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16 Apr 2025 | News
Researchers studying protest culture gathered in Budapest for project kick-off
The project "ProTest: Protest as a Democracy Test. Protest Culture under Transformation and as a Transformative Power" was launched with a two-day kick-off meeting on 7–8 April at ...

3 Apr 2025 | News
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 | News
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 | News
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 | News
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...