Sociology of Law Department

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Research Seminar, 25/5

13:00-15:00 with guest doctoral student Hedvig Obenius

PhD start-up seminar, 6/1

13:00-16:00, with Carlo Nicoli Aldini

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What is sociology of law?

Associate Professor Måns Svensson explains.

Master's Programme in Sociology of Law

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Featuring local and international researchers of law and society.

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Ongoing socio-legal studies at the department.

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News

A bed and blankets set up outside on a street.

13 May 2022 | News

Racist and classist politics behind increased homelessness among asylum-seekers in Europe

Welfare policies across the continent are becoming increasingly nationalistic and exclusive toward racialised and poor non-citizens.

Men in orange visibility vests standing around a construction site under a grey sky.

22 Apr 2022 | News

Central Asian migrant workers risk mass unemployment

The economic sanctions against Russian following the invasion of Ukraine are having spillover effects in Central Asia. With the prospect of economic and social strain forcing Russian employers to lay off migrant workers, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan are preparing to receive high numbers of...

Alena Kahle next to the front page of the journal.

28 Feb 2022 | News

Master's student publishes bachelor thesis in international academic journal

Few bachelor theses make it to publication. But a student currently in the Master's Programme in Sociology of Law recently managed the unusual feat when an international journal published a reworked version of her bachelor's project.

10 Jan 2022 | News

How corporate executives beat corruption charges by performing 'unbeloning' in court

It took Swedish prosecutors six years to prepare the criminal case against former executives of Telia Company for paying several hundred million USD in bribes in Uzbekistan. The Sociology of Law Department's researcher Isabel Schoultz attended the trial to study the defence strategies of the accuse...

Mikael Lundholm listening to the comments of Professor Åsa Gunnarsson. Professor Måns Svensson stands with arms crossed in the background.

6 Dec 2021 | News

From now on it is Doctor Mikael Lundholm

On Friday, December 3, Mikael Lundholm’s eight-year doctoral education ended with a successful defence of his thesis “The Social Contingency of Law: Studies of Social Control during Foreclosure in Sweden”.

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