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New article in "Foreign Policy Analysis" by Hanna Bäck, Jan Teorell, Alexander Von Hagen-Jamar and Alejandro Quiroz Flores. In this study, Hanna Bäck and Jan Teorell with colleagues engage in the debate about leadership and foreign policy outcomes by focusing on the tenure of foreign ministers. They ask why some foreign ministers stay longer in office than others. Using a unique data set on over 1

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/war-performance-and-survival-foreign-ministers - 2025-10-27

In a chapter on ‘European Communion and Planetary Organic Crisis’, Ian Manners argues that economic, social, ecological, conflictual, and political crises of the EU are not separate, but part of the same planetary crisis. The most common way of theorising the European Union’s crises is to see them as, at best, a run of ‘bad luck’, or at worst as ‘multiple challenges’. This chapter brings two very

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-chapter-ian-manners-european-union-and-planetary-organic-crisis - 2025-10-27

Annika Björkdahl raises the critical question Where does peace take place? in the chapter Peacebuilding and Spatial Transformation in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies co-authored with Stefanie Kappler  Link to the publication on doi.org Annika Björkdahl's personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bjorkdahl-where-does-peace-take-place - 2025-10-27

”Expanding the Reach of the Special Forces with a Gender-Mixed Deep Development Capability (DDC): Identifying Challenges and Lessons Learned” This policy brief examines the development and implementation of a new gender mixed military capability within the Belgian Special Forces Group, including female soldiers in the operational detachment of the unit for the first time. Wilén examines the develo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-publication-nina-wilen - 2025-10-27

Karin Aggestam and Annika Bergman Rosamond have co-authored the chapter “Gender and Peaceful Change” in the Oxford Handbook on Peaceful Change in International Relations. edited by T.V. Paul et al.  Link to the publication on oxfordhandbooks.com Karin Aggestam’s personal page Annika Bergman Rosamond’s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-bergman-rosamond-gender-and-peaceful-change-international-relations - 2025-10-27

”To Strike Together: Conflict Rituals and the Situational Power of Nonviolence” Isabel Bramsen published a piece on ”To Strike Together: Conflict Rituals and the Situational Power of Nonviolence” in Journal of Resistance Studies. The study theorizes the micro-sociological dynamics of conflict and nonviolence as micro-sociological and discusses how nonviolent resistance can disrupt the rhythm and s

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-situational-power-nonviolence - 2025-10-27

On Monday, 20 June, Nicolás Serrano Cardona successfully defended his dissertation Interlegality, Municipalities and Social Change: A Sociolegal Study of the Controversy around Bullfighting in Bogotá, Colombia. He is the 59th PhD student to complete doctoral studies at the Sociology of Law Department. Serrano Cardona's dissertation aims to better understand the constraints and possibilities of mun

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/nicolas-serrano-cardona-has-received-his-doctorate-degree - 2025-10-27

The research publisher Frontiers has appointed Senior Professor Håkan Hydén as Special Chief Editor for the sociology of law section of Frontiers in Sociology. Hydén became a professor of sociology of law in 1988. His main research interest relates to norms and what motivates people to act. He has also done comparative studies of legal norms, cyber norms, and social norms. He published his most re

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/hakan-hyden-appointed-special-chief-editor-sociological-journal - 2025-10-27

On Friday, September 23, Davor Vuleta ended his nine-year doctoral education with a successful defence of his thesis "Law and Social Exclusion: The functions and dysfunctions of the Swedish legal system in light of overindebtedness among immigrants". Davor Vuleta is one of four Swedish Enforcement Authority (SEA) employees accepted as PhD students at the Sociology of Law Department in 2013. Combin

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/davor-vuleta-accepted-ranks-doctors-sociology-law - 2025-10-27

Since the invasion of Ukraine, Central Asian migrant workers in Russia have seen fewer job opportunities and lower salaries. Among those trying their luck elsewhere, Turkey has become a popular alternative, especially for women. Sociologists of law Rustamjon Urinboyev and Sherzod Eraliev recently published a book comparing the everyday lives of labour migrants in Russia and Turkey. Central Asia -

