Sep
PhD start seminar: Embla Helle Nerland

PhD candidates at the Sociology of Law Department hold three seminars during their education - a start seminar, a mid-seminar, and a final seminar. Participation in seminars is an essential part of the PhD education to fully reach the learning outcomes. The seminars are always in English.
The Norwegian welfare state is built upon laws and rights. Constitutional rights outline the basic relationship between citizen and state, and administrative laws outline citizens' welfare rights and duties. Navigating these can be difficult if you do not have precise legal and
administrative knowledge. Access to legal aid, be it lawyers or other actors with specific knowledge on how to handle questions of rights and justice, is therefore important to enable people to not only have the rights on paper but to make these rights a reality. Legal aid can be considered both a prerequisite to ensure that other welfare rights are ensured and acted upon, and a right in itself, as an important part of gaining access to justice.
This thesis questions the relationship between digitalisation, datafication and justice in the welfare state context. For this paper, I will outline three (tentative, analytical) axes where questions of justice are relevant, which I aim to address through the research design.
About the event
Location:
Room M331, 3rd floor, Allhelgona kyrkogata 18 (House M), Lund
Contact:
ida [dot] nafstad [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se