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LL.M. Max Bodin, who graduated from the law program at Lund University in the spring term of 2025, has been awarded the YAS (Young Arbitrators Sweden) prize for the best thesis in arbitration law in Sweden. The title of the thesis is: The Jurisdiction of Arbitral Tribunals to Examine Set-Off Claims in International Arbitration. The prize amount is SEK 15,000 and was presented during a ceremony in

https://www.law.lu.se/article/lund-university-student-max-bodin-receives-award-his-thesis-arbitration-law - 2026-06-11

Mariya Senyk has been awarded funding for the project “From the Court of Justice to the General Court: Can legitimacy be preserved?”. The project aims to analyse the General Court’s judgments during the first four years after part of the responsibility for preliminary rulings was transferred from the Court of Justice to the General Court. The focus is on cases concerning value-added tax and excise

https://www.law.lu.se/article/torsten-soderberg-foundation-awards-grant-eu-law-project - 2026-06-11

Positive news that the Rune and Lena Lavin Foundation for Legal Research at the Faculty of Law in Lund, at its autumn meeting, has decided to award SEK 176,500 to a total of seven applicants. Information about the spring 2026 call for applications will be published in March 2026.For the mandate period 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2028, the board consists of the following members:Associate Senior

https://www.law.lu.se/article/award-rune-and-lena-lavin-foundation-legal-research-0 - 2026-06-11

The fundraising campaign for establishing the world’s first Museum of International Law at the Faculty of Law has reached a major milestone. Thanks to a significant donation of SEK 143,000 from Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet i Lund (the Royal Society of the Humanities in Lund), as well as generous contributions from Mannheimer Swartling, Engström & Co., and the Human Rights Profile Area

https://www.law.lu.se/article/fundraising-milestone-reached-worlds-first-museum-international-law - 2026-06-11

The European Commission has, thankfully, approved funding of approximately 10 million SEK (892,000 EUR) for the research project FAMIMOVE (3.0). The project builds on the experiences of previous initiatives and focuses on examining the international family law regulations that become relevant when families move within the EU or to the EU from other countries, with a particular emphasis on the vuln

https://www.law.lu.se/article/research-grant-eu-project-famimove-30 - 2026-06-11

Dalila Osmanovic and Filippa Dyrefors share the first prize for their essays on the theme of competition and public procurement in the Swedish Competition Authority’s essay contest. Title of Filippa Dyrefors’ essay: The Legality of Self-Preferencing under Article 102 TFEU.Jury’s motivation: “The author addresses a subject that is marked by legal and academic uncertainty in an analytical manner. Th

https://www.law.lu.se/article/winners-swedish-competition-authoritys-essay-contest - 2026-06-11

On December 4, the Vice-Chancellor has decided to appoint Patrik Lindskoug as a Professor in Private Law at the Faculty of Law. Patrik Lindskoug's research focuses on national and international private law, with a particular emphasis on property rights and insolvency law, primarily from a Nordic perspective, but he also has a general interest in private international law and comparative law. Patri

https://www.law.lu.se/article/patrik-lindskoug-new-professor-private-law - 2026-06-11

Benjamin Petersson is one of the winners of the Swedish Parliament’s 2025 essay competition for the thesis: "Freedom in Obedience – On the Scope and Limits of Government Control over Public Authorities". The essays were evaluated by a prize committee that included the Speaker and the Deputy Speakers, and the winners were then appointed by the Secretary-General of the Parliament.From the prize comm

https://www.law.lu.se/article/winner-swedish-parliaments-essay-competition-2025 - 2026-06-11

Erik Grimhusen has been awarded a scholarship of SEK 20,000 from the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise for the best thesis on taxation in 2025. For the same thesis, Erik also received a scholarship of SEK 15,000 from the Institute for Tax and Legal Certainty. The title of the thesis is “Targeted Interest Deduction Limitations – The Proposal for New Rules in SOU 2024:37 in Light of X BV”. Accordi

https://www.law.lu.se/article/scholarship-recipient-twice-thesis-tax-law - 2026-06-11

