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The Sociology of Law Department received four positive answers for funding requests this month. The Crafoord Foundation funds Anna Lundberg's ”Public employees’ mobilization against the Informers Act” project with 500,000 SEK. Information about the research will be available later this year.They also granted Jannice Käll 200,000 SEK for the organisation of Critical Legal Conference 2024: Speculati

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/several-successful-grant-applications-june - 2026-06-25

On Friday, September 13, Oscar Björkenfeldt successfully defended his thesis, "Online Harassment Against Journalists: A Socio-Legal and Working-Life Study of the Challenges and Impacts in Swedish Journalism". By integrating sociology of law and work-life science, Oscar Björkenfeldt developed insights into how online harassment targeting journalists influences journalistic practices.Björkenfeldt us

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/oscar-bjorkenfeldt-completes-doctoral-student-programme - 2026-06-25

The Sociology of Law Department receives 50,000 SEK (€4,300) in faculty mobility funds to invite Sergio Jarillo de la Torre, a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Geography, University of Melbourne. His background is in social anthropology, law, and art history, and he has spent over ten years doing fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, the Marshall  Islands and Mozambique.During his two-week s

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/department-granted-funds-invite-researcher-university-melbourne - 2026-06-25

Ana Maria Vargas Falla was Lund University's only representative at COP29 in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. She has researched public resistance and acceptance of climate legislation and contributed to the "10 new insights in climate science" presented during the climate summit. These are her impressions of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. I was initially very sceptical about having

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/ana-maria-vargas-falla-reflects-cop29 - 2026-06-25

Michael Molavi and Isabel Schoultz have received a major research grant from the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Programme. Together with newly hired post-doctoral researcher, Elin Jönsson, they will study how ongoing de-democratisation processes affect protest cultures and how these effects comparatively vary across Europe. Europe is experiencing a steady democratic decline. The trend is dis

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/eu-funds-research-about-democratic-decline-and-protest-culture - 2026-06-25

Climate change is a reality for communities globally, forcing governments and international agencies to propose climate adaptation measures. For many people, these top-down approaches don't always align with their needs, values or legal rights. Ana Maria Vargas is one of the researchers in the project "Everyday forms of resistance to state adaptation regulation: An ethnographic study of responses

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/the-justice-in-resisting-climate-change-policies - 2026-06-25

In October last year, the Sociology of Law Department's researcher and senior lecturer Patrik Olsson was invited to a conference in Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent to contribute with expertise on the country's social and political development. On October 24, 2024, an international conference on the topic "Development of Free Civil Society and Non-Governmental Non-Profit Organizations" was held in Ta

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/patrik-olsson-invited-uzbekistan-expert-civil-society-and-non-profit-development - 2026-06-25

For generations, Indigenous and riverine communities in the Amazon have relied on deep ecological knowledge to live in harmony with the rainforest. But, as climate disasters reshape the woodlands, local expertise is often overlooked in environmental policies and scientific studies. A new research project aims to change that. In 2023 and 2024, the Amazon faced severe droughts. Rivers dried up, cutt

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-project-aims-bridge-climate-policy-and-indigenous-knowledge-amazon - 2026-06-25

The prize, one of the leading international honours in socio-legal studies, recognises Hydén’s long impact on the field, both as a pioneering theorist and an influential mentor. In their award citation, the jury lauds Professor Emeritus Håkan Hydén for promoting the establishment of sociology of law as an autonomous social science and developing it into what he has defined as a science of norms. H

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/hakan-hyden-awarded-podgorecki-prize - 2026-06-25

She will contribute part-time to the Sociology of Law Department for two years. The recruitment is part of the Lund University Programme for Global Excellence, the University's largest international recruitment initiative to date. Victoria Canning joins the Department at 20 percent for two years. She is a Professor of Criminology at Lancaster University, researching border harms and zemiology, tor

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/victoria-canning-our-new-visiting-professor - 2026-06-25

