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21 Jun 2022
Nicolás Serrano Cardona has received his doctorate degree
On Monday, 20 June, Nicolás Serrano Cardona successfully defended his dissertation Interlegality, Municipalities and Social Change: A Sociolegal Study of the Controversy around Bul...
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17 Jun 2022
A unanimous committee passed Cansu Bostan into doctorhood
On Friday, June 17, Cansu Bostan successfully defended her dissertation Games of Justice: Ethnographic Inquiries on Space, Subjectivity and Law in Northern Kurdistan. She is now a ...
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16 Jun 2022
The department has recruited two professors in sociology of law
The two new professors are Anna Lundberg and Ole Hammerslev, who have been guest professors at the Sociology of Law Department since the summer of 2021.
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13 May 2022
Racist and classist politics behind increased homelessness among asylum-seekers in Europe
Welfare policies across the continent are becoming increasingly nationalistic and exclusive toward racialised and poor non-citizens.
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22 Apr 2022
Central Asian migrant workers risk mass unemployment
The economic sanctions against Russian following the invasion of Ukraine are having spillover effects in Central Asia. With the prospect of economic and social strain forcing Russi...
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28 Feb 2022
Master's student publishes bachelor thesis in international academic journal
Few bachelor theses make it to publication. But a student currently in the Master's Programme in Sociology of Law recently managed the unusual feat when an international journal pu...
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10 Jan 2022
How corporate executives beat corruption charges by performing 'unbeloning' in court
It took Swedish prosecutors six years to prepare the criminal case against former executives of Telia Company for paying several hundred million USD in bribes in Uzbekistan. The S...
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6 Dec 2021
From now on it is Doctor Mikael Lundholm
On Friday, December 3, Mikael Lundholm’s eight-year doctoral education ended with a successful defence of his thesis “The Social Contingency of Law: Studies of Social Control durin...
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27 Sep 2021
These are the Sociology of Law Department's guest professors
A month has passed since the start of the autumn semester. By now, the Sociology of Law Department's two guest professors, Anna Lundberg and Ole Hammerslev, are deeply embedded in ...
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16 Sep 2021
Law’s failure to protect farmed animals has dire consequences for both human and nonhuman life
The ecological consequences of animal agriculture present an acute challenge for how we legislate to protect cows, pigs, and other farmed animals. Research at the Sociology of Law ...