Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten antar Rustamjon Urinboyev som docent i rättssociologi. Lärarförslagsnämnden vid Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten förslog i slutet på maj att fakultetsstyrelsen antar Rustamjon Urinboyevs ansökan om att bli antagen som docent. Fakultetsstyrelsen höll med.Bakgrunden till beslutet är att Rustamjon Urinboyev sedan sin doktorsdisputation 2013 inbringat cirka 20 miljoner

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/artikel/ny-docent-vid-rattssociologiska-institutionen - 2025-08-23

I mitten av juli deltog Amin Parsa, postdoktor vid Rättssociologiska institutionen, i “Expert Workshop on Race, Borders, and Digital Technologies”. Han presenterade delar av sin forskning om bruk och utveckling av digitala teknologier för mobilitetsövervakning för europeisk gränskontroll. Han kommenterade även på sätt som avancerade digitala teknologier för gränskontroll producerar, reproducerar o

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Professorn talade på Rule of Law Forum vid 2020 World Artificial Intelligence Conference. Den 10 juli, medan professor emeritus i rättssociologi Håkan Hydén talade in i en kamera från sitt hem i Lund, projicerade arrangören China Justice Big Data Institute honom på en massiv skärm någonstans i Shanghai. Presentationen fokuserade på hur digital teknologi i allmänhet, och artificiell intelligens i s

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– Då kommer det att bli fler döda i trafiken, helt enkelt, säger Rättssociologiska institutionens forskare Måns Svensson till Sveriges Radio. Sedan mars testar polisen bara förare som misstänks för rattonykterhet, rapporterar Ekot i Sveriges radio. Allmänna nykterhetskontroller utgår till följd av coronavirusets smittorisk. Måns Svensson, docent i rättssociologi, har bland annat forskat om bestraf

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Natten till den 28 augusti nåddes vi av det tråkiga beskedet att professorn i rättssociologi Reza Banakar har gått bort. Reza disputerade i Lund 1994 och återvände efter anställningar i England som professor i rättssociologi 2013. Reza var ämnesansvarig och ansvarig för forskarutbildningen. Reza ägnade sin vetenskapliga gärning åt centrala frågor inom rättssociologi och han författade flera böcker

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I våras kom en kritisk studie av egendomskontroll utförd av Rättssociologiska institutionens postdokotor Jannice Käll. Artikeln publicerades i Harvard International Law Journal. I "The Materiality of Data as Property" undersöker Jannice Käll hur personuppgifter i modern kultur uppfattas som objekt skilda från människor - liknande hur vissa anser att kroppen och själen är åtskilda - och som en resu

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/artikel/likheter-mellan-oljeutvinning-och-insamling-av-personuppgifter - 2025-08-23

Biträdande lektor Isabel Schoultz och forskningsassistent Heraclitos Muhire vid Rättssociologiska institutionen leder ett forskningsprojekt de hoppas kan leda till förändrad policy och praktik på arbetsmarknaden och förbättrade villkor för migrantarbetare. Samhällsvetenskapliga forskare från Danmark, Finland, Norge och Sverige undersöker skillnader mellan ländernas hantering av utländsk arbetskraf

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Sveriges radio P4 Blekinge rapporterar att flera personer med utländsk bakgrund hotats efter att de medverkat i lokala medier. I inslaget hörs Rättssociologiska institutionens doktorand Oscar Björkenfeldt, som forskar om hur hot och hat mot journalister påverkar det offentliga samtalet och demokratin.– Det finns en kollektiv avsikt att tysta vissa frågor från det offentliga samtalet, samt att unde

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Statens utredning om stärkt rätt till skadestånd för brottsoffer ser över vissa regler kring brottsoffers rätt till skadestånd. Rättssociologen Karl Dahlstrand disputerade på brottsofferersättning och besökte nyligen utredningens expertkommitté. Karl Dahlstrands forskning om kränkningsersättning till brottsoffer tangerar regeringens utredning om stärkt rätt till skadestånd för brottsoffer. Uppdrag