The Vice-Chancellor has decided to appoint Katia Cejie as Visiting Professor at 20% for two years, 2026–2027. The appointment is part of Lund University’s special initiative to recruit visiting professors of underrepresented gender, aimed at providing role models for staff and students by participating in the current research environment, teaching at various levels, and contributing to the faculty

https://www.law.lu.se/article/new-visiting-professor-part-universitys-special-initiative-underrepresented-gender - 2026-06-11

Researchers at the Faculty of Law published two articles on The Conversation in 2025, reaching 52,000 readers. Martin Sunnqvist’s article on Denmark’s new coat of arms was particularly well-received with nearly 30,000 reads. Lund University had a record year on The Conversation in 2025. The university’s researchers published 76 articles that together reached 1.1 million reads. In total, all of the

https://www.law.lu.se/article/denmarks-coat-arms-and-cognitive-warfare-52000-readers-reached-conversation - 2026-06-11

Professor Mia Korpiola and justice of the Supreme Court Stefan Reimer have been awarded honorary doctorates by the Faculty. Mia KorpiolaMia Korpiola is a professor of legal history at the Faculty of Law, University of Turku (Finland) since 2014. She is a legal historian with an exceptionally broad range of expertise and has devoted herself to fields that have not previously been highlighted in res

https://www.law.lu.se/article/honorary-doctorates-2026 - 2026-06-11

The Academic Appointments Board decided on 30 January 2026 to appoint Mariya Senyk as Associate Professor of Fiscal Law. Mariya Senyk holds a doctoral degree in Business Law from Lund University (2018). Her doctoral thesis examines the principles governing the allocation of value added tax (VAT) in cross-border situations, analysed within the legal frameworks of the WTO, the OECD and the EU.From 2

https://www.law.lu.se/article/new-associate-professor-fiscal-law - 2026-06-11

Postdoctoral researcher Laurianne Allezard has signed a publication contract with Edward Elgar Publishing for the book The Anatomy of Identity in Constitutional Law: A New Analytical Concept for Europe and Beyond? The book is scheduled to be published in 2027.

https://www.law.lu.se/article/laurianne-allezard-signs-publication-contract-edward-elgar - 2026-06-11

There has been a record-breaking number of applicants for Lund University’s international recruitment drive. The original total of 25 advertised positions has been increased to 45 – researchers from some of the world’s leading universities who are now heading to Lund. As part of Lund University’s global excellence initiative, the Faculty of Law has hired an assistant professor and three visiting p

https://www.law.lu.se/article/unprecedented-interest-international-recruitment-faculty-law-welcomes-four-leading-researchers - 2026-06-11

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. On Thursday 26 May professor and Honorary Doctor Jeff Hearn will hold an open lecture i R240 at 10.00-11.30. What to do about men, and the study of men and masculinities, and why bother? Can there be a sociology, a social science, of men and masculinities? In this lecture Jeff Hearn provides a brief overview of the

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/jeff-hearn-26-may-men-world-global-transnational-gexual - 2026-06-11

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Several researchers from the Department of Gender studies are involved in the upcoming International Conference on Migration, Irregularisation and Activism: Challenging Contemporary Border Regimes, Racism and Subordination. The conference will take place in Malmö 15-16 June 2016. Assistant professor Maja Sager is on

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/international-conference-malmo-15-16-june - 2026-06-11

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Our partner university in Italy announces six scholarships for a joint Italian-French PhD, three of which are open only for students who earned a master's degree in France Six PhD scholarships (duration: 3 years) in memory of Valeria Solesin, the Italian PhD student at Paris-Sorbonne University killed in the terror

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/six-scholarships-joint-italian-french-phd - 2026-06-11

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. One month ago, our colleague Maria Tonini defended her PhD thesis "The Ambiguities of Recognition. Young Queer Sexualities in Contemporary India". In the recent issue of Lund University Magazine, LUM, she talks about the work behind the thesis. Read the interview in English:Demanding family relationships pressure LG

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/phd-scholar-maria-tonini-lum - 2026-06-11

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. The Department of Gender Studies is now accepting applications for a new PhD position. Detailed information regarding for example admission requirements and assessment criteria is included in the announcement, see link below. Last application date is the 20th of September.In English: PhD position in Gender StudiesIn

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/phd-position-gender-studies - 2026-06-11