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Information for journalists We can help you clarify and analyze the cause or functionality of laws, rules and norms. Contact the listed researchers concerning topics related to their expertise. You can also contact the Sociology of Law Department concerning topics not listed.For high-resolution photos of the department staff, contact theo [dot] hagman-rogowski [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se. Courts

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The Social Sciences Faculty Library The Social Sciences Faculty Library (Samhällsvetenskapliga fakultetens bibliotek or Sambib) The Sociology of Law Department belongs to The Social Sciences Faculty Library (Samhällsvetenskapliga fakultetens bibliotek or Sambib). This is where you find course literature and reference literature and other publications in your subject area. The library reading rooms

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- The Master's Programme in Sociology of Law As part of your application for the Master's Programme in Sociology of Law, we require a statement of purpose. This also applies to Swedish citizens and non-citizens with a bachelor's degree from a Swedish university. Dear applicant,Thank you for considering us for your master's studies. As part of your application, please carefully complete this statem

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Opening doors to a creative research environment The doctoral (PhD) programme consists of four years of full-time studies (240 credits). The studies can also be carried out part-time (at least half-time) and cover eight years. As a doctoral candidate, you have the right, but not the obligation, to take a licentiate degree (120 credits) as a stage in the doctoral programme.Admission Requirements fo

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/research/doctoral-studies - 2026-08-11

- The Master's Programme in Sociology of Law You apply to the internship course by filling out the form below. When it has been reviewed by the master's programme administrator, you receive the internship plan template to fill out. The course director decides whether the internship will be approved. To this end, make sure to show in the internship plan that you, through your internship, are going

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In accordance with "Policies for the doctoral program in sociology of law, 2009-­‐08-­‐24" the PhD Candidate shall hold at least three doctoral seminars during the education period; start-­‐up seminar, mid seminar and final seminar. All PhD Candidates shall take part in seminars. Participation and presentation in seminars are essential parts of the PhD education to fully reach the learning outcome

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/research/doctoral-studies/phd-handbook/guidelines-phd-seminars-department-sociology-law - 2026-08-11

Legal struggles and strategies in the Lundin case The project aims to understand the strategies of, and struggles between, the legal actors in the criminal trial of Orrön Energy (previously Lundin Energy, Lundin Petroleum and Lundin Oil) and two of its representatives for aiding a severe breach of international law in Sudan in the years 1999-2003. We are interested in understanding the legal argum

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/justice-and-accountability-business-involvement-international-crimes - 2026-08-11

A study of professional knowledge used by lawyers when making court decisions Funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). Colleagues Karsten Åström and Eva Friis are currently working together researching Expert knowledge as a basis for judicial decisions.The overall aim of the project is to describe and analyse how expert knowledge is transferred to and used by lawyers when making d

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/expert-knowledge-court - 2026-08-11

Academic visitors are an important part of the Sociology of Law Department’s daily activities and we make an effort to integrate our visitors into the intellectual and social life of both the Department and Lund University. We provide all visitors with a workspace in a shared office and access to internet connections, university libraries, seminars, and lectures. Our visitors are considered full m

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For employees at the sociology of law department Health and safety representativesMichael MolaviAnette SallingIT support for staffLDC ServicedeskE-mail: servicedesk [at] ldc [dot] lu [dot] seCaretakerMagnus CsurolyaiE-mail: magnus [dot] csurolyai [at] service [dot] lu [dot] se (magnus[dot]csurolyai[at]service[dot]lu[dot]se)Tel: +46 72-716 77 38Administration for staffInternal mailing codeCode 35Ec

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Lund is the only university in Scandinavia and Europe to offer a complete training in the Sociology of Law, from undergraduate through to professional degrees. Education in English is only available at the master's level. ProgrammeSASOL Master’s Programme in Sociology of Law1-2 years • Master's level • 120 credits CoursesCritical Perspectives on Criminal Justice and Social ControlMaster's level •

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CRE-AI is a two year postdoc project (Sociology of Law, Univeristy of Lund, Sweden, Feb 2019-2021) on the legal and societal implications of so-called creative or generative Artificial Intelligence, notably Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). By blurring the distinction between fake and real ('deepfakes'), and its capacity to compose convincing new variations on existing patterns, generative A

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/cre-ai-legal-and-societal-implications-generative-machine-learning-aka-creative-artificial - 2026-08-11

The research project ”Socio-legal study on the public’s sense of justice and criminal injuries compensation. A follow-up.” It is a longitudinal study in which a few central results from the PhD dissertation “Socio-legal study on the public’s sense of justice and criminal injuries compensation” is followed up after approximately ten years. The aim is primarily to investigate how survey respondents

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/socio-legal-study-publics-sense-justice-and-criminal-injuries-compensation-follow - 2026-08-11

The demographic transition of society and new technology contribute to exponential accumulation of micro-data in healthcare registers. Novel usage of artificially intelligent decision aids, applied on the Swedish register infrastructure, holds promises for improved quality and efficiency of healthcare. Focussing on cardiometabolic diseases, AIR Lund will critically assess the added value of machin

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/air-lund-artificially-intelligent-use-registers - 2026-08-11

Digitalization enables machines to make, or contribute to, ever more complex decisions with ever higher stakes. This imposes the question of legal responsibility for digitalized decision-making on us all. Our project inquires whether digitalization is a threat to long-established models of legal thinking, reasoning and adjudicating, and, if so, why that is and what can be done about it. Our focus

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/digitalization-and-legal-responsibility - 2026-08-11

This project aims to examine undocumented labour migrants’ legal culture and socio-legal integration in a politically hybrid regime. The project uses the case of Russia, a hybrid political regime and the world’s second largest recipient of labour migrants, to investigate how undocumented migrants negotiate and manoeuvre around the restrictive socio-legal environment through producing new ways of i

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/migration-shadow-economy-and-parallel-legal-orders-russia - 2026-08-11

Roma victims in Swedish criminal courts. The Swedish legal model is historically, and according to traditional jurisprudence, characterized as monocentric and uniform, tightly connected to the nation-state. This legal identity is challenged by an increasingly diverse contemporary legal situation, with the development of a multicultural, globalized and pluralistic society.Encounters between Roma le

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/romas-victims-swedish-criminal-courts - 2026-08-11

The project’s objective is to study the strategies employed by three businesses (Telia Sonera, Lundin Petroleum and Stora Enso) when defending themselves against allegations of crime. Is it possible to distinguish differences in the companies’ defence strategies across different periods of time, in different forums and in relation to different target groups? How may institutional and social struct

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/business-usual-corporate-defence-strategies-against-accusations-crime - 2026-08-11

- Adjudicating Islamic Family Law in Egypt: Continuity and Rupture A post-doctoral research project focusing on adjudication of Muslim marriage and divorce law by Egyptian courts before and after the 2011 revolution. More generally, the research focuses on the intersection between law, religion, and gender in this field. The overall aim of the project is to contribute to the scholarly literature o

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/islamic-law-egypt - 2026-08-11

- Insights from a Post-Soviet Context This is a study on the multilevel orders of corruption. The project-administrating organisation is the Department of Sociology of Law, Lund University. The overall purpose of the project is to further contribute to the global and national efforts of understanding and counteracting corruption and its societal implications. The project challenges the conventiona

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/multilevel-orders-corruption - 2026-08-11