Research projects
Gaining knowledge about law in society
Researching the legal system's possibilities, limitations and dependence on the surrounding community. What part do norms, rules and laws play in the family environment, at school, at work or in society as a whole?
At the Sociology of Law Department, family research coexists with research on public construction contracts; and the informal workers' situation in Colombia is examined at the same time as digital norms and gender. Research is also carried out on socio-legal theory, social welfare and many other areas.
Our research has a wide span, which contributes to interesting discussions while finding common ground in its examination of law and norms.
Active research projects
- Administrative Law Reform and Legal Integration in Hybrid Political Regimes
- Asylum Appeals in Denmark, Germany and Sweden: A Socio-Legal Cartography
- Central Asian Law: Legal Cultures and Business Environments in Central Asia
- Digitalization and Legal Responsibility
- Från stat/region till näringsliv. En studie om svensk reglering av offentliga ämbetspersoners och förtroendevaldas sidbyten (Swedish)
- Informality, Migrant Precarity and Exploitation in Nordic Context: Uzbek Migrant Workers in Sweden and Finland
- ICARUS: Illuminating power dynamics in Cross-scale Adaptation for more Resilient and Just
- Justice and accountability for business involvement in international crimes: Legal struggles and strategies in the Lundin case
- Kartläggning av kommunalt och regionalt tillgänglighetsarbete (Swedish)
- MOCCA: Multilevel Orders of Corruption in Central Asia
- More than green - Lighthouses of transformative nature-based solutions for inclusive communities
- The Multilevel Orders of Corruption - Insights from a Post-Soviet Context
- Responses to Labour Exploitation in Sweden - Representations of Victims and Access to Justice
- Revolving doors to the private sector? A sociolegal study on top state and region officials' transitions to the private sector and their regulation
Current doctoral projects
The department's PhD students are engaged in many interesting doctoral projects, which are presented on their pages below.
- Steel fighting: Legal mobilization in Taranto and Italy’s Southern Question
Carlo Nicoli Aldini
- Inform, Nudge, Replace: How digital systems drive changes in urban behaviours
Magnus Eriksson
- Revolving doors to the private sector? A sociolegal study on top state and region officials' transitions to the private sector and their regulation
Heraclitos Muhire
- (De)constructing the concealment of domestic violence in family law – A study of German child custody disputes and alternative realities after gendered violence
Lisa Schmitz
- Feeling queer, feeling real: Affective economies of truth in queer asylum politics
Sophia Zisakou
Contact information
Ole Hammerslev
Director of Research Studies
E-mail: ole [dot] hammerslev [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (ole[dot]hammerslev[at]soclaw[dot]lu[dot]se)
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