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The distinguished socio-legal scholar Thomas Mathiesen died on Saturday, May 29. He was 87 years old. Thomas Mathiesen received his doctorate from the University of Oslo in 1965 with the dissertation The Defenses of the Weak, which examined the Norwegian prison service. Three years later, he founded the Norwegian Association for Criminal Reform (KROM), with the intent to reform the prison system.

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/honorary-doctor-faculty-social-sciences-has-passed-away - 2025-12-13

Swedish healthcare is supposed to be guided by a principle of need, treating the most urgent cases first. Political reforms in recent decades have also introduced freedom of choice as a guiding principle. The rise of online doctor services on the healthcare market has made it clear that the two principles clash, suggests sociologist of law Peter Bergwall, who recently defended his dissertation on

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/online-doctors-expose-deficiencies-swedish-healthcare-system - 2025-12-13

The Sociology of Law Department’s researcher Jannice Käll proposes how Nordic feminist theory and new materialist feminist theory can reach further in a call for feminist justice by considering their differences. In a recent article in Nordic Journal on Law and Society, Jannice Käll presents a concept of justice based on a fusing of Nordic feminist perspectives of law with the new materialism and

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-materialism-and-nordic-feminism-co-working-new-perspective-justice - 2025-12-13

The mandate Head of Department rarely spans more than six years. Matthias Baier held it at the Sociology of Law Department for eleven. This spring, the former prefect resumed his position as Senior Lecturer. Accompanied by his partner and two dogs in their rural home outside of Lund, Matthias Baier spent the spring semester phasing himself out of the department's top managerial position and back t

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/matthias-baier-has-stepped-down-head-department-and-back-classroom - 2025-12-13

The ecological consequences of animal agriculture present an acute challenge for how we legislate to protect cows, pigs, and other farmed animals. Research at the Sociology of Law Department suggests abandoning human-centred perspectives, thus calling for a new paradigm that recognizes the ethical significance of all animals as world-making beings. It has been estimated that about 72 billion land

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/laws-failure-protect-farmed-animals-has-dire-consequences-both-human-and-nonhuman-life - 2025-12-13

A month has passed since the start of the autumn semester. By now, the Sociology of Law Department's two guest professors, Anna Lundberg and Ole Hammerslev, are deeply embedded in the institution, where they will stay until June 2022. Anna Lundberg, who started on 1 July, is Professor of Welfare Law and Associate Professor in Human Rights at Linköping University. At the Sociology of Law Department

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/these-are-sociology-law-departments-guest-professors - 2025-12-13

On Friday, December 3, Mikael Lundholm’s eight-year doctoral education ended with a successful defence of his thesis “The Social Contingency of Law: Studies of Social Control during Foreclosure in Sweden”. Mikael Lundholm’s thesis defence was the Sociology of Law Department’s first on-campus since social restrictions were prescribed at Lund University in the spring of 2019 to mitigate the spread o

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/now-it-doctor-mikael-lundholm - 2025-12-13

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 telecommunications company Telia Com

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/how-corporate-executives-beat-corruption-charges-performing-unbeloning-court - 2025-12-13

On Tuesday November 27 the first Nordic Huntington Disease Research Meeting took place at the Biomedical Center in Lund.  50 participants from Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway took part of interesting data blitz presentations about clinical research, mechanisms of disease and future therapies. The pauses during the day gave opportunity to interesting discussions and the possibility to interact

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/nordic-huntington-disease-research-meeting - 2025-12-13

Huntington Center in Lund is hosting an information meeting on Huntington's disease on November 19 at the Biomedical Center in Lund. Åsa Petersén will give a talk on the latest research in HD and Håkan Widner, professor and senior consultant in neurology, will be talking about symptoms and treatment. The Huntington team from the Neurology clinic at Lund University Hospital will be presenting their

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/information-evening-huntingtons-disease - 2025-12-13

Petersén gives research talk for young people in HD families on November 10 2018 in Stockholm at a 2-day conference organised by the Swedish Huntington Association “Riksförbundet för Huntingtons sjukdom". Read more about this event on Riksförbundet för Huntingtons sjukdom's webpage (in Swedish)

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-gives-research-talk-young-people-hd-families-stockholm - 2025-12-13

Åsa Petersén has been awarded a four-year project grant from the Swedish Research Council (VR), starting from 2019. The grant is awarded for the project entitled Effects of hypothalamic circuitries in Huntington disease. The total granted sum is 4.8 million for 2019-2022.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-granted-funds-swedish-research-council - 2025-12-13

Yesterday it was announced that Professor Åsa Petersén will receive the Fernström award at Lund University for younger, successful researchers. The prize is awarded six researches at different Medical Faculties in Sweden, where each and one receives the sum of SEK 100 000. The Lund award ceremony will take place on November 7 at “Forskningens dag”.Congratulations, Åsa!Read more (in Swedish)

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/professor-petersen-fernstrom-awardee - 2025-12-13

Congratulations to Dr. Rana Soylu-Kucharz who is awarded a 2 year postdoctoral stipend from the Swedish Brain Foundation! Dr. Rana Soylu-Kucharz is awarded a 2 year postdoctoral stipend from the Swedish Brain Foundation to study the role of hypothalamic dysfunction for striatal pathology in HD! Congratulations Rana!

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/dr-soylu-kucharz-awarded-postdoctoral-stipend - 2025-12-13

Today the new Huntington Center headed by Åsa Petersén was inaugurated by the dean of the Medical Faculty at Lund University and the Head of Research at Region Skåne. 

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/huntington-center-now-inaugurated - 2025-12-13

TNU är värd för ett råd- och stödgruppsmöte för Riksförbundet för Huntingtons sjukdom i Skåne torsdagen den 1:e juni kl 18.00 - 20.00.Program:18.00-18.10 Välkomna och introduktion av Susanne Zell, RHS18.10-18.40 Föredrag om den senaste forskningen av Åsa Petersén, Lunds Universitet18.40-19.10 Rundtur på forskningslaboratorium om Huntingtons sjukdom19.10-20.00 Fika och diskussion om anhörigförening

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-berattar-om-den-senaste-forskningen-riksforbundet-huntingtons-sjukdom-den-1e-juni-2017 - 2025-12-13

On July 31st 2008, Åsa Petersén was interviewed on Swedish National Radio, Sveriges Radio P1. 

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/radio-interview-asa-petersen - 2025-12-13

Gåva ger hopp om att stoppa grym sjukdom (in Swedish only)

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/sydvenskan-article-about-huntingtons-disease - 2025-12-13

article_in_allers_2008.pdf

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/article-allers-magazine-about-huntingtons-disease - 2025-12-13

Read about Huntington's disease and Åsa Petersén's research on page 26 (in Swedish).Aktuellt om Vetenskap & Hälsa - November 2008

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/article-huntingtons-disease-aktuellt-om-vetenskap-halsa - 2025-12-13