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Eva Schömer has published an article in the journal Arbetsmarknad och Arbetsliv (Labour Market and Working Life), which illustrates how personal assistants experience their working environment and which opportunities they have to influence their working conditions from a socio-legal perspective. Eva Schömer links personal assistants' work experience with some of the legal requirements that apply w

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/kind-legal-no-mans-land-says-eva-schomer - 2025-11-03

Isabel Schoultz and Ida Nafstad were on an Erasmus-exchange at University of Sarajevo between 23-27 October. They visited both the Faculty for Criminal Justice Sciences and Criminology, and the Faculty of Political Science. During their stay they held lectures on topics such as Legal pluralism and laws of everyday life, Crime, control and policy and White-collar crime for bachelor and master stude

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/erasmus-exchange-university-sarajevo - 2025-11-03

Many people in Sweden do not know that they are entitled legal help through their household insurance. Doctor Isabel Schoultz reviews legal aid in Sweden in a chapter for the book Legal aid in the Nordic countries, edited by Olaf Halvorsen Rønning and Ole Hammerslev, available online as an open-access source. Today, Sweden has a combination of public and private cover for legal expenses in civil c

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/many-unaware-their-right-legal-help - 2025-11-03

On Wednesday 17th January students and researchers gathered in Stadshallen in Lund for the Sociology of Law Department's annual Panorama Day. The panorama day acts as the first meeting between students and researchers and gives students insight into the breadth of research offered by the Sociology of Law Department.Students who study Sociology of Law, both within the Criminology programme and as a

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/students-gained-insight-breadth-research - 2025-11-03

COLLABORATION WITH UZBEKISTAN: The Sociology of Law Department at Lund University and the University of World Economy and Diplomacy in Uzbekistan are closely collaborating within the Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility Programme. Both partner universities exchange academic staff, PhD students, master and undergraduate students within the Erasmus exchange programme.Staff from the Sociology of La

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/language-skills-and-international-workshop-migration-and-informality-when-interns-uzbekistan-visit - 2025-11-03

MASTER DEGREE GRADUATION CEREMONY 4 JUNE 2018. Congratulations to the first group of students who successfully completed our on-campus master’s programme in sociology of law. This interdisciplinary campus-based programme replaced the previous on-line master's programme and means the students now meet regularly for lectures and seminars at the Sociology of Law Department in Lund. The campus-based p

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/first-students-graduate-new-masters-programme - 2025-11-03

The trial against Telia and former employees who are charged with bribery after purchasing 3G licenses in Uzbekistan in 2007 begins this week. Our researcher Isabel Schoultz is in Stockholm's District Court investigating how the company is handling the crisis. – Simply put, you can say that the actual situation may have triggered crime, as it is difficult to combine high profit goals with doing bu

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/our-researcher-following-trial-against-telia - 2025-11-03

The digital platform Child Rights Online has now been launched in 14 countries and will provide teachers and aspiring teachers with a better understanding of the Convention on the Rights of the Child to offer children and young people a more inclusive and equal schooling. In recent years, the Child Rights Institute at Lund University has worked with the international digital platform Global Child

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/better-knowledge-child-rights-when-14-countries-contribute-digital-platform - 2025-11-03

Patrik Olsson and Rustam Urinboyev visited Tashkent in Uzbekistan in October to give policy advise on crime prevention and anti-corruption issues and were interviewed by Uzbek television. Two of our researchers in Sociology of Law, Senior Lecturer Patrik Olsson and Senior Research Fellow Rustam Urinboyev, are currently invited to give policy advise to the Academy of General Prosecutor’s Office of

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/uzbek-tv-reports-our-researchers-crime-prevention-and-anti-corruption-work-country - 2025-11-03

Staffan Michelson defended his doctoral thesis in Sociology of Law ”Empowerment and Private Law. Civil Impetus for Sustainable Development” Friday 30th November at one o'clock in the room Pufendorfsalen at the Faculty of Law, in Lund. The dissertation is the result of a study of private law viewed as a source of power for individuals to enhance values they favour. As an appropriate example of such

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/staffan-michelson-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-11-03

