The Faculty of Law promotes an innovative and creative environment with space for change and opportunity for development for all, employees as well as students. Different backgrounds, experiences, knowledge and personalities are important to foster a dynamic environment and stimulate innovative thinking.Respect, tolerance and consideration are to be appled in all relations along with a shared assu

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Did you study law and detected something in your education that needs to be thought through further, supplemented or questioned? Maybe there is a particular legal or societal development that interests you? As a researcher, you have great freedom to decide your own research focus, both with regard to the choice of subject and how the work is to be conducted. Few professional roles have such freedo

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Do you want to advance your research career in law and be part of an outstanding research environment? Here you will find answers to frequently asked questions about the admission process and the requirements for admission. When are the announcements for employment as a doctoral student made? Announcements for employment as a doctoral student are made twice a year, at the beginning of the spring t

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Here is a list of our partner universities. AustriaUniversität WienAustraliaUniversity of Western AustraliaBelgiumGhent UniversityKU LeuvenUniversity of AntwerpBrazilFundação Getulio Vargas Rio de Janeiro Law SchoolCanadaSchulich School of Law of Dalhousie UniversityMcGill UniversityOsgoode Hall Law School of York UniversityQueen's University at Kingston Faculty of LawUniversity of SaskatchewanChi

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Once you have completed all your courses and all the final grades are reported by your lecturers into the student register Ladok, you need to apply for the degree certificate. It is issued free of charge upon request and it is written in both English and Swedish.Lund University issues digital degrees. If your application for a degree certificate is approved, you will be notified by email. You can

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There are as many stories about being a doctoral student as there are doctoral students. Here, some of them share their stories. We also get to hear the supervisor's perspective. Sofia Åkerman, PhD student Photo: Kennet Ruona Sofia, what led you to choose to pursue a doctoral education?   – When I had just graduated and was faced with choosing a career path, I was a single parent with two young ch

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We offer doctoral students a structured and effective education through individual study plans, supervision, and mandatory courses. Individual Study PlanThe individual study plan includes a timeline for the doctoral student's education, information about supervision arrangements, description of commitments for both the student and the board, and other factors necessary to ensure an efficient educa

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Alumni Honorary Doctorates Consultative Opinions

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Our doctoral students work on various subjects spanning a range of overarching themes. All links lead to ongoing doctoral projects in the Research Portal. Sigrid Nikka: Straffskärpningar och straffrättens gränserSarah de Heer: Autonomous decision-making systems in precision medicine from placement on the market to use: challenges to and opportunities for the right to good administrationJohan Herma

https://www.law.lu.se/research/doctoral-studies/phd-thesis-projects - 2025-08-03

The 11th International Conference on Forensic Inference and Statistics will take place June 12-15, 2023 at Faculty of Law (Juridicum), Lund University, Sweden. Lund is a city in the most southern county of Sweden, 35 minutes by train from Copenhagen Airport in Denmark. This international conference - in short ICFIS2023 - unites lawyers, statisticians and forensic scientists in their interest in op

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The PhD thesis defence is a seminar where the doctoral student presents his or her thesis in public in the presence of an expert in the field from another university, known as the opponent. The opponent is officially appointed by the Faculty Board. The Faculty Board also appoints a chairman of the public defence and an examining board. The examining board evaluates the thesis and the candidate's d

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Law permeates all human activity, from matters on the level of the individual to issues of major societal, political and economic significance, nationally and internationally. Legal research affects and can improve people’s lives and societal development. As the complexity of the surrounding world increases, so do the demands on and the significance of our research. The urgent research issues of t

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Humanity is waging war on nature. This is suicidal. Nature always strikes back – and it is already doing so with growing force and fury. Biodiversity is collapsing. One million species are at risk of extinction. Ecosystems are disappearing before our eyes … Human activities are at the root of our descent toward chaos. But that means human action can help to solve it.  The above cry for action come

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EU law is also Swedish law, which means that it also forms an important part of our teaching and research. The EU law research environment includes topics in labour law, constitutional law, human rights, migration law, competition law and environmental law. This means that the research environment has a variety of experts who can contribute knowledge in different areas of EU law. Nordic Journal of

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The quality of education is evaluated every six years. The most recent evaluation of doctoral education at the Faculty of Law took place in 2019-2020. A comprehensive self-assessment report (completed on 22 January 2020) formed the basis for an external review conducted by Professor Inger Johanne Sand, University of Oslo, and Professor Henrik Palmer Olsen, University of Copenhagen. They completed

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The healthcare sector faces significant challenges in the coming years. There is an increased need for research with legal elements within the otherwise traditional medical and social sciences research. Particularly worrying is the changing population structure, which is expected to have significant consequences for society, not least because the consumption of care for the elderly population cons

https://www.law.lu.se/research/research-environments/health-law-research-centre - 2025-08-03

Opening hours in the library Summer opening hours:Monday-Friday: 9-16Saturday-Sunday: ClosedNote! The library basement is closed for renovation June 23 - July 31.Summer loan 22/5-3/9. Applies to Law Library books borrowed by students and to all course books. LUBsearch Search among the digital books and articles available at Lund university. Databases A-Ö Databases useful in legal studies and resea

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Human rights law is a broad area of research that addresses and critically examines issues and problems arising in ongoing efforts to secure full protection of human rights in different contexts, whether it is in the workplace, healthcare, or foreign affairs, and in relation to different actors (both states and non-state actors, such as corporations). The research area covers questions of how to p

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The Research Committee is an advisory body whose main task is to assist the department's researchers with advice in connection with applications for external research grants. To this end, the Research Committee disseminates ongoing information on funding opportunities, as well as reading and commenting on draft applications. The Research Committee also has the task of reporting on the department's

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The last years the department has been very successful when it comes to external funding of research projects. Right now, we have about 60 projects running. To make the project administration more effective and give you the best service, the projects are divided between our two financial officers.   Those listed below should contact Sofie Lindmark with all questions regarding running projects and

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