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När det gäller kriminalvärldens ouppklarade brott används ofta ny DNA-teknik för att lösa gamla fall. Så är det också med blodgåtornas ”cold cases”, där man genom att jämföra olika patientprover med varandra ser proteinmönster och DNA-ledtrådar som till slut kan resultera i nya blodgrupper. Nyligen löstes ett nästan trettioårigt blodmysterium, genom ett samarbete mellan Lunds universitet, Region S

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/ett-blodigt-cold-case-far-en-internationell-losning - 2025-12-13

Lunds universitet öppnar helt nya kurser inför hösten genom satsningen Studiechansen. Två tematerminer har skapats inom hållbarhet och global hälsa. Studiechansen syftar till att fler ska få möjlighet att studera och bygga kompetens inför framtiden. Regeringen har under våren satsat extra utbildningspengar för att lindra effekterna av coronapandemin. Lunds universitet har fått drygt 50 miljoner kr

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitet-lanserar-studiechansen - 2025-12-13

Forskare i Lund har upptäckt en ny metod för att behandla alla humana herpesvirus. Den nya bredspektrum-metoden riktar sig mot fysikaliska egenskaper i virusets arvsmassa i stället för som i tidigare behandlingsmetoder, mot virala proteiner. Behandlingen består av nya molekyler som penetrerar virusets proteinhölje och hindrar generna från att lämna viruset för att infektera cellen. Det unika med

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/antiviral-metod-mot-herpes-banar-vag-bekampning-av-obotliga-virusinfektioner - 2025-12-13

Alzheimers sjukdom är svårdiagnosticerad vilket kan försvåra möjligheten att ge bästa möjliga behandling och vård. I en internationell studie som nu publiceras i den ansedda tidskriften JAMA beskriver forskare ett nytt blodprov som upptäcker Alzheimers sjukdom redan innan de första symtomen utvecklats och har samma tillförlitlighet som dyra, komplicerade och mer svårtillgängliga metoder. Forskarna

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/nytt-blodprov-upptacker-alzheimers-sjukdom-lika-exakt-som-dyra-och-komplicerade-metoder - 2025-12-13

Patrik Olsson and Rustam Urinboyev visited Tashkent in Uzbekistan in October to give policy advise on crime prevention and anti-corruption issues and were interviewed by Uzbek television. Two of our researchers in Sociology of Law, Senior Lecturer Patrik Olsson and Senior Research Fellow Rustam Urinboyev, are currently invited to give policy advise to the Academy of General Prosecutor’s Office of

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/uzbek-tv-reports-our-researchers-crime-prevention-and-anti-corruption-work-country - 2025-12-13

Staffan Michelson defended his doctoral thesis in Sociology of Law ”Empowerment and Private Law. Civil Impetus for Sustainable Development” Friday 30th November at one o'clock in the room Pufendorfsalen at the Faculty of Law, in Lund. The dissertation is the result of a study of private law viewed as a source of power for individuals to enhance values they favour. As an appropriate example of such

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/staffan-michelson-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-12-13

ONGOING RESEARCH: Amin Parsa’s research on migration and the use of new technology in tracing mobility focuses on how the use of such technology can potentially reshape our laws. – I want to show how our use of new technology is shaping the way that we do law, says Amin Parsa.– Generally my research is about the relationship between law and technology. Artificial intelligence and decision making t

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-technology-shapes-our-understanding-what-legal - 2025-12-13

Ghana’s “overall best student 2018” is studying Sociology of Law in Lund. Labiks’s story shows how far hard work and perseverance can get you. Ghana’s Inter Tertiary Excellence Award 2018 for Overall Best Student 4th Year in the academia category went to Thomas Duke Labik Amanquandor, who is studying the second semester of the Sociology of Law Master’s programme here in Lund. The Inter Tertiary Ex

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/student-our-masters-programme-earns-prestigious-award-after-years-struggle-high-school-exam - 2025-12-13

Martin Joormann defended his doctoral thesis in Sociology of Law ”Legitimized Refugees: A Critical Investigation of Legitimacy Claims within the Precedents of Swedish Asylum Law” today Friday 3rd May at 10 o'clock in Kulturen's Auditorium, Tegnérsplatsen in Lund. The external reviewer was Professor Åsa Wettergren, Göteborg University.Abstract på engelskaThis study focuses on asylum cases decided a

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/martin-joormann-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-12-13

