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3 Apr 2025
Sociology of Law Department Leads €5.5M EU-Funded Research on Authoritarian Law and Legality in Central Asia
A PhD programme exploring law and governance in authoritarian regimes across Central Asia has received nearly €4.7 million in funding from the European Commission, with an addition...
12 Mar 2025
Anna Lundberg leads two new projects studying the Informer Act
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 la...
5 Mar 2025
Two articles from the Department among the JPR’s most downloaded
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...
27 Jan 2025
The justice in resisting climate change policies
Climate change is a reality for communities globally, forcing governments and international agencies to propose climate adaptation measures. For many people, these top-down approac...
21 Jan 2025
Patrik Olsson invited to Uzbekistan as expert on civil society and non-profit development
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...
10 Jan 2025
EU funds research about democratic decline and protest culture
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,...
6 Dec 2024
Ana Maria Vargas Falla reflects on COP29
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 legisla...
11 Nov 2024
Department granted funds to invite researcher from the University of Melbourne
27 Sep 2024
Oscar Björkenfeldt completes the doctoral student programme
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 Imp...
26 Jun 2024
Several successful grant applications in June
The Sociology of Law Department received four positive answers for funding requests this month.