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 - 2025-07-05

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 - 2025-07-05

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 - 2025-07-05

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 - 2025-07-05

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 - 2025-07-05

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 - 2025-07-05

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 - 2025-07-05

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 - 2025-07-05

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 - 2025-07-05

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 - 2025-07-05

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 - 2025-07-05

By theo [dot] hagman-rogowski [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Theo Hagman-Rogowski) - published 10 January 2025 Photo: Tbel Abuseridze | Unsplash Michael Molavi and Isabel Schoultz have received a major research grant from the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Programme. Together with newly hired post-doctoral researcher, Elin Jönsson, they will study how ongoing de-democratisation processes aff

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/eu-funds-research-about-democratic-decline-and-protest-culture - 2025-07-05

Published 27 January 2025 Climate change is a reality for communities globally, forcing governments and international agencies to propose climate adaptation measures. For many people, these top-down approaches don't always align with their needs, values or legal rights. Ana Maria Vargas is one of the researchers in the project "Everyday forms of resistance to state adaptation regulation: An ethnog

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/the-justice-in-resisting-climate-change-policies - 2025-07-05

Published 21 January 2025 Patrik Olsson participating in a panel discussion at the conference in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In October last year, the Sociology of Law Department's researcher and senior lecturer Patrik Olsson was invited to a conference in Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent to contribute with expertise on the country's social and political development. On October 24, 2024, an international c

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/patrik-olsson-invited-uzbekistan-expert-civil-society-and-non-profit-development - 2025-07-05

Published 5 March 2025 Ida Nafstad and Heraclitos Muhire each had an article among the five most downloaded from the journal Justice, Power and Resistance last year. Both articles have been accessed more than 2000 times since their publication. Ida Nafstad wrote the article "Police abolition and transformative justice in the footsteps of Thomas Mathiesen's penal abolition", outlining Thomas Mathie

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/two-articles-department-among-jprs-most-downloaded - 2025-07-05

Published 12 March 2025 The researchers Anna Lundberg, Christina Johnsson, Emma Sundqvist and Jacob Lind. Anna Lundberg has received funding for two projects investigating how and why public employees and trade unions respectively mobilise against the government's Informers Act. The law makes it mandatory for staff in certain public organisations to report undocumented migrants to the border polic

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/anna-lundberg-leads-two-new-projects-studying-informer-act - 2025-07-05

Published 3 April 2025 A PhD programme exploring law and governance in authoritarian regimes across Central Asia has received nearly €4.7 million in funding from the European Commission, with an additional €800,000 contributed by the Swiss Secretariat for Research, Education and Innovation. The initiative aims to provide critical insights into legal and societal structures in authoritarian states.

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociology-law-department-leads-eu55m-eu-funded-research-authoritarian-law-and-legality-central-asia - 2025-07-05

By chekhros [dot] kilichova [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Chekhros Kilichova) - published 16 April 2025 The project "ProTest: Protest as a Democracy Test. Protest Culture under Transformation and as a Transformative Power" was launched with a two-day kick-off meeting on 7–8 April at Corvinus University of Budapest. The project gathers a multidisciplinary consortium of nine European academic and r

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/researchers-studying-protest-culture-gathered-budapest-project-kick - 2025-07-05

Published 4 June 2025 A €1.8 million EU grant will fund new research into the challenges of promoting good governance and the rule of law in non-Western societies. In May, the European Commission's HORIZON Programme confirmed the funding for Rustamjon Urinboyev's research and training program "The Political Economy of Legal and Governance Reform in Non-Western Societies: Insights from Central Asia

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-grant-backs-research-alternative-non-western-legal-and-governance-institutions - 2025-07-05

Published 13 June 2025 The search is on for 25 researchers from around the world in Lund University’s largest ever international recruitment drive. Welcome to join a world-class university dedicated to understanding, explaining, and improving our world and the human condition. As an Assistant Professor, you develop your qualifications over four years. You can then be promoted to permanent employme

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociology-law-department-hiring-assistant-professor-law-rights-and-social-movements - 2025-07-05