Everything is in the same place but the address has changed. The departments visiting address is now Allhelgona Kyrkogata 18 C. To make it easier for emergency services to find the right building in the Paradis area in Lund, several university buildings changed addresses on 1 July.  The Sociology of Law Department's address was changed from  Allhelgona Kyrkogata 14.to Allhelgona Kyrkogata 18 C.The

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociology-law-department-gets-new-address - 2025-12-13

Amin Parsa has written the chapter ”Military Uniform and Lethal Targeting in International Law on Armed Conflict” in the newly published book Uniform: Clothing and Discipline in the Modern World. In the chapter, Amin Parsa, postdoctoral researcher at The Sociology of Law Department, investigates the production of human target in laws of armed conflict as a derivative of the different visual functi

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/amin-parsa-legal-materiality-laws-armed-conflict - 2025-12-13

Marie Leth-Espensen has co-authored an article on the recent gastronomic trend known as “New Carnivorism.” Marie Leth-Espensen, doctoral student at the Sociology of Law Department, has together with Mathias Elrød Madsen studied this relatively new food media trend. In an article in the journal Society & Animals, they discuss how examples such as the Danish TV show “Kill Your Favorite Dish” (Dræb d

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-research-ideology-meat-eating - 2025-12-13

Renowned criminologist Dr Molly Dragiewicz, Associate Professor at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, visited Lund University for a seminar with the criminology program students. The seminar, “Digital media and domestic violence: Emerging international research”, on Tuesday 10th April, covered the role of digital technology in domestic abu

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/seminar-domestic-abuse-and-how-it-facilitated-digital-technology - 2025-12-13

The Sociology of Law Department's Professor Emeritus, Karsten Åström, has received an honorary doctorate at the Faculty of Philosophy at Linköping University. For many years, Karsten Åström has been a Guest Professor at Linköping University, where he has established Welfare Law as a subject at the Faculty of Philosophy. The Faculty Board motivates awarding Åström with the honorary degree by statin

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/karsten-astrom-has-been-awarded-honorary-doctorate-linkoping-university - 2025-12-13

Growing amounts of hateful messages sent to journalists are threatening to undermine central democratic concepts. The extent of problem is being investigated at the Sociology of Law Department at Lund University. In the last ten years, more journalists have received hateful and threatening messages online. The trend has led to self-censorship and declining mental health among media professionals.

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-research-project-studies-effects-hateful-messages-journalism - 2025-12-13

On Wednesday 29 January, the Sociology of Law Department hosted The Panorama Day, an annual relay seminar about ongoing research. For students, it was an opportunity to get an overview of the production of science at their current department, and deepen their understanding of the subject. Roughly 120 students gathered at Lux auditorium to hear 16 presentations about research projects with titles l

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/short-and-sweet-when-students-were-introduced-departments-research - 2025-12-13

In the end of February, Patrik Olsson, associate professor at Lund University visited Uzbekistan to discuss one of the main academic problems in the area. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the General Prosecutor’s Office (GPO) of the Republic of Uzbekistan were among the main organizers behind the conference ”Higher Education – a Sphere without Corru

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociologist-law-anticorruption-assignment-central-asia - 2025-12-13

Hildur Fjóla Antonsdóttir at the Sociology of Law Department defended her doctoral thesis “Decentring Criminal Law: Understandings of Justice by Victim-Survivors of Sexual Violence and its Implications for Different Justice Strategies” on Friday, 24 April. The thesis defence was a mostly digital occasion, with Hildur Fjóla Antonsdóttir streaming from Iceland, and the discussant, Professor Clare Mc

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/hildur-fjola-antonsdottir-successfully-defends-her-doctoral-thesis - 2025-12-13

Three researchers within the Social Science Faculty at Lund University have compiled an anthology challenging the notion of the refugee crisis of 2015. The book also investigates how Germany, Sweden, and Denmark use bureaucracy to control, discipline, and shape asylum seekers’ lives. In 2015, the number of asylum seekers arriving in the EU doubled from the previous year, totalling over 1.3 million

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/how-northern-european-welfare-states-exercise-bureaucratic-violence-asylum-seekers - 2025-12-13

The Minister for Gender Equality, Åsa Lindhagen, has appointed Lena Svenaeus, researcher at the Sociology of Law Department, for an expert role in a commission for gender-equal lifetime earnings. The commission is working on proposals that may contribute to increased economic equality between women and men in the long term, a gender-equal distribution of public support measures, as well as gender-

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/lena-svenaeus-selected-governmental-expert-committee - 2025-12-13