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The Research Panorama Day is an annual relay seminar presenting ongoing research at the Sociology of Law Department for new students. It is an opportunity for students to get an overview of the production of science at their current department and deepen their understanding of the subject. The 2024 iteration of the Research Panorama Day featured presentations of several new research projects. One

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-projects-presented-sociology-law-departments-research-panorama-day - 2025-11-05

When 2023 became 2024, Anna Lundberg took over as Head of The Sociology of Law Department. Here she talks about her first months in the position and future challenges. Former Head of Department Isabel Schoultz leads a time-sensitive research project examining strategies between prosecutors, lawyers, and counsels for the injured party in the trial against Orrön (formerly Lundin Energy, among others

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/anna-lundberg-new-head-department - 2025-11-05

The Bachelor's Programme in Criminology and the Sociology of Law Basic Course Online were among Lund University's most applied-for programmes and courses for the autumn semester of 2024. With 3,273 applications, the Bachelor's programme in Criminology had the most applicants of all the country's criminology programmes and courses for the seventh year running. The programme was the fifth most popul

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/departments-bachelors-programme-and-online-course-among-most-popular-lund-university - 2025-11-05

Cansu Bostan received the Oscar II Stipend, an annual award for the best doctoral thesis at each of Lund University's faculties defended during the previous two years. Bostan defended her thesis, Games of Justice: Ethnographic Inquiries on Space, Subjectivity and Law in Northern Kurdistan, in June 2022. She had spent five years studying ethnographically the changing formations of law within the Tu

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/doctoral-thesis-sociology-law-awarded-facultys-best - 2025-11-05

Lund University recently decided to allocate €4 million to promote international impact. The Faculty of Social Sciences receives €590 000, part of which goes to the Sociology of Law Department. The department receives €44 600 (SEK 520,000) for two internationalising initiatives. A grant of €12 000 goes to organising an international workshop at the end of November on de-colonialism. A further €32

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociology-law-department-receives-half-million-sek-strengthen-international-impact - 2025-11-05

NordForsk, an organisation under the Nordic Council of Ministers that funds cooperative research between researchers in the Nordics, awarded Ida Nafstad the equivalent of €324,000 as part of a larger research grant. Her research group intends to promote democratic engagement participation among marginalised groups in environmental policy-making. Transitional Environmental Justice (EnJUSTICE) is a

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/research-strives-amplify-marginalized-voices-nordic-baltic-green-transition - 2025-11-05

The Sociology of Law Department received four positive answers for funding requests this month. The Crafoord Foundation funds Anna Lundberg's ”Public employees’ mobilization against the Informers Act” project with 500,000 SEK. Information about the research will be available later this year.They also granted Jannice Käll 200,000 SEK for the organisation of Critical Legal Conference 2024: Speculati

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/several-successful-grant-applications-june - 2025-11-05

On Friday, September 13, Oscar Björkenfeldt successfully defended his thesis, "Online Harassment Against Journalists: A Socio-Legal and Working-Life Study of the Challenges and Impacts in Swedish Journalism". By integrating sociology of law and work-life science, Oscar Björkenfeldt developed insights into how online harassment targeting journalists influences journalistic practices.Björkenfeldt us

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/oscar-bjorkenfeldt-completes-doctoral-student-programme - 2025-11-05

The Sociology of Law Department receives 50,000 SEK (€4,300) in faculty mobility funds to invite Sergio Jarillo de la Torre, a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Geography, University of Melbourne. His background is in social anthropology, law, and art history, and he has spent over ten years doing fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, the Marshall  Islands and Mozambique.During his two-week s

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/department-granted-funds-invite-researcher-university-melbourne - 2025-11-05

Ana Maria Vargas Falla was Lund University's only representative at COP29 in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. She has researched public resistance and acceptance of climate legislation and contributed to the "10 new insights in climate science" presented during the climate summit. These are her impressions of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. I was initially very sceptical about having