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A Dutch pilot, a safety manager from Australia, an average-adjuster from Denmark and twelve others who work with safety in high-risk industries came together a week before Christmas in Lund to hone their critical thinking skills. They are all studying the distance-learning MSc in Human Factors and System Safety, and it was now time to meet in real life. Participants on the distance-learning progra

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/scattered-risk-students-gather-lund - 2025-08-23

Lund University’s MOOCs have now started. First to launch was the Faculty of Law course in European Business Law, closely followed by Greening the Economy from the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), and later in the spring the Faculty of Medicine’s course in sexual health will take place. The number of people registered for the courses has exceeded expectations

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/mooc-launch-celebrated-fizz-and-folk-dance - 2025-08-23

… CEO of Lund University’s student consulting company Lunicore, which increased its turnover by 45 per cent last year. As a result, it is now probably the largest student-run consulting company in Scandinavia. Why should students work as consultants during their studies? “Because they get the chance to put their theoretical knowledge into practice while they’re still studying, to see their skills

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/meet-emil-erikssonabout-students-consultants - 2025-08-23

The students, wider society and the path to academic success were important points in Torbjörn von Schantz’s inauguration speech on the University’s foundation day, 28 January. After the usual pomp and ceremony, and with the vice-chancellor’s chain hanging splendidly round his neck, he expressed his thanks for the appointment, which he sees as a great honour. Vice-chancellor Torbjörn von Schantz .

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-vice-chancellor-safeguard-student-influence - 2025-08-23

Economist and researcher Andreas Bergh is closely involved in public debate. Few things make him really angry. One of them is stupidity. Like when the city of Malmö fails to create simple entry-level jobs because of unreasonable demands on people who want to start mobile food trucks. “That is how the sluggish Swedish labour market works. If we dared to shake up the regulations we would gain a lot

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/advocating-capitalist-welfare-state - 2025-08-23

From Jordan to Lund: Sahar Al-Rabadi and Marwa Al-Khalidi have got off to a good start as PhD students in architecture at LU. They are the result of a revitalised agreement with Yarmouk University. PhD students in architecture Sahar Al-Rabadi and Marwa Al-Khalidi outside LUX, a building they find architecturally interesting. “I love following rules and here there are rules everywhere. Everything i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/jordanian-doctoral-students-appreciate-swedish-order - 2025-08-23

David Gisselsson is a researcher on a roll. In the autumn, he was awarded Lund’s ‘local Fernström Prize’, which goes to a promising young researcher in medicine, and he has recently had an article published in one of the most prestigious journals in the field, Nature Communications. David Gisselsson with two of his research tools – the microscope and the computer. David Gisselsson’s research is ab

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Doctoral students living on relatively low external scholarships should get terms of employment that are more equal to those on doctoral studentships. This is the hope of the University’s Education Board, which has approved the faculties topping up the income of doctoral students on scholarships. However, the Faculty of Law and the University’s employment lawyers have registered reservations again

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/better-conditions-horizon-scholarship-holders - 2025-08-23

Meet Jonas Hafström, a lawyer with a background in the diplomatic service, including as Swedish ambassador to the USA. For the past year he has led government trade delegations around the world and helped to coach Swedish embassy staff in countries with strong economic growth. Jonas Hafström. Foto: Pawel Flato Welcome to Lund University as the new chair of the University Board. “Thank you.” You ha

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Enlightenment philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft believed that living in hierarchies destroyed and corrupted people deep down in their souls. “For her, inequality was the greatest threat to democracy and liberty. It is still dynamite today, as the gulf between rich and poor widens and the world is divided into lords and servants”, says Professor of Human Rights Studies Lena Halldenius. She has just p

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/reinterpreting-feminist-pioneer - 2025-08-23

Peter Schurtenberger wants to create specially designed nanoparticles that can instruct themselves. He is a high-level researcher and chemistry professor recruited from Switzerland, and is fascinated by the processes behind nature’s own ability to organise its smallest components. His aim is to mimic them. Peter Schurtenberger wants to create nanoparticles that could build complex structures in ac

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/mimicking-nature-nanoscale - 2025-08-23