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EU in the Volatile Indo-Pacific Region (EUVIP) is coordinated by Palacký University and also includes Lund University, the University of Helsinki and the Catholic University of Louvain. On 17-21 June EUVIP will organise a summer school in Olomouc on the topic Navigating Geostrategic Dynamics in the Indo-Pacific: Focus on Southeast Asia and MyanmarFor more information see the EUVIP website
https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/summer-school-news - 2025-11-11
The Centre announces 1-2 fully funded PhD positions. East and South-East Asian Studies is an interdisciplinary subject that focuses on contemporary phenomena and processes in the region as a whole as well as in individual countries. The subject integrates theoretical and methodological perspectives from area studies with different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Application dead
https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/1-2-fully-funded-phd-positions-east-and-south-east-asian-studies - 2025-11-11
The course that starts on 26 March and is mainly online apart from a writing retreat on 13-15 May will accept a few more students. If you are interested read the description and submit your application by 20 February.Find out more and apply here
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 migrant workers, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan are preparing to receive high numbers of newly unemployed men. The fall of the Russian rouble in March - as a consequence of Western sancti
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/central-asian-migrant-workers-risk-mass-unemployment - 2025-11-11
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 practice bars poor, racial
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 Department, she works wi
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/department-has-recruited-two-professors-sociology-law - 2025-11-11
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 a Doctor in Sociology of Law for all eternity. Bostan's PhD project sprung from her master's thesis in sociology of law, a gender perspective analysis of the conflict between the Kurdish PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) and
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/unanimous-committee-passed-cansu-bostan-doctorhood - 2025-11-11
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 dissertation aims to better understand the constraints and possibilities of mun
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/nicolas-serrano-cardona-has-received-his-doctorate-degree - 2025-11-11
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 norms. He published his most re
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/hakan-hyden-appointed-special-chief-editor-sociological-journal - 2025-11-11
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 Law Department in 2013. Combin
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/davor-vuleta-accepted-ranks-doctors-sociology-law - 2025-11-11
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 recently published a book comparing the everyday lives of labour migrants in Russia and Turkey. Central Asia -
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/central-asian-migrants-lives-and-challenges-russia-and-turkey - 2025-11-11
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 studied crime victim compensation for over a decade. At the conference organised by the Institute for Gender, Equality and Difference (RIKK) at the University o
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/karl-dahlstrand-presented-icelandic-conference-recognising-sexual-violence - 2025-11-11
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 be delivered online and ac
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/lecturer-reza-banakar-memorial-seminar-decided - 2025-11-11
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 goes to Isabel Schoultz's r
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociology-law-department-receives-over-sek-6-million-riksbanks-jubilee-fund - 2025-11-11
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 groups are legal aid organisati
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/anna-lundberg-receives-project-funding-improve-rights-advice - 2025-11-11
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 Department, says the actual number
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/life-and-labour-undocumented-uzbeks-sweden-and-finland - 2025-11-11
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 means funding for three years
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/three-million-migration-research - 2025-11-11
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 interests include how conflicts a
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/socio-legal-research-panorama-back-campus - 2025-11-11
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 children's rights and is prominent within the Child Rights Institute, a network gathering researchers within the field at Lund University. Sen
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/research-collaboration-sami-childrens-right-learn-their-language-russian-schools - 2025-11-11
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) for a research project placed at Lund University on vulnerability in the digital society. "This is the first time Lund University receives a visiting professorship through WA
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-visiting-professor-lead-social-science-ai-project - 2025-11-11
