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The workshop “Law and Society in Central Asia” was held on the 24-26th of March, 2021. The workshop, held online on the Zoom platform, was the wrap-up event of the first year of the project “Central Asian Law: legal cultures and business environments in Central Asia” funded by the Marie Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange scheme within the H2020 Programme (grant acronym: Central Asian Law

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/24-26th-march-workshop - 2025-11-23

Central Asian Law project is continuing to organize capacity building and dissemination in order to communicate the project findings to different target audiences. On the 2nd of April, Central Asian Law project members held a presentation on the topic “Doing ethnographic fieldwork in non-Western contexts: Uzbekistan”. The presentation was held at the initiative of Tolibjon Mustafoev, researcher of

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/presentation-doing-ethnographic-fieldwork-non-western-contexts-uzbekistan - 2025-11-23

Press-Release about the CAL project’s first mid-term meeting Central Asian Law (CAL) project is funded by the European Commission’s H2020 MSCA-RISE programme (project number 870647). Therefore, the project is subject to project reporting and annual mid-term meetings with the project adviser from the European Commission’s Research Executive Agency (REA). The project first mid-term meeting took plac

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/central-asian-law-projects-first-mid-term-meeting-was-held-4-th-june-2021 - 2025-11-23

First informal meeting of the Central Asian Law project took place on September 19-20, 2019. This informal meeting was organized in order to discuss the project plans and coordinate research and secondment activities with project participants from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The meeting, held at Lund University in Sweden, helped to identify participants’ resear

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/central-asian-law-first-project-meeting-lund-university - 2025-11-23

Culture and corruption in focus at the first Central Asian Law seminar at Lund University, Department of Sociology of Law, June 5, 2020 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. More detailed

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/culture-and-corruption-focus - 2025-11-23

Central Asian Law project organized the conference titled “Understanding legal cultures in Central Asia” on 6-8 November in Istanbul, Turkey. The conference focused on the discussion of the interconnections between international actors, domestic institutions, business actors, as well as informal institutions and norms and how their interplay shape the governance, legal culture and business environ

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/conference-understanding-legal-cultures-central-asia-6-8-november-2021 - 2025-11-23

Central Asian Law project aims to inform the public about the research being conducted through various dissemination means. A researcher from Uzbekistan Tolibjon Mustafoev analysed Uzbekistan's ranking in Corruption Perception Index and its legal, social and business aspects. The policy brief was published in Russian language in the website of Uzbekistan's National Information Agency.  Full articl

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/corruption-perceptions-index-uzbekistan-legal-social-and-business-aspects - 2025-11-23

Central Asian Law project is continuing its capacity building and dissemination activities in order to communicate the project findings to different target audiences. On the 14th of March 2022, Central Asian Law project members held a presentation on the topic “Ethnographic Research and Fieldwork in Uzbekistan: Methodological Insights from the Central Asian Law Project”.  The presentation was orga

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/presentation-ethnographic-research-and-fieldwork-uzbekistan-methodological-insights - 2025-11-23

Central Asian Law project continues to produce knowledge about Central Asia and sharing it with other scholars in this area. Thus, on the 27th of May the project members participated in a panel discussion at an international conference “Central Asian Law Forum: Commercial Law at the Time of Change: New Imperatives and International Standards”. The conference was organised by one of the project par

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/international-conference-central-asian-law-forum-commercial-law-time-change-new-imperatives-and - 2025-11-23

Central Asian Law project delivered another workshop on the “Shadow economy, business environment and legal cultures in Central Asia”. The workshop took place at Lund University in Sweden on July 5-8, 2022. The workshop, that was held over 4 days, turned into a platform for the project participants to work on their research, exchange ideas and discuss the latest news and developments in Central As

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/project-workshop-shadow-economy-business-environment-and-legal-cultures-central-asia - 2025-11-23

On Thursday, 14th of October, 2021, the Central Asian Law project team participated in a panel session of the Central Eurasian Studies Society’s (CESS) annual conference. CESS Annual Conferences have been held at universities around North America since 2000, currently offering up to 70 panels and attracting approximately 300 participants from all over the world. The 21st CESS Annual Conference was

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/central-asian-law-project-participated-annual-cess-conference-14-17-october-2021 - 2025-11-23

Central Asian Law project researchers participated at another international conference, presenting their work carried out within the framework of the project. The 5th annual conference of the Law and Development Network named “Beyond the Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities for Law and Development” took place on the 24-26th of November, 2022 and was hosted by Nelson Mandela University (South Afric

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/central-asian-law-project-participated-annual-ldrn-conference-24-26-november-2021 - 2025-11-23

The faculty members of the Sociology of Law Department of Lund University, including Central Asian Law project team visited a school the Kullagymnasiet in Höganäs city. The visit took place on the 29th of October, 2021. The purpose of the visit and meeting students was to talk about the Agenda 2030 and Social Sustainability issues with students of high school at Kullagymnasiet. The discussion also

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/school-visit-central-asian-law-project-team-together-sociology-law-department - 2025-11-23

After the fall of the Soviet Union, political and economic developments in five Central Asian republics have evolved around two parallel and contradictory patterns. On the one hand, Central Asian countries opened up to the outside world and declared their ambition to attract FDI. On the other hand, Central Asian countries are plagued by ubiquitous corruption and informal business practices which h

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/central-asian-law-project-panel-lsa-conference-2022 - 2025-11-23

Central Asian Law team is planning to conduct country-wide survey on legal culture in Uzbekistan. The preparations are underway to conduct the survey in several regions of the country and among different strata of the population. This quantitative study aims to understand the legal culture in Uzbekistan, by testing citizens’ reactions to legal and non-legal social and moral situations in the socie

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/survey-legal-culture-uzbekistan - 2025-11-23

Central Asian Law team hosted the visit by the representatives of the newly established Embassy of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the Kingdom of Sweden. The representatives of the Embassy visited Lund University’s Sociology of Law department on the 22ndof November 2022. The chargé d'affaires of the Uzbek Embassy in Stockholm – Mr. Nodir Ganiev and the third secretary Mr. Orifjon Ismoilov held meeti

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/visit-uzbek-embassy-lund-university - 2025-11-23

With almost one year left for the end of the project “Central Asian Law: legal cultures and business environments in Central Asia”, the participants of the project are working hard to finalise their research publications. Project workshop was organised in Istanbul on January 3-4, 2023 and gathered all project participants in one place to present, discuss and prepare research papers for publication

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/central-asian-law-project-workshop-held-istanbul-january-3-4-2023 - 2025-11-23

The Sociology of Law department of Lund University hosted the conference of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL) on August 30-31 and September 1, 2023. The conference titled “Law, Society and Digital Pasts, Presents and Futures”, aimed to understand how past, present and future societies are mediated through digital technologies and law. The conference gathered socio-legal scholars fr

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/central-asian-law-project-participants-presented-their-research-rcsl-conference - 2025-11-23

The European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS) successfully hosted its highly anticipated regional conference, "Power, People, and Cultural Change in an Ever-Evolving Central Asia," held from September 21 to 24, 2023 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The event brought together esteemed scholars, researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts from across the globe to delve into the multifaceted dynamics

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/central-asian-law-project-participants-presented-their-research-escas-2023-regional-conference-0 - 2025-11-23

The Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) successfully hosted its highly anticipated annual conference held from October 19 to 22, 2023, at the University of Pittsburgh, United States. The event brought together esteemed scholars, researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts from across the globe to delve into the multifaceted dynamics of Central Eurasia’s ongoing transformation. The mission of t

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/central-asian-law-project-participants-presented-their-research-cess-annual-conference-university - 2025-11-23