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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...
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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.
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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.
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20 May 2020
Lena Svenaeus selected for governmental expert committee
The Minister for Gender Equality, Åsa Lindhagen, has appointed Lena Svenaeus, researcher at the Sociology of Law Department, for an expert role in a commission for gender-equal lif...
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14 May 2020
How northern European welfare states exercise bureaucratic violence on asylum seekers
Three researchers within the Social Science Faculty at Lund University have compiled an anthology challenging the notion of the refugee crisis of 2015. The book also investigates h...
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24 Apr 2020
Hildur Fjóla Antonsdóttir successfully defends her doctoral thesis
Hildur Fjóla Antonsdóttir at the Sociology of Law Department defended her doctoral thesis “Decentring Criminal Law: Understandings of Justice by Victim-Survivors of Sexual Violence...
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14 Apr 2020
Sociologist of law on anticorruption assignment in Central Asia
In the end of February, Patrik Olsson, associate professor at Lund University visited Uzbekistan to discuss one of the main academic problems in the area.
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7 Feb 2020
Short and Sweet when Students Were Introduced to Department's Research
On Wednesday 29 January, the Sociology of Law Department hosted The Panorama Day, an annual relay seminar about ongoing research. For students, it was an opportunity to get an over...
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9 Dec 2019
New research project studies the effects of hateful messages on journalism
Growing amounts of hateful messages sent to journalists are threatening to undermine central democratic concepts. The extent of problem is being investigated at the Sociology of La...
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30 Oct 2019
Karsten Åström has been Awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Linköping University
The Sociology of Law Department's Professor Emeritus, Karsten Åström, has received an honorary doctorate at the Faculty of Philosophy at Linköping University.
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13 Sep 2019
Seminar on Domestic Abuse and How It Is Facilitated by Digital Technology
Renowned criminologist Dr Molly Dragiewicz, Associate Professor at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, visited Lund Univer...
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13 Sep 2019
New research on the ideology of meat-eating
Marie Leth-Espensen has co-authored an article on the recent gastronomic trend known as “New Carnivorism.”
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29 Aug 2019
Amin Parsa on legal materiality of laws of armed conflict
Amin Parsa has written the chapter ”Military Uniform and Lethal Targeting in International Law on Armed Conflict” in the newly published book Uniform: Clothing and Discipline in th...
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3 Jul 2019
Sociology of Law Department gets new address
Everything is in the same place but the address has changed. The departments visiting address is now Allhelgona Kyrkogata 18 C.
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3 May 2019
Martin Joormann has defended his thesis
Martin Joormann defended his doctoral thesis in Sociology of Law ”Legitimized Refugees: A Critical Investigation of Legitimacy Claims within the Precedents of Swedish Asylum Law” t...
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19 Feb 2019
Student of our master’s programme earns prestigious award after years of struggle for high school exam
Ghana’s “overall best student 2018” is studying Sociology of Law in Lund. Labiks’s story shows how far hard work and perseverance can get you. Ghana’s Inter Tertiary Excellence Awa...
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9 Jan 2019
New Technology Shapes our Understanding of what is Legal
ONGOING RESEARCH: Amin Parsa’s research on migration and the use of new technology in tracing mobility focuses on how the use of such technology can potentially reshape our laws.
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3 Dec 2018
Staffan Michelson has defended his thesis
Staffan Michelson defended his doctoral thesis in Sociology of Law ”Empowerment and Private Law. Civil Impetus for Sustainable Development” Friday 30th November at one o'clock in t...
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14 Nov 2018
Uzbek TV reports on our researcher's crime prevention and anti-corruption work in the country
Patrik Olsson and Rustam Urinboyev visited Tashkent in Uzbekistan in October to give policy advise on crime prevention and anti-corruption issues and were interviewed by Uzbek tele...
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6 Nov 2018
Better knowledge on child rights when 14 countries contribute to digital platform
The digital platform Child Rights Online has now been launched in 14 countries and will provide teachers and aspiring teachers with a better understanding of the Convention on the ...