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The Faculty Office, ”Kansli S”, is currently preparing for a reorganisation at the turn of the year. The aim is to create a clearer, more efficient and better-coordinated organisation that meets the needs of the organisation and demands of the future more effectively. The Faculty Office has had an increasingly complex and growing workload for a long time. To meet this challenge and improve the wor
Due to a vacancy in the Nominating Committee a by-election is now being held. You have until 26 November to cast your vote. The task of the faculty's Nominating Committee is to prepare nominations and to establish suggestions of candidates for the positions of dean and deputy dean as well as for the Faculty Board and the University Electoral College. As Magnus Jirström is leaving his position in t
https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/vote-election-nominating-committee - 2025-11-19
The Department of Sociology, which includes the divisions of Gender Studies, Social Anthropology and Sociology, has elected a new head. Sandra Jönsson assumed the role on 15 November. We asked Sandra a few questions to introduce herself. Can you tell us a little about your background?I earned my PhD in work and organisational psychology at Lund University in 2005. After that, I spent many rewardin
https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/meet-new-head-department-sociologiy - 2025-11-19
Several Faculty buildings in the Paradis area in Lund will be given new street addresses. This is due to police and ambulance staff having difficulties finding the exact location when responding to alarms. The new addresses are put into effect on 1 July 2019. Faculty units with new street addresses from 1 JulySchool of Social Work (the new building Gamla köket) – Allhelgona kyrkogata 8 and Norra v
https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-street-addresses-paradis-area - 2025-11-19
The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanity and Society (WASP-HS) och SciLifeLab, Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS), has recently granted funds of 3 967 000 SEK to the project "Explainable and Just AI in Data-Driven Disease Surveillance".Atiye Sadat Hashemi and Yana Litins'ka are leading the project which constitutes an interdisciplinary coll
https://www.law.lu.se/article/yana-litinska-awarded-funding-interdisciplinary-project - 2025-11-19
The final of the European Law Moot Court Competition (ELMC), one of the most prestigious moot court competitions in the world (around 80 universities participating), was held at the Court of Justice of the EU in Luxembourg last week. Two teams of Lund University were competing in this truly historical moment (it was indeed the first time ever that two teams of the same University were competing ag
https://www.law.lu.se/article/great-success-moot-court-competition - 2025-11-19
The Foundation has now decided to award grants for the spring semester to applicants who are actively engaged in research at the Faculty. We are pleased to announce that the Rune and Lena Lavin Foundation for Legal Research at the Faculty of Law, Lund University, has decided at its spring meeting to award a total of SEK 169 200 to nine applicants.Information regarding the autumn 2025 call for appl
https://www.law.lu.se/article/award-rune-and-lena-lavin-foundation-legal-research - 2025-11-19
Katarina Olsson, Professor Emerita of Civil Law at the Faculty of Law, has been awarded the Medal for Significant Deeds for her many and varied contributions to Sweden's foundations. Nine medals were awarded during the Royal Patriotic Society's annual ceremony on 21 May at the Royal Swedish House of Knights. HRH Prince Daniel presented the medals. Katarina Olsson's contributions to the Swedish Fou
https://www.law.lu.se/article/katarina-olsson-has-been-awarded-medal-significant-deeds-0 - 2025-11-19
The Faculty's Research Day took place on 22 May to celebrate the Faculty's honorary doctors, the Jubilee Doctor and the newly awarded doctors. The day was opened by Dean Henrik Wenander. After the introduction, the Faculty's honorary doctors Professor Jeremias Adams-Prassl, Professor at the University of Oxford, and Professor Marta Pertegás Sender, Professor at the University of Maastricht was pr
https://www.law.lu.se/article/facultys-research-day-0 - 2025-11-19
Alezini Loxa has published Sustainability and EU Migration Law: Tracing the History of a Contemporary Concept on Cambridge University Press. The book is published Open Access with support from the LU book fund.Access the bookAlezini Ioxa's profile page in Research Portal
https://www.law.lu.se/article/alezini-loxa-publishes-sustainability-and-eu-migration-law - 2025-11-19
The Faculty of Law is releasing a new podcast about crime and punishment: ‘Kriminalsamtal - a slightly different podcast about crime and punishment’. The podcast is aimed at anyone who wants to know more about the criminal justice system and the thoughts and ideas behind criminal law. At a time when criminal policy is very loud and dominant in the public debate, there is reason to take a step back
