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Learn to view law from another perspective Lund is the only university in Scandinavia and Europe to host a complete training in Sociology of Law from undergraduate through to professional degrees. Studying Sociology of Law in Lund will give you unique and valuable competence helping you in your future career. Lund university is proud to offer sociology of law at all levels up to Master and profess
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Graduate Level (Second Cycle). Spring Semester. SOLM02, Sociology of Law: Master's (Two Years) Thesis, 30 credits The course is also offered as part of the Master's Program in Sociology of Law (SASOL). The course involves students independently designing and completing a research project within the discipline of sociology of law. The student is to identify a relevant issue from within the discipli
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/education/stand-alone-courses/masters-two-years-thesis - 2026-01-21
Graduate Level (Second Cycle). Spring Semester. SOLM12, Sociology of Law: Master's (One Year) Thesis, 15 credits A Master’s thesis is a scientific research project of limited scale that is intended to exhibit the student’s capacity to work independently and carry out research. The intension of the thesis is to make a genuine contribution of new knowledge, written in the genre of scientific researc
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/education/stand-alone-courses/masters-one-year-thesis - 2026-01-21
CRE-AI is a two year postdoc project (Sociology of Law, Univeristy of Lund, Sweden, Feb 2019-2021) on the legal and societal implications of so-called creative or generative Artificial Intelligence, notably Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). By blurring the distinction between fake and real ('deepfakes'), and its capacity to compose convincing new variations on existing patterns, generative A
The research project ”Socio-legal study on the public’s sense of justice and criminal injuries compensation. A follow-up.” It is a longitudinal study in which a few central results from the PhD dissertation “Socio-legal study on the public’s sense of justice and criminal injuries compensation” is followed up after approximately ten years. The aim is primarily to investigate how survey respondents
The demographic transition of society and new technology contribute to exponential accumulation of micro-data in healthcare registers. Novel usage of artificially intelligent decision aids, applied on the Swedish register infrastructure, holds promises for improved quality and efficiency of healthcare. Focussing on cardiometabolic diseases, AIR Lund will critically assess the added value of machin
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/air-lund-artificially-intelligent-use-registers - 2026-01-21
Digitalization enables machines to make, or contribute to, ever more complex decisions with ever higher stakes. This imposes the question of legal responsibility for digitalized decision-making on us all. Our project inquires whether digitalization is a threat to long-established models of legal thinking, reasoning and adjudicating, and, if so, why that is and what can be done about it. Our focus
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/digitalization-and-legal-responsibility - 2026-01-21
This project aims to examine undocumented labour migrants’ legal culture and socio-legal integration in a politically hybrid regime. The project uses the case of Russia, a hybrid political regime and the world’s second largest recipient of labour migrants, to investigate how undocumented migrants negotiate and manoeuvre around the restrictive socio-legal environment through producing new ways of i
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/migration-shadow-economy-and-parallel-legal-orders-russia - 2026-01-21
Roma victims in Swedish criminal courts. The Swedish legal model is historically, and according to traditional jurisprudence, characterized as monocentric and uniform, tightly connected to the nation-state. This legal identity is challenged by an increasingly diverse contemporary legal situation, with the development of a multicultural, globalized and pluralistic society.Encounters between Roma le
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/romas-victims-swedish-criminal-courts - 2026-01-21
The project’s objective is to study the strategies employed by three businesses (Telia Sonera, Lundin Petroleum and Stora Enso) when defending themselves against allegations of crime. Is it possible to distinguish differences in the companies’ defence strategies across different periods of time, in different forums and in relation to different target groups? How may institutional and social struct
- Adjudicating Islamic Family Law in Egypt: Continuity and Rupture A post-doctoral research project focusing on adjudication of Muslim marriage and divorce law by Egyptian courts before and after the 2011 revolution. More generally, the research focuses on the intersection between law, religion, and gender in this field. The overall aim of the project is to contribute to the scholarly literature o
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/islamic-law-egypt - 2026-01-21
- Insights from a Post-Soviet Context This is a study on the multilevel orders of corruption. The project-administrating organisation is the Department of Sociology of Law, Lund University. The overall purpose of the project is to further contribute to the global and national efforts of understanding and counteracting corruption and its societal implications. The project challenges the conventiona
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/multilevel-orders-corruption - 2026-01-21
consequences for freedom of speech and democracy A majority of the early scientific research on the internet had, rather uncritically, high hopes for the new technology’s potential to advance democratic development in society. Today we know that the internet also poses serious challenges to the democratic legal state. One such challenge are threats and hatred aimed at journalists. This occurs to s
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/hate-and-threats-against-journalists - 2026-01-21
All publicationsIn Lund University Research Portal Lucris you can find dissertations, reports, and articles written by researchers at the Sociology of Law Department.Find all of our latest publications in the Lund University Research PortalOur book seriesThe Sociology of Law Department presents Lund Studies in Sociology of Law covering topics like cyber norms, sustainability, abused women, and liv
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A Case Study of the School System of Cau Giay in Hanoi The overall aim of the project is to further contribute to the understanding of dynamics that underlie corruption, and the significance of local informal social norms, in relation to, international anti-corruption conventions and national law, when building counteraction strategies on a local level. The overall aim raises the following core pr
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/role-social-norms-fighting-corruption-local-governments - 2026-01-21
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Sociology of Law Department The Sociology of Law Department's Staff DirectoryQuestions about the Master's programme and coursesProgramme AdministratorHelena EdbergVisiting hours: by appointmentTelephone: +46 72-531 45 74E-post: helena [dot] edberg [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] seHead of DepartmentAnna LundbergTelephone: +46 70-946 62 30E-mail: anna [dot] lundberg [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] seDirecto
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Graduate Level (Second Cycle). Autumn Semester. RÄSN10, Critical Perspectives on Criminal Justice and Social Control, 7.5 credits This is a master's level course, based on socio-legal and critical criminological perspectives on approaches to crime, criminal justice and social control. You will discuss theory and empirical knowledge within critical studies of crime, social control and criminal poli
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Graduate Level (Second Cycle). Autumn Semester. RÄSN04, lnternship in Sociology of Law, 15 credits. This master's level course is only available as part of the Master's Programme in Sociology of Law (SASOL). Course content You spend 10 weeks in a for the course relevant organisation. During this time, you are continuously active in the activities of the organisation, work with qualified assignment
Graduate Level (Second Cycle). Autumn Semester. RÄSN11, Law, Society and Corruption, 7.5 credits Corruption is an elusive concept that needs to be studied and understood from multi-disciplinary perspectives. The course will introduce you to global and interdisciplinary perspectives in the area of corruption and anti-corruption studies. Specifically by examining the emergence, explanation, survival
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/education/stand-alone-courses/law-society-and-corruption - 2026-01-21