ONGOING RESEARCH: Amin Parsa’s research on migration and the use of new technology in tracing mobility focuses on how the use of such technology can potentially reshape our laws. – I want to show how our use of new technology is shaping the way that we do law, says Amin Parsa.– Generally my research is about the relationship between law and technology. Artificial intelligence and decision making t

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-technology-shapes-our-understanding-what-legal - 2025-11-03

Welfare policies across the continent are becoming increasingly nationalistic and exclusive toward racialised and poor non-citizens. A socio-legal paper published in Critical Social Policy finds that social services in Sweden and Italy are increasingly ignoring asylum-seekers, undocumented migrants, and internal European migrants when reporting cases of homelessness. The practice bars poor, racial

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/racist-and-classist-politics-behind-increased-homelessness-among-asylum-seekers-europe - 2025-11-03

The two new professors are Anna Lundberg and Ole Hammerslev, who have been guest professors at the Sociology of Law Department since the summer of 2021. On 1 September, Anna Lundberg, Associate Professor of Human Rights, will leave her professorship in Welfare Law at Linköping University and become a Professor of Sociology of Law at Lund University. At the Sociology of Law Department, she works wi

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/department-has-recruited-two-professors-sociology-law - 2025-11-03

On Friday, June 17, Cansu Bostan successfully defended her dissertation Games of Justice: Ethnographic Inquiries on Space, Subjectivity and Law in Northern Kurdistan. She is now a Doctor in Sociology of Law for all eternity. Bostan's PhD project sprung from her master's thesis in sociology of law, a gender perspective analysis of the conflict between the Kurdish PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) and

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/unanimous-committee-passed-cansu-bostan-doctorhood - 2025-11-03

On Monday, 20 June, Nicolás Serrano Cardona successfully defended his dissertation Interlegality, Municipalities and Social Change: A Sociolegal Study of the Controversy around Bullfighting in Bogotá, Colombia. He is the 59th PhD student to complete doctoral studies at the Sociology of Law Department. Serrano Cardona's dissertation aims to better understand the constraints and possibilities of mun

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/nicolas-serrano-cardona-has-received-his-doctorate-degree - 2025-11-03

The research publisher Frontiers has appointed Senior Professor Håkan Hydén as Special Chief Editor for the sociology of law section of Frontiers in Sociology. Hydén became a professor of sociology of law in 1988. His main research interest relates to norms and what motivates people to act. He has also done comparative studies of legal norms, cyber norms, and social norms. He published his most re

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/hakan-hyden-appointed-special-chief-editor-sociological-journal - 2025-11-03

On Friday, September 23, Davor Vuleta ended his nine-year doctoral education with a successful defence of his thesis "Law and Social Exclusion: The functions and dysfunctions of the Swedish legal system in light of overindebtedness among immigrants". Davor Vuleta is one of four Swedish Enforcement Authority (SEA) employees accepted as PhD students at the Sociology of Law Department in 2013. Combin

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/davor-vuleta-accepted-ranks-doctors-sociology-law - 2025-11-03

Since the invasion of Ukraine, Central Asian migrant workers in Russia have seen fewer job opportunities and lower salaries. Among those trying their luck elsewhere, Turkey has become a popular alternative, especially for women. Sociologists of law Rustamjon Urinboyev and Sherzod Eraliev recently published a book comparing the everyday lives of labour migrants in Russia and Turkey. Central Asia -

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/central-asian-migrants-lives-and-challenges-russia-and-turkey - 2025-11-03

At the end of September, Karl Dahlstrand visited Iceland to present at the international conference "Recognising Sexual Violence: Developing Pathways to Survivor-Centred Justice", organised by the University of Iceland. Karl Dahlstrand has studied crime victim compensation for over a decade. At the conference organised by the Institute for Gender, Equality and Difference (RIKK) at the University o

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/karl-dahlstrand-presented-icelandic-conference-recognising-sexual-violence - 2025-11-03

The lecturer at this year's Reza Banakar Memorial Seminar is Susan S. Silbey, Professor in Humanities, Sociology and Anthropology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Professor of Behavioral and Policy Sciences at MIT's business school Sloan School of Management. Professor Silbey's lecture, "Pragmatic Regulation: Governing Inside the House of Science", will be delivered online and ac

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/lecturer-reza-banakar-memorial-seminar-decided - 2025-11-03