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

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/marie-leth-espensen-successfully-defended-her-doctoral-thesis - 2025-07-17

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.  

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/video-presentation-anthology-memory-reza-banakar - 2025-07-17

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

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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 - 2025-07-17

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 - 2025-07-17

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 - 2025-07-17

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 - 2025-07-17

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 - 2025-07-17

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 - 2025-07-17

Published 12 February 2024 Doctoral students Embla Helle Nerland and Tim York presenting on the Research Panorama Day. The Research Panorama Day is an annual relay seminar presenting ongoing research at the Sociology of Law Department for new students. It is an opportunity for students to get an overview of the production of science at their current department and deepen their understanding of the

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-projects-presented-sociology-law-departments-research-panorama-day - 2025-07-17

Published 27 February 2024 When 2023 became 2024, Anna Lundberg took over as Head of The Sociology of Law Department. Here she talks about her first months in the position and future challenges. Former Head of Department Isabel Schoultz leads a time-sensitive research project examining strategies between prosecutors, lawyers, and counsels for the injured party in the trial against Orrön (formerly

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/anna-lundberg-new-head-department - 2025-07-17

Published 26 April 2024 The Bachelor's Programme in Criminology and the Sociology of Law Basic Course Online were among Lund University's most applied-for programmes and courses for the autumn semester of 2024. With 3,273 applications, the Bachelor's programme in Criminology had the most applicants of all the country's criminology programmes and courses for the seventh year running. The programme

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/departments-bachelors-programme-and-online-course-among-most-popular-lund-university - 2025-07-17

Published 26 April 2024 Cansu Bostan received the Oscar II Stipend, an annual award for the best doctoral thesis at each of Lund University's faculties defended during the previous two years. Bostan defended her thesis, Games of Justice: Ethnographic Inquiries on Space, Subjectivity and Law in Northern Kurdistan, in June 2022. She had spent five years studying ethnographically the changing formati

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/doctoral-thesis-sociology-law-awarded-facultys-best - 2025-07-17

Published 15 May 2024 Lund University recently decided to allocate €4 million to promote international impact. The Faculty of Social Sciences receives €590 000, part of which goes to the Sociology of Law Department. The department receives €44 600 (SEK 520,000) for two internationalising initiatives. A grant of €12 000 goes to organising an international workshop at the end of November on de-colon

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociology-law-department-receives-half-million-sek-strengthen-international-impact - 2025-07-17

Published 26 June 2024 Ida Nafstad. Photo: Emma Lord NordForsk, an organisation under the Nordic Council of Ministers that funds cooperative research between researchers in the Nordics, awarded Ida Nafstad the equivalent of €324,000 as part of a larger research grant. Her research group intends to promote democratic engagement participation among marginalised groups in environmental policy-making.

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/research-strives-amplify-marginalized-voices-nordic-baltic-green-transition - 2025-07-17

Published 26 June 2024 The three grant recipients: Ida Nafstad, Jannice Käll and Anna Lundberg. The Sociology of Law Department received four positive answers for funding requests this month. The Crafoord Foundation funds Anna Lundberg's ”Public employees’ mobilization against the Informers Act” project with 500,000 SEK. Information about the research will be available later this year.They also gr

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/several-successful-grant-applications-june - 2025-07-17

Published 27 September 2024 On Friday, September 13, Oscar Björkenfeldt successfully defended his thesis, "Online Harassment Against Journalists: A Socio-Legal and Working-Life Study of the Challenges and Impacts in Swedish Journalism". By integrating sociology of law and work-life science, Oscar Björkenfeldt developed insights into how online harassment targeting journalists influences journalist

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/oscar-bjorkenfeldt-completes-doctoral-student-programme - 2025-07-17

Published 11 November 2024 The Sociology of Law Department receives 50,000 SEK (€4,300) in faculty mobility funds to invite Sergio Jarillo de la Torre, a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Geography, University of Melbourne. His background is in social anthropology, law, and art history, and he has spent over ten years doing fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, the Marshall  Islands and Mozam

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/department-granted-funds-invite-researcher-university-melbourne - 2025-07-17

Published 6 December 2024 Ana Maria Vargas Falla was Lund University's only representative at COP29 in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. She has researched public resistance and acceptance of climate legislation and contributed to the "10 new insights in climate science" presented during the climate summit. These are her impressions of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. I was initially v

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/ana-maria-vargas-falla-reflects-cop29 - 2025-07-17