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Riksbankens Jubileumsfond has awarded Alezini Loxa just over SEK 4.4 million for the project Revisiting the Normative Foundations of EU Migration Law. Alezini Loxa is one of five researchers selected for this year’s RJ Pro Futura program, carried out in collaboration with the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS).About the projectEU law is structured around a fundamental distinction between
On 27 March, the book launch of Kjell Å. Modéer’s work Ruth’s Book. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Lund, Sweden and the World. A Personal Biography took place. This personal biography of Ruth Bader Ginsburg – RBG – was inspired by her strong ties to Sweden and her periods of residence in Lund during the 1960s. At that time, she worked on a project on Swedish civil procedure, intended for an American readers
https://www.law.lu.se/article/personal-biography-ruth-bader-ginsburg-and-her-time-lund - 2026-06-07
The Faculty Is Recruiting Assistant Professors for Groundbreaking Research in Law. The Faculty of Law is participating in two recruitments of assistant professors (associate senior lecturers) within the framework of the Lund University Programme for Global Excellence. The Faculty is seeking a promising researcher for a position as Assistant Professor of Law specialising in the rule of law and acce
https://www.law.lu.se/article/faculty-participates-lund-university-programme-global-excellence - 2026-06-07
The Swedish Research Council recommends the Faculty of Law as co-lead of a new national research environment. Lund University is proposed to become a key player in the next generation of strategic research areas and to participate in six of eight new national research environments. In total, the Swedish Research Council recommends that 16 research environments be funded – the final decision will b
https://www.law.lu.se/article/faculty-law-takes-part-new-strategic-research-area-sra - 2026-06-07
Pleasing news that the Rune and Lena Lavin Foundation for Legal Research at the Faculty of Law in Lund, at its spring meeting on 16 April, has decided to award SEK 174,052 to a total of eight applicants. The award is part of the foundation’s ongoing support for legal research at the Faculty of Law in Lund.Information about the call for applications for autumn 2026 will be published in October 2026
https://www.law.lu.se/article/award-rune-and-lena-lavin-foundation-legal-research-1 - 2026-06-07
The new edited volume The Reasoning of the Court of Justice of the EU: A Normative Assessment by Alezini Loxa and Luigi Lonardo aims to enrich the study of the Court of Justice of the EU by providing normative—as opposed to descriptive—assessments of its legal reasoning.Taking as a starting point a descriptive account of the Court’s adjudicative practice, which informs a shared conceptual basis fr
https://www.law.lu.se/article/alezini-loxa-publishes-new-book-oup - 2026-06-07
On May 13, the Vice-Chancellor decided to appoint Valentin Jeutner as Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law. Valentin Jeutner’s research focuses on international law and legal theory, with a particular emphasis on the foundational principles and philosophical dimensions of international law, including its intersections with technology, theology, art, and history.Before coming to Lun
https://www.law.lu.se/article/valentin-jeutner-new-professor-international-law - 2026-06-07
The Delegation for Migration Studies (Delmi) presents two new policy briefs on the implementation of the EU Migration and Asylum Pact. The Pact is scheduled to be fully implemented in June 2026, marking the most comprehensive reform of the Common European Asylum System in over a decade. The reform aims to create more efficient and coordinated asylum processes, strengthen controls at the EU’s exter
https://www.law.lu.se/article/new-publications-delmi-and-sieps - 2026-06-07
The Faculty’s Research Day took place on 28 May to honour the Faculty’s honorary doctors, the Faculty’s jubilee doctor and the new PhD graduates. The day was opened by Dean Henrik Wenander. Following the opening address, the faculty’s honorary doctors, Professor Mia Korpiola of the University of Turku and Justice of the Supreme Court Stefan Reimer, were introduced, and the audience was given an in
https://www.law.lu.se/article/facultys-research-day-1 - 2026-06-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How do party cues influence support for a policy proposal? Does it matter whether information on a policy is presented by an in- or outgroup representative? Hanna Bäck has together with Annika Fredén and Emma Renström analyzed this question in a large-scale survey experiment. You can read about their results in the ar
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-party-cues-and-political-attitudes - 2026-06-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 'Politicization and EU Development Policy: The Role of External Perceptions. Case of Ukraine' This article highlights the role of external audiences and their perceptions in analysing the politicization of EU development policy. We analyse how EU foreign assistance is understood in two different intermediary arenas of
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-and-chaban-external-perceptions-and-politicization-eu-development-policy - 2026-06-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Does party system polarization lead to more government crises? Are there institutions that can mitigate such destabilizing effects? Hanna Bäck has together with Henning Bergmann and Thomas Saalfeld analyzed this question in a comparative analysis of 28 European democracies. You can read about their results in the arti
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-polarization-and-government-crises - 2026-06-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. New teaching material by Roger Hildingsson, Ludwig Bengtsson Sonesson och Johannes Stripple Our colleagues Roger Hildingsson, Ludwig Bengtsson Sonesson och Johannes Stripple have recently launched a new teaching material – Beyond the Fossil Society – for high school and upper secondary school. In collaboration with th
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/looking-future-world-beyond-fossil-society - 2026-06-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In his chapter on ‘Normative Power Approach to European Union External Action, Ian Manners demonstrates how the Normative Power Approach (NPA) to the EU sets out a radically different means of studying and changing planetary politics The NPA uses normative theory, theories of explanation and understanding, and practic
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-chapter-ian-manners-normative-power-approach-eu-external-action - 2026-06-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Johannes Lindvall has, together with Kerstin Enflo and Alexandra L. Cermeño, published the article “Railroads and Reform: How Trains Strengthened the Nation State” in the journal British Journal of Political Science. The article shows that the coming of the railroad in the middle of the nineteenth century strengthened
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lindvall-how-railroad-strengthened-nation-state - 2026-06-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How can the long-term be considered in urban planning and experimentation? In a new article – "Planning for 1000 years: The Råängen experiment" published in the journal Urban Planning – Roger Hildingsson, Johannes Stripple and Alice Herrström have together with Peter Pelzer, Utrecht University, studied how the Church
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hildingsson-and-stripple-long-term-futures-urban-planning - 2026-06-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Ole Elgström has together with Natalia Chaban (University of Canterbury, New Zeeland) published a chapter on “Theorizing external perceptions of the EU” in the new textbook/handbook The External Action of the European Union. The book is edited by Sieglinde Gstöhl and Simon Schunz and published by Macmillan Internation
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-external-perceptions-eu-1 - 2026-06-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Malena Rosén Sundström, Ekatherina Zhukova and Ole Elgström have co-authored the article “Spreading a norm-based policy? Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy in international media”. The article has been published in the journal Contemporary Politics. The article investigates how Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) is
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/rosen-sundstrom-zhukova-and-elgstrom-swedens-feminist-foreign-policy - 2026-06-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Jakob Skovgaard has authored the book “The Economisation of Climate Change – How the G20, the OECD and the IMF Address Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Climate Finance”. The book investigates how international economic institutions increasingly address climate issues. The international economic institutions’ involvement ran
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-open-access-book-international-economic-institutions-addressing-climate-change - 2026-06-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. After a long economic crisis, Lebanon is on the brink of ruin. The currency has lost much in value and people's savings have been eaten up. The crisis in the country is also taking place at the political and social level. Despite this, the corrupt elite continues to rule the country, without being punished for their w
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/will-lebanon-survive-crisis - 2026-06-07
