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The Swedish government has appointed Vilhelm Persson, professor of public law at the faculty, as a member of the board of the Swedish Institute for Human Rights. He succeeds another of the faculty's professors, Titti Mattsson, whose term as a board member expires at the end of the year. The Swedish Institute for Human Rights is an independent government agency tasked with protecting and promoting

https://www.law.lu.se/article/vilhelm-persson-appointed-new-board-member-swedish-institute-human-rights - 2026-01-21

Marie Jacobsson, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law in Lund, has been awarded a Doctor of Science in Maritime Affairs honoris causa in recognition of outstanding services to the international maritime community at the World Maritime University (WMU) in Malmö. Until her retirement in 2023, Marie Jacobsson was an ambassador and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs' Legal Adviser on International

https://www.law.lu.se/article/honorary-doctorate-world-maritime-university - 2026-01-21

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 - 2026-01-21

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 - 2026-01-21

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 - 2026-01-21

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 - 2026-01-21

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 - 2026-01-21

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 - 2026-01-21

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 - 2026-01-21

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 - 2026-01-21

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 - 2026-01-21

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 - 2026-01-21

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 - 2026-01-21

Astronomdagarna is a conference that gathers astronomers from across Sweden. It was held in Lund during October 2-4, 2024, with over 120 people attending.  The national conference Astronomdagarna is held every other year, with different universities taking turns on hosting the conference.  Back in 2022 the Astronomdagarna conference was held in Gothenburg.  Last time the conference was here in Lun

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/astronomdagarna-2024 - 2026-01-21

A new instrument on the four-metre VISTA telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile has recently captured its first starlight. This marks the beginning of a new era in astronomy, as researchers prepare to map the sky in unprecedented detail. The instrument does not take ordinary images of the night sky. Instead, 4MOST – the Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope – collects spectra, that

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/new-eye-universe-opens-chile - 2026-01-21

In a recent paper, Nicholas Borsato, along with collaborators Jens Hoeijmakers, Bibiana Prinoth, Brian Thorsbro, and Rebecca Forsberg, provides insightful research on the complex atmospheric composition of the exoplanet KELT-9b. The team captured the exoplanet's spectra during transit, revealing numerous elements within its atmosphere.This study not only verifies the presence of previously known e

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/terbium-among-heavy-elements-discovered-atmosphere-exoplanet-kelt-9b - 2026-01-21

The European Space Agency Buissness Incubator Center (ESA BIC) hosted a meet-and-greet event at Ideon on April 25th.  Local professionals got to know more about ESA BIC and about a few of the ongoing space projects in Lund. This was well received by the people attending the event, and rumor has it that ESA BIC will arrange more such events in the future. 

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/meet-and-greet-esa-bic - 2026-01-21

Astronomers invited members of the public to look at the spring skies through the teaching telescopes. There are a number of both historical and modern telescopes at Lund Observatory.  Usually these are used for teaching purposes but every now and then the astronomers decide to stay at work late into the evening in order to give members of the public the chance for some stargazing. This spring thr

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/stargazing - 2026-01-21

  There is so much more to space than just rocket science. So said Deborah Lygonis, CEO Friendbase AB and Investor Relations, Innovatum, at a national hybrid lunch meeting titled ”The Future of the Space Industry”, which was jointly organised by ESA BIC and Women In Space Sweden (WISS) on May the fourth. She went on to explain how the space industry loosly divides into ’Upstream’ (including rocket

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/future-space-industry - 2026-01-21

 Several members of the Lund Observatory network gathered in Lundmarkssalen today to listen to Göran Östlins from Stockholm University give a seminar titled: "SELTIC, Swedish engagement in ELT instrumentation".SELTIC is a consortium developing instruments, such as MOSAIC and ANDES, for ESOs ELT - which is currently under construction and scheduled for first light in 2028.This was the first seminar

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/swedish-engagement-elt-instrumentation-development - 2026-01-21