Research projects

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
• Hate and threats against journalists: consequences for freedom of speech and democracy (Swedish)
• How does the forced sale procedure at the Swedish Enforcement Authority affect debtors' perceptions of fairness? (Swedish)
• The Multilevel Orders of Corruption - Insights from a Post-Soviet Context
• Responses to Labour Exploitation in Sweden - Representations of Victims and Access to Justice

Current doctoral projects

The department's PhD students are engaged in many interesting doctoral projects which you will find presented on their pages below.

• Dusty Rights: Social resilience, law, and environment in Taranto, Italy
  Carlo Nicoli Aldini
   
• Hate and threats against journalists: Consequences for freedom of speech and democracy
  Oscar Björkenfeldt
   
• Inform, Nudge, Replace: How digital systems drive changes in urban behaviours
  Magnus Eriksson
   
• Caring for Animals in a Time of Ecological Disturbances: Law and the Crisis of Anthropocentrism
  Marie Leth-Espensen
   
• Law and Social Exclusion: The functioning and dysfunctions of the Swedish legal system in light of the over-indebtedness among immigrants
  Davor Vuleta
   
• Between Law and Risk
  John Woodlock