Professor Timur Dadabaev is conducting a 12-month research stay at the Sociology of Law Department. The visiting professorship marks the launch of a long-term effort to establish a Transregional Decolonial Studies Hub at Lund University. Timur Dadabaev is a Professor of International Relations, the founding Director of the Special Program for Japanese and Eurasian Studies at the University of Tsuk

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/timur-dadabaev-joins-department-visiting-professor - 2026-06-25

The EU has awarded Rustamjon Urinboyev €4.73 million to lead a new doctoral network on law, religion, and governance in post-imperial Muslim-majority societies. Eleven European universities will recruit 15 PhD students for the programme. Four of these will be based at the Sociology of Law Department. The grant will fund the new doctoral network MINARET. The researchers will study how constitutiona

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/major-eu-grant-lund-led-phd-programme-islamic-legal-cultures - 2026-06-25

Timur Dadabaev has studied how Central Asian states exercise agency in ways that international relations studies often misconstrue, most notably through silent communication. In a new book, the Sociology of Law Department's Guest Professor Timur Dadabaev, and the University of Tokyo’s specially appointed professor Shigeto Sonoda, explore how silence, ambiguity, omission, and non-verbal practices f

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-book-explores-silence-strategy-international-relations - 2026-06-25

On Friday, May 22, Carlo Nicoli Aldini defended his doctoral thesis in sociology of law. The examining committee unanimously passed the dissertation. "It is an unusually good read," said the external reviewer, Professor Siri Gloppen of the University of Bergen, about Nicoli Aldini’s dissertation Legal and Lethal: Lawfare and Legal Mobilization in the Conflict over the Steel Plant of Taranto, Italy

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sucessful-thesis-defence-gives-lund-its-64th-doctor-sociology-law - 2026-06-25

This research focuses on the assessment process in queer asylum claims in Greece. The defence took place at the Faculty of Social Science's campus in Lund on Monday, May 25. Sophia Zisakou has studied what makes queerness credible or incredible in the Greek asylum system. To be granted asylum, queer asylum seekers must prove to migration authorities that they are queer or risk deportation. Zisakou

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sophia-zisakou-defends-her-thesis-become-doctor-sociology-law - 2026-06-25

A new book examines emerging patterns of migration from Central Asia to underrepresented destinations worldwide and challenges the established wisdom on migration to and from the region. The conventional understanding of Central Asian migration focuses on labour mobility toward Russia. The anthology "Bridges Across Borders: Dynamics of Central Eurasian Migration to Australia, Japan, and Northern E

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/central-eurasian-migration-beyond-traditional-routes - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Exploring issues of methodology from a doctrinal as well as from an interdisciplinary perspective this new book by Reza Banakar also maps the development of law and socio-legal research from industrialisation to globalisation and searches for forms of regulation which can effectively meet the challenges of contemporar

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-book-methodological-reflections-law-and-regulation-late-modernity - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The past 12 years they have been educating educationalists worldwide on children's rights through the training programme "Child Rights, Classroom and School Management", sponsored by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA). Per Wickenberg, director of studies at the Sociology of Law Department, Lund Univer

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/teachers-should-respect-students-listen-them - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Professor Reza Banakar’s book Normativity in Legal Sociology. Methodological Reflections on Law and Regulation in Late Modernity has recently been released. It studies of the role of normativity in socio-legal research also looking at the challenges posed to modern law by the socio-cultural implications of globalisati

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/banakars-new-book-normativity-socio-legal-research - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The self-regulation of rickshaw drivers in Bogota, Colombia was the topic of the talk when Ana Maria Vargas Falla presented a chapter of her coming dissertation at the annual meeting of The Law & Society Association in Seattle, May 28-31, 2015. The conference theme was Law’s Promise and Law’s Pathos in the Global Nort

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/vargas-falla-talked-about-coming-theses-seattle - 2026-06-25