https://www.law.lu.se/article/kriminalsamtal-new-podcast-crime-and-punishment - 2025-11-19
The search is on for 25 researchers from around the world in Lund University’s largest ever international recruitment drive. The main focus will be on AI research and other areas in which the University has a strategic focus. “In an uncertain world where free research and education are under intense pressure, Lund University is making its largest ever investment in international recruitment. The a
https://www.law.lu.se/article/lund-university-launches-largest-ever-global-recruitment-drive-researchers - 2025-11-19
Privacy International, a UK-based legal entity and international human rights organisation with a high profile in privacy rights issues, has appointed Professor Martin Scheinin as a member of its Board of Trustees. Professor Scheinin will take up his post on 1 May 2025 and will hold it for three years. He emphasises the importance of his research covering issues related to the right to privacy, in
https://www.law.lu.se/article/visiting-professor-martin-scheinin-elected-board-member-privacy-international - 2025-11-19
On 13 June, the World Maritime University (WMU) and the Faculty of Law at Lund University signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen academic and research collaboration in maritime law and policy, safety, oceans affairs, and marine environment protection. Signed by WMU President, Professor Maximo Q. Mejia, Jr. and Professor Henrik Wenander, Dean of the Faculty of Law at Lund Universi
https://www.law.lu.se/article/lund-university-and-world-maritime-university-signed-memorandum-understanding - 2025-11-19
Matilda Hernqvist, who graduated from the law programme in Lund in the spring semester of 2025, has been awarded the Swedish Copyright Association's SFU Prize. The SFU Prize in copyright and related rights is awarded every year. The prize money is SEK 25,000 and was awarded on 9 June at the association's spring closing ceremony. Matilda's thesis supervisor was Ulrika Wennersten. Title of the essay
https://www.law.lu.se/article/student-lund-wins-prize-her-essay-swedish-copyright-association - 2025-11-19
On 5 May 2025, a mock trial was held at the Faculty of Law in Lund, in a hypothetical prosecution of Stig Engström for the murder of Olof Palme. On the evening of 28 February 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot dead in central Stockholm as he was returning home from the cinema with his wife Lisbeth Palme. The killer ran into a dark alley and vanished.Thirty-four years later, in June 2
https://www.law.lu.se/article/mock-trial-against-stig-engstrom-murder-olof-palme - 2025-11-19
The board of the Einar Hansen Research Foundation has decided to appoint Professor Martin Sunnqvist as the recipient of the Einar Hansen Research Prize 2025. The board's motivation for the recipient of the Einar Hansen Research Prize 2025: "Sunnqvist is professor of legal history at the Faculty of Law at Lund University. He defended his thesis in 2014 on Constitutional Critical Judging. The Change
https://www.law.lu.se/article/recipient-einar-hansen-research-prize-2025 - 2025-11-19
The Judges Proposals Board has appointed Torvald Larsson, LL.D. and senior lecturer in public law, as a special member in cases concerning legality review at the Administrative Court in Malmö. The appointment is for the period from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2028. Legality review is a form of appeal against municipal decisions regulated in Chapter 13 of the Local Government Act (2017:725). In a
https://www.law.lu.se/article/torvald-larsson-appointed-special-member-administrative-court-malmo - 2025-11-19
Petra Holmberg, postdoc in medical law at the Faculty of Law, won the Research Grand Prix competition in Helsingborg on 7 October. In front of an audience of over 500 secondary school students, she presented her research on the risks of 80 per cent of Gen Z using chatbots to manage stress or anxiety. “It’s not surprising, AI feels simple and safe. But my research shows that it can be downright dan
https://www.law.lu.se/article/petra-holmberg-wins-forskar-grand-prix-competition - 2025-11-19
Professor Marko Milanovic is appointed as Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Chair in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from September 2025. The Faculty of Law is honoured and pleased to announce that Professor Mark Milanovic, University of Reading, has been appointed as Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Chair in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from September 2025 until August 2027, and affiliated to the Faculty
https://www.law.lu.se/article/professor-marko-milanovic-appointed-raoul-wallenberg-visiting-chair - 2025-11-19
