How do rules and regulations really work in society? This afternoon, some 60 people gathered in the University building in Lund to discuss the subject sociology of law and the question of how the law works in society.

The Sociology of Law Department had invited our broad network, including the workplaces that have offered our students internships, for an afternoon of presentations, panel discussions and mingling.

The afternoon was opened by Associate Professor Måns Svensson who said sociology of law is for him about compliance.

- Laws and regulations themselves do not achieve much when they are not used or do not function properly in society. I am interested in why people obey the law. What is it that makes people choose to follow the law?

The panel, led by journalist Andreas Ekström, was in agreement concerning the law's inability to keep up when society becomes digitized. Counsel Ulrika Rogland talked about children and changing norms.

- Sending so-called dickpics has become so normal that children do not react to them. The children think it is ok to send these kind of pictures.

- The Internet has become the young people's and the children's home ground. Adults are not keeping up and so new norms are being created that we are not even involved in, said Ulrika Rogland.