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What is sociology of law?

Associate Professor Måns Svensson explains.

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Master's Programme in Sociology of Law

Litterature about the sociology of law

Stand-alone Courses

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Research Seminars

Featuring local and international researchers of law and society.

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Research Projects

Ongoing socio-legal studies at the department.

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Calendar

Apr

28 April 2021 15:00 to 18:00 | Seminar

PhD Mid Seminar - Caring for animals in a time of ecological crisis. Law, human/animal relations, and the post-domestic challenge

May

26 May 2021 13:00 to 16:00 | Seminar

PhD Final Seminar - Going once, going twice, sold! The Hammer of Law and other Social Control Responses to Foreclosures in Sweden

Sep

29 September 2021 13:00 to 16:00 | Seminar

PhD Final Seminar - Magnus Eriksson

News

Coronovirus - Information for students and employees

Information about the Lund University guidelines concerning the coronavirus.

Isabel Schoultz

21 Jan 2021 | News

This is the new Head of the Sociology of Law Department

In early December 2020, the Sociology of Law Department confirmed that a new leadership had been elected. Matthias Baier, the Head of Department at the time, had declined to run for re-election. Instead, the staff elected Isabel Schoultz.

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16 Dec 2020 | News

Patrik Olsson globetrots from Peru to Uzbekistan in five days on global conference tour

It may seem as if senior lecturer Patrik Olsson is only doing one of two things this semester: lecturing, or sitting deep under thousands of pages of take-home exams, reading and grading. It turns out he is not.

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24 Nov 2020 | News

Monika Lindbekk editor for special issue on Muslim family law

Monika Lindbekk’s editorship for Brill generated a double special issue of Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, depicting how family law is adjudicated in Muslim-majority countries.

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3 Nov 2020 | News

Child rights and global health interplay in new course

The Special Area Studies course “The UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, Children's Rights, and Global Health” starts for the first time on November 5.

Rustam Urinboyed doing fieldwork in a Russian prison.

16 Oct 2020 | News

Locked up in lockdown

Since COVID-19 spread to Russia, national authorities have cut off all access to prisons. Based on his recent research, Rustamjon Urinboyev speculates how the everyday lives of transnational Muslim prisoners in Russia are likely to have changed in lockdown.