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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 - 2025-12-27

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 - 2025-12-27

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 - 2025-12-27

Associate Professor Rustam Urinboyev spent more than five years studying the experiences and life stories of Uzbek migrant workers in Moscow. In the book Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia, he reveals how migrants navigate an ever-changing migration system pervaded by corruption. From April to November, working age men are rare in the Fergana Valley in

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/imagination-and-creative-navigation-simplifies-life-central-asian-migrants-russia - 2025-12-27

For 13 years, Sociology of Law Professor Per Wickenberg ran a training programme implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in schools and education in 16 countries around the world. The effort enrolled more than 500 people from 29 countries, who initiated hundreds of local projects to better the lives children. It started in 2003. Sweden´s Government Agency for Development Cooperat

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/looking-back-and-forward-furthering-rights-children - 2025-12-27

Unfamiliarity with the local language and regulations make immigrants vulnerable to over-indebtedness. The condition puts them at risk of social and financial exclusion, which negatively affects their integration in the host country. Indebtedness among European households rose considerably during the economic crisis of 2007-2008. A 2016 study by Eurofound concludes that more than half of the Greek

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/how-economic-insecurity-hinders-integration-immigrants - 2025-12-27

On Friday, May 7, Ph.D. student Peter Bergwall at the Sociology of Law Department successfully defended his doctoral thesis “Exploring paths of justice in the digital healthcare”. Since 2016, Peter Bergwall has studied healthcare services provided via smartphone apps. During the span of his Ph.D., online doctors in Sweden have gone from a marginal phenomenon to an accessible mainstream service tha

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/peter-bergwall-now-doctor-sociology-law - 2025-12-27

The distinguished socio-legal scholar Thomas Mathiesen died on Saturday, May 29. He was 87 years old. Thomas Mathiesen received his doctorate from the University of Oslo in 1965 with the dissertation The Defenses of the Weak, which examined the Norwegian prison service. Three years later, he founded the Norwegian Association for Criminal Reform (KROM), with the intent to reform the prison system.

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/honorary-doctor-faculty-social-sciences-has-passed-away - 2025-12-27

Swedish healthcare is supposed to be guided by a principle of need, treating the most urgent cases first. Political reforms in recent decades have also introduced freedom of choice as a guiding principle. The rise of online doctor services on the healthcare market has made it clear that the two principles clash, suggests sociologist of law Peter Bergwall, who recently defended his dissertation on

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/online-doctors-expose-deficiencies-swedish-healthcare-system - 2025-12-27

The Sociology of Law Department’s researcher Jannice Käll proposes how Nordic feminist theory and new materialist feminist theory can reach further in a call for feminist justice by considering their differences. In a recent article in Nordic Journal on Law and Society, Jannice Käll presents a concept of justice based on a fusing of Nordic feminist perspectives of law with the new materialism and

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-materialism-and-nordic-feminism-co-working-new-perspective-justice - 2025-12-27

The mandate Head of Department rarely spans more than six years. Matthias Baier held it at the Sociology of Law Department for eleven. This spring, the former prefect resumed his position as Senior Lecturer. Accompanied by his partner and two dogs in their rural home outside of Lund, Matthias Baier spent the spring semester phasing himself out of the department's top managerial position and back t

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/matthias-baier-has-stepped-down-head-department-and-back-classroom - 2025-12-27

The ecological consequences of animal agriculture present an acute challenge for how we legislate to protect cows, pigs, and other farmed animals. Research at the Sociology of Law Department suggests abandoning human-centred perspectives, thus calling for a new paradigm that recognizes the ethical significance of all animals as world-making beings. It has been estimated that about 72 billion land

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/laws-failure-protect-farmed-animals-has-dire-consequences-both-human-and-nonhuman-life - 2025-12-27

A month has passed since the start of the autumn semester. By now, the Sociology of Law Department's two guest professors, Anna Lundberg and Ole Hammerslev, are deeply embedded in the institution, where they will stay until June 2022. Anna Lundberg, who started on 1 July, is Professor of Welfare Law and Associate Professor in Human Rights at Linköping University. At the Sociology of Law Department

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/these-are-sociology-law-departments-guest-professors - 2025-12-27

On Friday, December 3, Mikael Lundholm’s eight-year doctoral education ended with a successful defence of his thesis “The Social Contingency of Law: Studies of Social Control during Foreclosure in Sweden”. Mikael Lundholm’s thesis defence was the Sociology of Law Department’s first on-campus since social restrictions were prescribed at Lund University in the spring of 2019 to mitigate the spread o

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/now-it-doctor-mikael-lundholm - 2025-12-27

It took Swedish prosecutors six years to prepare the criminal case against former executives of Telia Company for paying several hundred million USD in bribes in Uzbekistan. The Sociology of Law Department's researcher Isabel Schoultz attended the trial to study the defence strategies of the accused. In September 2018, three former top executives of the Swedish telecommunications company Telia Com

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/how-corporate-executives-beat-corruption-charges-performing-unbeloning-court - 2025-12-27

Through her work, Professor Cenci Nilsson has developed preclinical models mimicking the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia, exploiting these models to discover disease mechanisms and new therapeutic approaches. With this motivation, MultiPark’s coordinator was awarded the 2022 Bengt Falck Prize in Neuroscience. In this extensive interview, Angela Cenci Nilsson shares he

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/multiparks-coordinator-awarded-bengt-falck-prize-neuroscience - 2025-12-27

Imaging methods are valuable tools for understanding neurodegenerative diseases and monitoring the therapeutic effects of new treatments. That is why MultiPark researchers with expertise in clinical imaging gather across research groups. Clinical imaging methods is a new special interest group (SIG) addressing scientific and technological needs to apply these methods in research. Nicola Spotorno t

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/clinical-imaging-methods-special-interest-group - 2025-12-27

People with Parkinson´s disease (PD) often develop abnormal involuntary movements (dyskinesias) during the course of their treatment with dopaminomimetic drugs.  In this new collaborative project, Angela Cenci Nilsson (Lund), Mattias Rickhag (Copenhagen) and Gilad Silberberg (Stockholm) will unravel the connections between dyskinesia and changes in the way the cerebral cortex and the striatum proc

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/new-collaborative-project-tackles-previously-unknown-mechanisms-parkinsons-dyskinesias - 2025-12-27

Martino Avallone spent the past four years developing tools for mapping gene expression and proteins in the brain to investigate basic biological questions and to elucidate the molecular mysteries contributing to Parkinson’s disease. On 29 September, he defends his thesis work done in the Molecular Neuromodulation research group. Here, he explains the impact these tools will hopefully have in scie

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/genetic-tools-studying-parkinsons-disease-phd-interview-martino-avallone - 2025-12-27

Megg Garcia-Ryde’s thesis sheds light on the early pathological processes in Alzheimer’s disease and the interplay between neurons and microglia as the disease evolves. October 10, she defends her thesis. Now, she gives her perspectives from a close collaboration between two of MultiPark’s experimental research groups and how she brings together the expertise of both groups. Tell us about your res

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/neuroimmune-crosstalk-early-alzheimers-disease-phd-interview-megg-garcia-ryde - 2025-12-27