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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 ...
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14 Sep 2021
Matthias Baier has stepped down as Head of Department and back into the classroom
The mandate Head of Department rarely spans more than six years. Matthias Baier held it at the Sociology of Law Department for eleven. This spring, the former prefect resumed his p...
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9 Jul 2021
New materialism and Nordic feminism co-working for a new perspective on justice
The Sociology of Law Department’s researcher Jannice Käll proposes how Nordic feminist theory and new materialist feminist theory can reach further in a call for feminist justice b...
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29 Jun 2021
Online doctors expose deficiencies in the Swedish healthcare system
Swedish healthcare is supposed to be guided by a principle of need, treating the most urgent cases first. Political reforms in recent decades have also introduced freedom of choice...
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1 Jun 2021
Honorary doctor at the Faculty of Social Sciences has passed away
The distinguished socio-legal scholar Thomas Mathiesen died on Saturday, May 29. He was 87 years old.
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7 May 2021
Peter Bergwall is now a Doctor of Sociology of Law
On Friday, May 7, Ph.D. student Peter Bergwall at the Sociology of Law Department successfully defended his doctoral thesis “Exploring paths of justice in the digital healthcare”.
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14 Apr 2021
How economic insecurity hinders the integration of immigrants
Unfamiliarity with the local language and regulations make immigrants vulnerable to over-indebtedness. The condition puts them at risk of social and financial exclusion, which nega...
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23 Mar 2021
Looking back and forward on furthering the rights of children
For 13 years, Sociology of Law Professor Per Wickenberg ran a training programme implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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9 Mar 2021
Imagination and creative navigation simplifies life for Central Asian migrants in Russia
Associate Professor Rustam Urinboyev spent more than five years studying the experiences and life stories of Uzbek migrant workers in Moscow. In the book Migration and Hybrid Polit...