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/ana-maria-vargas-falla-reflects-cop29 - 2025-11-05

Michael Molavi and Isabel Schoultz have received a major research grant from the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Programme. Together with newly hired post-doctoral researcher, Elin Jönsson, they will study how ongoing de-democratisation processes affect protest cultures and how these effects comparatively vary across Europe. Europe is experiencing a steady democratic decline. The trend is dis

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/eu-funds-research-about-democratic-decline-and-protest-culture - 2025-11-05

Climate change is a reality for communities globally, forcing governments and international agencies to propose climate adaptation measures. For many people, these top-down approaches don't always align with their needs, values or legal rights. Ana Maria Vargas is one of the researchers in the project "Everyday forms of resistance to state adaptation regulation: An ethnographic study of responses

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/the-justice-in-resisting-climate-change-policies - 2025-11-05

In October last year, the Sociology of Law Department's researcher and senior lecturer Patrik Olsson was invited to a conference in Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent to contribute with expertise on the country's social and political development. On October 24, 2024, an international conference on the topic "Development of Free Civil Society and Non-Governmental Non-Profit Organizations" was held in Ta

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/patrik-olsson-invited-uzbekistan-expert-civil-society-and-non-profit-development - 2025-11-05

Ida Nafstad and Heraclitos Muhire each had an article among the five most downloaded from the journal Justice, Power and Resistance last year. Both articles have been accessed more than 2000 times since their publication. Ida Nafstad wrote the article "Police abolition and transformative justice in the footsteps of Thomas Mathiesen's penal abolition", outlining Thomas Mathiesen's penal abolition t

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/two-articles-department-among-jprs-most-downloaded - 2025-11-05

Anna Lundberg has received funding for two projects investigating how and why public employees and trade unions respectively mobilise against the government's Informers Act. The law makes it mandatory for staff in certain public organisations to report undocumented migrants to the border police. In the "Human Rights Mobilization of Welfare Professionals Against the Informers Act – Arguments, Strat

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/anna-lundberg-leads-two-new-projects-studying-informer-act - 2025-11-05

On Tuesday November 27 the first Nordic Huntington Disease Research Meeting took place at the Biomedical Center in Lund.  50 participants from Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway took part of interesting data blitz presentations about clinical research, mechanisms of disease and future therapies. The pauses during the day gave opportunity to interesting discussions and the possibility to interact

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/nordic-huntington-disease-research-meeting - 2025-11-05

Huntington Center in Lund is hosting an information meeting on Huntington's disease on November 19 at the Biomedical Center in Lund. Åsa Petersén will give a talk on the latest research in HD and Håkan Widner, professor and senior consultant in neurology, will be talking about symptoms and treatment. The Huntington team from the Neurology clinic at Lund University Hospital will be presenting their

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/information-evening-huntingtons-disease - 2025-11-05

Petersén gives research talk for young people in HD families on November 10 2018 in Stockholm at a 2-day conference organised by the Swedish Huntington Association “Riksförbundet för Huntingtons sjukdom". Read more about this event on Riksförbundet för Huntingtons sjukdom's webpage (in Swedish)

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-gives-research-talk-young-people-hd-families-stockholm - 2025-11-05

Åsa Petersén has been awarded a four-year project grant from the Swedish Research Council (VR), starting from 2019. The grant is awarded for the project entitled Effects of hypothalamic circuitries in Huntington disease. The total granted sum is 4.8 million for 2019-2022.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-granted-funds-swedish-research-council - 2025-11-05

Yesterday it was announced that Professor Åsa Petersén will receive the Fernström award at Lund University for younger, successful researchers. The prize is awarded six researches at different Medical Faculties in Sweden, where each and one receives the sum of SEK 100 000. The Lund award ceremony will take place on November 7 at “Forskningens dag”.Congratulations, Åsa!Read more (in Swedish)

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/professor-petersen-fernstrom-awardee - 2025-11-05