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, 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 also finding its 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
- Hate and threats against journalists: consequences for freedom of speech and democracy (Swedish)
- Law in action - Policy and legal responses to the exploitation of migrant workers in the Nordic countries
- RePo: Reimagining Police and Public Safety
- Responses to Labour Exploitation in Sweden - Representations of Victims and Access to Justice
- The Multilevel Orders of Corruption - Insights from a Post-Soviet Context
Current doctoral projects
The department's PhD students are engaged in many interesting doctoral projects which you will find presented on their personal pages below.
- Hate and threats against journalists: Consequences for freedom of speech and democracy
Oscar Björkenfeldt
- Necropolitics, Juridico-political right to kill, Right to death
Cansu Bostan
- Inform, Nudge, Replace: How digital systems drive changes in urban behaviors
Magnus Eriksson
- Caring for Animals in a Time of Ecological Disturbances: Law and the Crisis of Anthropocentrism
Marie Leth-Espensen
- The Social Contingency of Law – Studies of Social Control during Foreclosure in Sweden
Mikael Lundholm
- Scale games and urban cultural governance in Bogotá (Colombia): A multiple case study
Nicolas Serrano
- Economic (un)security; What happens when migrations and latent dysfunctions of the law meet via Swedish Enforcement Authority?
Davor Vuleta
- Between Law and Risk
John Woodlock
Contact information
Ida Nafstad
Director of Research Studies
Telephone: +46 46 222 88 38
E-mail: ida [dot] nafstad [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se
