Lund University campus for the first time since the end of the pandemic restrictions last year. The day introduced several of the department's new researchers and PhD students. Professor Ole Hammerslev joined the Sociology of Law Department on 1 January this year. His research intere

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Published 10 March 2023 Ekaterina Zmyvalova and Senior Professor Per Wickenberg outside the Sociology of Law Department at Lund University. Umeå University PhD student Ekaterina Zmyvalova visited the Sociology of Law Department in October to present her research on the right of Sámi children of Russia to learn their language at school. The department has a long-standing tradition of research on ch

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/research-collaboration-sami-childrens-right-learn-their-language-russian-schools - 2025-04-21

By ulrika [dot] oredsson [at] sam [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Oredsson) - published 18 November 2022 Sofia Ranchordas on the left and Jannice Käll on the right. Photo: Private The Wallenberg Foundation's research programme "AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanities and Society" grants Sofia Ranchordas, Professor of Administrative Law at Tilburg Law School, 8,5 million SEK (€ 754 000)

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Published 4 November 2013 A significant contribution to the study of law and social norms has been made by the Sociology of Law Department in Lund with the new book 'Social and Legal Norms. Towards a Socio-Legal Understanding of Normativity'. New Technologies and globalization have amongst other things resulted in an increasingly complex relationship between law and norms. Looking to answer questi

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/exploring-law-and-norms-new-book - 2025-04-21

By theo [dot] hagman-rogowski [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Theo Hagman-Rogowski och Noomi Egan) - published 4 April 2023 Greta Thunberg is part of the youth group Aurora, which is bringing a class action against the Swedish government. Photo: Mark Connaughton. In Sweden, class actions - such as the ongoing Aurora case, where 300 young people are suing the government for failing to implement clim

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/should-state-pay-climate-class-action-litigation - 2025-04-21

By theo [dot] hagman-rogowski [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Theo Hagman-Rogowski) - published 8 May 2023 Swedish journalists lack trust in the judicial system's ability to protect them from illegal online harassment, according to a recent study. The primary reason is the judicial system's tendency to downplay the harm caused by online harassment. Oscar Björkenfeldt, a PhD student in the Sociology

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/swedish-journalists-perceptions-inadequate-legal-protection-against-unlawful-online-harassment - 2025-04-21

Published 22 May 2023 Marko Antonio Naranjo Marko Antonio Naranjo, a student in the Master's Programme in Sociology of Law, received the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Director's Award for his performance during his internship in the autumn semester of 2022. The Museum director gives the accolade to volunteers and interns who make special contributions to promoting the memory of Auschwitz. "I fee

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Published 18 September 2013 A growing interest has been seen in law schools for the intersections between law and different areas of social theory met in this book. Law and Social Theory is the name of a new book in Sociology of Law, edited by Reza Banakar of the Sociology of Law Department in Lund and Max Travers at the School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania.Over half the chapters are

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By joel [dot] jonsson [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Joel Jönsson) - published 8 June 2023 PhD candidate Heraclitos Muhire's research focuses on politicians leaving politics and joining private companies. Movements between business and politics are almost uncontrolled, and the conflicts and consequences are understudied. Around the 2014 elections, Heraclitos Muhire noticed a potential conflict of

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/heraclitos-muhire-studies-revolving-doors-between-corridors-power-and-corporate-entrances - 2025-04-21

Published 13 June 2023 Doctor Marie Leth-Espensen responding to the external reviewer David Redmalm during the thesis defence. On Friday, 9 June, Marie Leth-Espensen defended her thesis "Animals and the Politics of Suffering: Essays on Law, Care and Interspecies Relations," which explores the implications of various strategies addressing the suffering of farmed animals in Denmark. A recurring them

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Published 24 August 2023 Senior Professor Håkan Hydén and our former doctoral student Hildur Fjóla Antonsdóttir present "Combining the Legal and the Social in Sociology of Law: An Homage to Reza Banakar", the anthology published in memory of Reza Banakar, our esteemed professor of sociology of law who passed away in August 2020. Download the book for free at bloomsburycollections.com.  

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Published 5 September 2013 Ana Maria Vargas Falla at the Sociology of Law Department in Lund has received a grant from the Regulatory Institutions Network (Regnet) and will be attending the Australian National University in Canberra as a visiting Scholar in September and October. She has also been invited to present her research at The University of Melbourne.- It is a great opportunity for me and

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/tools-empowerment-informal-workers - 2025-04-21

Published 29 September 2023 Embla Helle Nerland Doctoral student in Sociology of Law Embla Helle Nerland joins the ongoing debate on artificial intelligence (AI) policy in Norway. Nerland writes in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten that while Municipal Minister Sigbjørn Gjelsvik says a policy for AI is in place, it lacks clarity. She demands an AI policy that respects democracy and human rights,

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/norway-needs-clearer-ai-policy - 2025-04-21

Published 13 March 2014 The Sociology of Law Department has received funding under the Linnaeus-Palme programme for the academic years 2014-15 and 2014-16. The Linnaeus-Palme programme grants 80 000 SEK to the Sociology of Law Department for the cooperation between Lund University (LU) and the Inner Mongolia Normal University (IMNU). IMNU, founded in 1952, is one of the oldest and largest universi

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Published 2 November 2023 Anna Lundberg, Anna Sonander, Rustamjon Urinboyev, and Monika Lindbekk. The grant enables a study of how children's rights are understood and made use of in custody cases in three countries with different legal cultures. The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forte) grants the Sociology of Law Department almost five million SEK (€420,000) for t

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/five-million-sek-research-childrens-rights-custody-disputes - 2025-04-21

Published 13 November 2023 Sociologists of law find that Swedish law enforcement struggles to investigate the exploitation of migrant workers. Only two percent of reported cases end up in court. Central to the justice deficit are two interacting logics: the criminal law logic and the labour migration regime. Of the 237 cases of human trafficking for forced labour and human exploitation reported to

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/low-level-criminal-law-protection-exploited-migrant-workers-sweden - 2025-04-21

Published 24 November 2023 Photo: Anders Roos Almost three years ago, Måns Svensson took a leave of absence from the Sociology of Law Department to become Professor of Sociology of Law and Dean of the School of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences at Halmstad University. When his leave of absence ends at the turn of the year, he leaves his position in Lund. Instead, he will become President o

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/mans-svensson-leaves-sociology-law-department-become-president - 2025-04-21

Published 18 December 2023 Queer asylum seekers to the EU must conform to fixed notions of gender and sexuality for migration authorities to believe them. In a recent study, Sophia Zisakou exposes the migration authorities' biased expectations of LGBTQI asylum seekers within the European asylum process. Persons facing persecution, discrimination, or violence based on their sexual orientation or ge

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/queerness-mechanism-creating-europes-borders - 2025-04-21

Published 4 January 2024 During the winter break, we received the tragic news that Karl Dahlstrand passed away unexpectedly. Karl studied law and criminology at Stockholm University and graduated in sociology of law at Lund University in 2007. He defended his doctoral thesis at the Sociology of Law in 2012. His dissertation "Kränkning och upprättelse: En rättssociologisk studie av kränkningsersätt

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/our-friend-and-colleague-karl-dahlstrand-has-passed-away - 2025-04-21