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Hildur Fjóla Antonsdóttir at the Sociology of Law Department defended her doctoral thesis “Decentring Criminal Law: Understandings of Justice by Victim-Survivors of Sexual Violence and its Implications for Different Justice Strategies” on Friday, 24 April. The thesis defence was a mostly digital occasion, with Hildur Fjóla Antonsdóttir streaming from Iceland, and the discussant, Professor Clare Mc

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/hildur-fjola-antonsdottir-successfully-defends-her-doctoral-thesis - 2025-10-03

Three researchers within the Social Science Faculty at Lund University have compiled an anthology challenging the notion of the refugee crisis of 2015. The book also investigates how Germany, Sweden, and Denmark use bureaucracy to control, discipline, and shape asylum seekers’ lives. In 2015, the number of asylum seekers arriving in the EU doubled from the previous year, totalling over 1.3 million

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/how-northern-european-welfare-states-exercise-bureaucratic-violence-asylum-seekers - 2025-10-03

The Minister for Gender Equality, Åsa Lindhagen, has appointed Lena Svenaeus, researcher at the Sociology of Law Department, for an expert role in a commission for gender-equal lifetime earnings. The commission is working on proposals that may contribute to increased economic equality between women and men in the long term, a gender-equal distribution of public support measures, as well as gender-

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/lena-svenaeus-selected-governmental-expert-committee - 2025-10-03

Isabel Schoultz at the Sociology of Law Department has studied how two major Swedish companies have defended themselves against accusations of corporate crime. When corruption accusations against Swedish telecommunications provider Telia surfaced in 2012, regarding the acquisition of its business permit in Uzbekistan, the company initially denied the allegations. “I feel convinced that Telia has n

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/corporate-strategies-legitimise-potentially-criminal-business-actions - 2025-10-03

An international research project headed by the Sociology of Law Department has received sufficient funding. The Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology grants Isabel Schoultz, researcher and Associate Senior Lecturer at the Sociology of Law Department, 1,400,000 SEK (approximately 135,000 €) to fund the research project ”Law in action - Policy and legal responses to the exploitation of migr

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/investigating-legal-responses-migrant-worker-exploitation-nordics - 2025-10-03

A new research project aims to contribute to greater understanding between Central Asian and EU business and legal cultures, and lower the risk of foreign companies becoming involved in corruption. To achieve this, about a dozen universities in Europe and Central Asia are involved in an extensive exchange scheme of researching staff. Foreign companies establishing in Central Asia will find largely

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociology-law-department-leads-unique-effort-facilitate-business-between-eu-and-central-asia - 2025-10-03

On June 5, the Sociology of Law Department at Lund University organised the first Central Asian Law project seminar. It featured four Central Asian guest researchers who presented work relating to cultural studies, cultural branding, and corruption. Central Asian Law is a four-year research project involving six EU universities and partners from each of the five Central Asian countries. The aim is

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/culture-and-corruption-focus-first-central-asian-law-seminar - 2025-10-03

In mid-June, Amin Parsa, postdoctoral fellow at the Sociology of Law Department, participated in the “Expert Workshop on Race, Borders, and Digital Technologies”. Parsa presented parts of his research on the use and development of digital technologies of mobility monitoring within the context of the European border control. He also provided commentary on the ways in which advanced digital technolo

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/amin-parsa-contributes-un-expert-meeting-race-technology-and-international-borders - 2025-10-03

The Senior Professor featured at the Rule of Law Forum of the 2020 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. On July 10, as Håkan Hydén, Senior Professor in Sociology of Law, gave his presentation from his home office in Lund, the organisers at the China Justice Big Data Institute projected him on a massive screen somewhere in Shanghai.Hyden’s presentation focused on how digital techno

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/hakan-hyden-appears-china-speak-about-digital-technologys-effect-law - 2025-10-03

This past spring, Sociology of Law Department postdoc Jannice Käll published a critical study of property control in the online edition of Harvard International Law Journal. In “The Materiality of Data as Property”, Jannice Käll examines how in modern culture personal data is being conceived as objects separate from people – similar to how some consider the mind and the body to separate – and a re

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/similarities-between-oil-drilling-and-extraction-personal-data - 2025-10-03

Associate Senior Lecturer Isabel Schoultz and project assistant Heraclitos Muhire at the Sociology of Law Department lead the endeavour they hope will help improve labour market policies and practices, bettering the conditions for immigrated labourers. In a report published in 2019, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights found that dishonest employers across the EU hire migrant workers u

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociologists-law-investigating-migrant-worker-exploitation-nordics - 2025-10-03

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. When the coronavirus pandemic hit Russia, all correctional facilities closed to outsiders to protect the vulnerable prison population. The Rus

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/locked-lockdown - 2025-10-03

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. In the brand new, inter-European course, students learn how the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child interplays with global health, and international and national norms. The UN entered the convention into force in September 19

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/child-rights-and-global-health-interplay-new-course - 2025-10-03

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. The scientific study of Muslim family law has increased considerably since the 1970’s. Social scientists from a range of disciplines research the contextual application and impact of shari‘a on fa

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/monika-lindbekk-editor-special-issue-muslim-family-law - 2025-10-03

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. In the end of November, senior lecturer Patrik Olsson went on a digital tour covering half the planet within the span of a week to present at two conferences. On November 21, the Cuban-Per

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/patrik-olsson-globetrots-peru-uzbekistan-five-days-global-conference-tour - 2025-10-03

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. After eleven years as director and Head of Department at the Sociology of Law Department, Matthias Baier steps down to focus on the research projects "The Multil

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-head-sociology-law-department - 2025-10-03

At the end of last summer, Amin Parsa and Niklas Selberg interviewed Professor Adelle Blackett about her teaching and research on decolonization of labour law and legal education. The conversation was recently made public. On 31 August 2020, the Sociology of Law Department’s Postdoc Amin Parsa, and Niklas Selberg, lecturer at the Faculty of Law, conversed virtually with Adelle Blackett, Professor

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/decolonizing-labour-law-conversation-professor-adelle-blackett - 2025-10-03

Universities all over the world have closed their campuses and turned to digital teaching solutions. Even though students are stuck at home, the new environment may have advantages over the conventional academic setting. Martin Joormann, Postdoc at the Sociology of Law Department, represents Lund University in VirtualLAS, a digital teaching project, involving universities in five countries, initia

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/will-travel-bans-lead-more-internationalized-classrooms - 2025-10-03

High income and education level, and being married are beneficial if you end up unable to pay your mortgages. In a quantitative study published in the Journal of Consumer Policy, doctoral candidate in sociology of law Mikael Lundholm found that “higher socio-economic status is positively correlated with greater potential for compensation” during a foreclosure. He also concludes that this correlati

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/people-high-socio-economic-status-get-more-value-their-properties-when-faced-foreclosure - 2025-10-03

Increasing digitalisation and computerisation can lead to socio-legal governance problems and a dominating artificial intelligence. The Research Handbook on the Sociology of Law is here. Thirty-five authors have contributed to the book’s 30 chapters, covering historical, theoretical and methodological aspects of the socio-legal field. One of them is the Sociology of Law Department’s Professor Emer

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/we-need-sociology-algorithms - 2025-10-03