Published 8 March 2024 Purpose: to promote legal research at the Faculty of Law in Lund. Through its activities, the Foundation will support, encourage and facilitate research at the faculty. Anyone actively conducting research at the Faculty of Law in Lund is eligible to apply for a grant. Grants will be awarded primarily for costs directly incurred while conducting or reporting on a research pro

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Published 11 March 2024 Markus Gunneflo, the new coordinator of the Agenda 2030 Graduate School. Photo: Kennet Rouna Late last year, Markus Gunneflo was appointed by the vice-chancellor to lead the Lund University Agenda 2030 graduate school. Markus has always felt at home in interdisciplinary environments, and working with PhD students has been the most enjoyable part of his professional life. A

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Published 5 April 2024 The Academic Appointments Board has today 4 April 2024 decided to appoint Anna Nilsson as Associate Professor (docent) in human rights. Anna Nilsson defended her PhD at the Faculty of Law in 2017 with a thesis on whether and, if so, under what circumstances, compulsory mental health care is lawful under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. After defe

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Published 15 May 2024 The Academic Appointments Board has 13 May 2024 decided to appoint Matthew Scott as Associate Professor (docent) in public international law. Matthew Scott defended his PhD thesis in public international law at the Faculty of Law in 2018. The focus of his research was on the application of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees in situations of cross-border cl

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Published 16 May 2024 The government has decided to appoint Mia Rönnmar as Vice-Chancellor of Malmö University for the period 1 August 2024 – 31 July 2030. The Dean of the Faculty of Law Henrik Wenander says:– We are proud and happy that Mia Rönnmar has been given this exciting assignment. She has the qualities and experience required to lead and develop Malmö University. It is of course sad for t

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Published 31 May 2024 Every year, the Law Students' Union (Juridiska Föreningen or JF) presents a pedagogical prize to a teacher at the faculty who students consider to be an excellent educator and who has thereby contributed to a better education. In 2024, Yana Litins'ka, senior lecturer, is being awarded the prize. The motivation states that Yana Litins'ka is awarded the prize for teaching with

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Published 31 May 2024 The Law Students' Union (Juridiska Föreningen or JF) has decided to award a prize for outstanding service to students to a teacher at the Faculty. Ellika Sevelin, Senior Lecturer at the Faculty, is awarded the prize 2024. The motivation states, that Ellika Sevelin is being recognized for always considering the students' perspectives and for her efforts to improve the situatio

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Published 3 June 2024 Book cover Cambridge University Press has published Valentin Jeutner’s latest book, entitled The Reasonable Person: A Legal Biography. In the book, Valentin traces the common law’s concept of the reasonable person across time and space, and across a diverse number of legal fields including (ancient) legal history, contract, tort, and criminal law as well as jurisprudence and

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Published 3 June 2024 Valentin Jeutner and Hannah Strømmen (Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, CTR) have received 2.3 million SEK from the LMK- Foundation for a project on biblical and legal studies. The project will fund a postdoctoral position hosted at CTR and linked to Juridicum. The objective of the position is to study how biblical and legal studies relate to eachother in a contempor

https://www.law.lu.se/article/valentin-jeutner-awared-funding-lmk-foundation-law-religion-project - 2025-04-27

Published 4 June 2024 Through a collaboration between Ragnar Söderbergs stiftelse and the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Julian Nowag will arrange an academic conference at the Royal Academy during 2025-2026.The collaboration is aimed to provide distinguished, younger researchers to arrange an academic conference with internationally renowned speakers. With this initiative Ragnar Söderbergs sti

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Published 5 June 2024 On 30 May, the Faculty held its annual Research Day, where this year's honorary doctor and the new doctorates gave inspiring lectures. Pictured, from left, are Faculty Marshals Richard Croneberg and Anna Zemskova, new doctors Alexander Hardenberger, Lovisa Häckner Posse and Alezini Loxa, and Honorary Doctor David Lagnado.  The ceremony took place on 31 May.  

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Published 10 June 2024 Documentation must be sent to the faculty no later than 15 September 2024. The application must be submitted to the Foundation no later than 8 October 2024. Objectives of the callThe main objectives for the call are:to provide prominent early-career researchers in law with substantial funding that will allow them to advance in their academic career,to support new research fi

https://www.law.lu.se/article/ragnar-soderberg-foundation-announces-funding-postdoctoral-projects - 2025-04-27

Published 9 September 2024 The Academic Appointments Board decided on 5 September 2024 to appoint Yana Litins’ka as Associate Professor in Public Law. Yana Litins’ka holds a doctoral degree in medical law (Uppsala University, 2018). Her doctoral thesis concerns the capacity assessments to decide on medical treatment within national and international human rights law. From 2020 to 2022, she worked

https://www.law.lu.se/article/new-associate-professor-public-law - 2025-04-27

By ellen [dot] albertsdottir [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Ellen Albertsdóttir) - published 20 March 2023 The issue of vulnerable working conditions in health and social care professions was raised during the pandemic. The pandemic highlighted a number of serious problems in the working conditions of those working in care. A major new EU-funded research project will investigate the working condition

https://www.law.lu.se/article/working-conditions-care-workers-be-studied-eu - 2025-04-27

Published 26 November 2020 Join us for a digital seminar on the occasion of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's 100th anniversary, post-colonial leader and the founder of Bangladesh. Register here to attend the Zoom Webinar.The speakers will also present Anisur Rahman's book Jag är Sheikh Mujib. Bengali-Swedish author Rahman's epic monologue I Am Sheikh Mujib depicts the twentieth century freedom

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Published 22 April 2016 Dr. Anindita Majumdar from Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, Manipal University, India. holds a SASNET/Gender studies lecture at Lund University on Wednesday 27 April 2016, 15.00–17.00.The seminar, is entitled ” Conflicted Kinship in a Transnational World”. Venue: Room 221, Department of Gender Studies, Allhelgona Kyrkogata 14M, Lund. This is an ethnographic stu

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Published 21 December 2020 The Chakra - Nordic Journal of South Asian Studies's Special Issue "Articulations of a Pandemic" is now available on our website. Earlier this year, SASNET had published a call for papers focusing on social-political, cultural, economic, and psychological cost of COVID-19 as well as the question of how to do proper research in area studies in times when we cannot be mobi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/chakra-special-issue-published - 2025-04-27

Published 23 April 2016 Guest lecture to be held by Professor David Ludden on April 27 at University of Copenhagen David Ludden, Professor of Political Economy and Globalization and Chair of the Department of History at New York University, holds an open lecture entitled: History Inside Globalization: Spatial Power and Inequity in Asia at University of Copenhagen on 27 April 2016, 9.00-11.00. The

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Published 29 December 2020 Dr. Kristina Myrvold, Visiting Professor at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, was awarded a grant by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ). Dr. Myrvold received funding for her project "Iconic Scriptures in Colonial Punjab: Sikh Religion, Print Culture, and Politics" (project description below). For many years, her research has been focusing on int

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Published 4 February 2021 The year 2020 has not been without challenges, but at SASNET we have succeeded in continuing to build knowledge and research on the South Asian region through a variety of formats and international collaborations. 2020 was a turbulent year, but despite the pandemic-related challenges, we at SASNET can look back on a wide range of activities carried out to bolster knowledg

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-activity-report-2020-published - 2025-04-27