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/central-asian-migrants-lives-and-challenges-russia-and-turkey - 2025-10-27

At the end of September, Karl Dahlstrand visited Iceland to present at the international conference "Recognising Sexual Violence: Developing Pathways to Survivor-Centred Justice", organised by the University of Iceland. Karl Dahlstrand has studied crime victim compensation for over a decade. At the conference organised by the Institute for Gender, Equality and Difference (RIKK) at the University o

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/karl-dahlstrand-presented-icelandic-conference-recognising-sexual-violence - 2025-10-27

The lecturer at this year's Reza Banakar Memorial Seminar is Susan S. Silbey, Professor in Humanities, Sociology and Anthropology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Professor of Behavioral and Policy Sciences at MIT's business school Sloan School of Management. Professor Silbey's lecture, "Pragmatic Regulation: Governing Inside the House of Science", will be delivered online and ac

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/lecturer-reza-banakar-memorial-seminar-decided - 2025-10-27

Most of the grant goes to Isabel Schoultz's study of the strategies used by the parties in the upcoming Lundin Energy trial. About a quarter of the money is awarded to Rustamjon Urinboyev to write about Central Asian Muslim prisoners in Russian jails. The Riksbank's Jubilee Fund allocates a total of SEK 6 261 500 to the Sociology of Law Department. More than 4.8 million goes to Isabel Schoultz's r

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociology-law-department-receives-over-sek-6-million-riksbanks-jubilee-fund - 2025-10-27

Anna Lundberg receives SEK 145 777 (about EUR 13 250) from the Lund University Sustainability Fund for the project "Legal competence for the right to have rights" (translation from Swedish). The project aims to create a model for providing information and advice on labour, migration and social law and how these areas of law interact and affect each other. The target groups are legal aid organisati

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/anna-lundberg-receives-project-funding-improve-rights-advice - 2025-10-27

In his current research project, Sherzod Eraliev investigates the conditions of life and work for some of the thousands of undocumented Uzbeks operating within the Swedish shadow economy. The governmental agency Statistics Sweden put the number of Uzbek nationals in Sweden at about five thousand. Sherzod Eraliev, a postdoctoral researcher at the Sociology of Law Department, says the actual number

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/life-and-labour-undocumented-uzbeks-sweden-and-finland - 2025-10-27

For the second time this year the Sociology of Law Department at Lund University receives The Swedish Research Council’s grant for an International Post Doc. In June of this year Stefan Larsson received the grant for his research on legal challenges in a digital context. This time Rustamjon Urinboyev’s project on migration and legal culture is awarded the grant, which means funding for three years

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/three-million-migration-research - 2025-10-27

The Sociology of Law Department's annual research day for new students took place on the Lund University campus for the first time since the end of the pandemic restrictions last year. The day introduced several of the department's new researchers and PhD students. Professor Ole Hammerslev joined the Sociology of Law Department on 1 January this year. His research interests include how conflicts a

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/socio-legal-research-panorama-back-campus - 2025-10-27

Umeå University PhD student Ekaterina Zmyvalova visited the Sociology of Law Department in October to present her research on the right of Sámi children of Russia to learn their language at school. The department has a long-standing tradition of research on children's rights and is prominent within the Child Rights Institute, a network gathering researchers within the field at Lund University. Sen

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/research-collaboration-sami-childrens-right-learn-their-language-russian-schools - 2025-10-27

The Wallenberg Foundation's research programme "AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanities and Society" grants Sofia Ranchordas, Professor of Administrative Law at Tilburg Law School, 8,5 million SEK (€ 754 000) for a research project placed at Lund University on vulnerability in the digital society. "This is the first time Lund University receives a visiting professorship through WA

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-visiting-professor-lead-social-science-ai-project - 2025-10-27

A significant contribution to the study of law and social norms has been made by the Sociology of Law Department in Lund with the new book 'Social and Legal Norms. Towards a Socio-Legal Understanding of Normativity'. New Technologies and globalization have amongst other things resulted in an increasingly complex relationship between law and norms. Looking to answer questions like ‘What is the norm

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/exploring-law-and-norms-new-book - 2025-10-27