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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...

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.

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...

3 Mar 2021

We need a sociology of algorithms

Increasing digitalisation and computerisation can lead to socio-legal governance problems and a dominating artificial intelligence.

17 Feb 2021

People with high socio-economic status get more value for their properties when faced with foreclosure

High income and education level, and being married are beneficial if you end up unable to pay your mortgages.

3 Feb 2021

Will travel bans lead to more internationalized classrooms?

Universities all over the world have closed their campuses and turned to digital teaching solutions. Even though students are stuck at home, the new environment may have advantages...

29 Jan 2021

Decolonizing Labour Law: A Conversation with Professor Adelle Blackett

At the end of last summer, Amin Parsa and Niklas Selberg interviewed Professor Adelle Blackett about her teaching and research on decolonization of labour law and legal education. ...

21 Jan 2021

This is the new Head of the Sociology of Law Department

In early December 2020, the Sociology of Law Department confirmed that a new leadership had been elected. Matthias Baier, the Head of Department at the time, had declined to run fo...

16 Dec 2020

Patrik Olsson globetrots from Peru to Uzbekistan in five days on global conference tour

It may seem as if senior lecturer Patrik Olsson is only doing one of two things this semester: lecturing, or sitting deep under thousands of pages of take-home exams, reading and g...

24 Nov 2020

Monika Lindbekk editor for special issue on Muslim family law

Monika Lindbekk’s editorship for Brill generated a double special issue of Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, depicting how family law is adjudicated in Mus...

3 Nov 2020

Child rights and global health interplay in new course

The Special Area Studies course “The UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, Children's Rights, and Global Health” starts for the first time on November 5.

16 Oct 2020

Locked up in lockdown

Since COVID-19 spread to Russia, national authorities have cut off all access to prisons. Based on his recent research, Rustamjon Urinboyev speculates how the everyday lives of tra...

9 Sep 2020

Sociologists of law investigating migrant worker exploitation in the Nordics

Associate Senior Lecturer Isabel Schoultz and project assistant Heraclitos Muhire at the Sociology of Law Department lead the endeavour they hope will help improve labour market po...

31 Aug 2020

Similarities between oil drilling and the extraction of personal data

This past spring, Sociology of Law Department postdoc Jannice Käll published a critical study of property control in the online edition of Harvard International Law Journal.

22 Jul 2020

Håkan Hydén appears in China to speak about digital technology’s effect on law

The Senior Professor featured at the Rule of Law Forum of the 2020 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai.

2 Jul 2020

Amin Parsa contributes to UN expert meeting on race, technology and international borders

23 Jun 2020

Culture and corruption in focus at the first Central Asian Law seminar

On June 5, the Sociology of Law Department at Lund University organised the first Central Asian Law project seminar. It featured four Central Asian guest researchers who presented ...

11 Jun 2020

Sociology of Law Department leads unique effort to facilitate business between EU and Central Asia

A new research project aims to contribute to greater understanding between Central Asian and EU business and legal cultures, and lower the risk of foreign companies becoming involv...

3 Jun 2020

Investigating legal responses to migrant worker exploitation in the Nordics

An international research project headed by the Sociology of Law Department has received sufficient funding.

28 May 2020

Corporate strategies to legitimise potentially criminal business actions

Isabel Schoultz at the Sociology of Law Department has studied how two major Swedish companies have defended themselves against accusations of corporate crime.