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Petra Holmberg, postdoc in medical law at the Faculty of Law, won the Research Grand Prix competition in Helsingborg on 7 October. In front of an audience of over 500 secondary school students, she presented her research on the risks of 80 per cent of Gen Z using chatbots to manage stress or anxiety. “It’s not surprising, AI feels simple and safe. But my research shows that it can be downright dan

https://www.law.lu.se/article/petra-holmberg-wins-forskar-grand-prix-competition - 2025-12-29

Professor Marko Milanovic is appointed as Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Chair in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from September 2025. The Faculty of Law is honoured and pleased to announce that Professor Mark Milanovic, University of Reading, has been appointed as Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Chair in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from September 2025 until August 2027, and affiliated to the Faculty

https://www.law.lu.se/article/professor-marko-milanovic-appointed-raoul-wallenberg-visiting-chair - 2025-12-29

Julia Björverud is one of this year's seven recipients of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' 2025 Dissertation Prize for outstanding dissertations. In its justification for the nomination, the Faculty of Law stated, among other things: "In her thesis, Julia Björverud examined how the Swedish principle of public access to official records has been handled by legislators during the period 1809–1

https://www.law.lu.se/article/julia-bjorverud-awarded-royal-swedish-academy-sciences-dissertation-prize - 2025-12-29

The Swedish government has appointed Vilhelm Persson, professor of public law at the faculty, as a member of the board of the Swedish Institute for Human Rights. He succeeds another of the faculty's professors, Titti Mattsson, whose term as a board member expires at the end of the year. The Swedish Institute for Human Rights is an independent government agency tasked with protecting and promoting

https://www.law.lu.se/article/vilhelm-persson-appointed-new-board-member-swedish-institute-human-rights - 2025-12-29

Marie Jacobsson, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law in Lund, has been awarded a Doctor of Science in Maritime Affairs honoris causa in recognition of outstanding services to the international maritime community at the World Maritime University (WMU) in Malmö. Until her retirement in 2023, Marie Jacobsson was an ambassador and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs' Legal Adviser on International

https://www.law.lu.se/article/honorary-doctorate-world-maritime-university - 2025-12-29

LL.M. Max Bodin, who graduated from the law program at Lund University in the spring term of 2025, has been awarded the YAS (Young Arbitrators Sweden) prize for the best thesis in arbitration law in Sweden. The title of the thesis is: The Jurisdiction of Arbitral Tribunals to Examine Set-Off Claims in International Arbitration. The prize amount is SEK 15,000 and was presented during a ceremony in

https://www.law.lu.se/article/lund-university-student-max-bodin-receives-award-his-thesis-arbitration-law - 2025-12-29

Mariya Senyk has been awarded funding for the project “From the Court of Justice to the General Court: Can legitimacy be preserved?”. The project aims to analyse the General Court’s judgments during the first four years after part of the responsibility for preliminary rulings was transferred from the Court of Justice to the General Court. The focus is on cases concerning value-added tax and excise

https://www.law.lu.se/article/torsten-soderberg-foundation-awards-grant-eu-law-project - 2025-12-29

Positive news that the Rune and Lena Lavin Foundation for Legal Research at the Faculty of Law in Lund, at its autumn meeting, has decided to award SEK 176,500 to a total of seven applicants. Information about the spring 2026 call for applications will be published in March 2026.For the mandate period 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2028, the board consists of the following members:Associate Senior

https://www.law.lu.se/article/award-rune-and-lena-lavin-foundation-legal-research-0 - 2025-12-29

The fundraising campaign for establishing the world’s first Museum of International Law at the Faculty of Law has reached a major milestone. Thanks to a significant donation of SEK 143,000 from Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet i Lund (the Royal Society of the Humanities in Lund), as well as generous contributions from Mannheimer Swartling, Engström & Co., and the Human Rights Profile Area

https://www.law.lu.se/article/fundraising-milestone-reached-worlds-first-museum-international-law - 2025-12-29

The European Commission has, thankfully, approved funding of approximately 10 million SEK (892,000 EUR) for the research project FAMIMOVE (3.0). The project builds on the experiences of previous initiatives and focuses on examining the international family law regulations that become relevant when families move within the EU or to the EU from other countries, with a particular emphasis on the vuln

https://www.law.lu.se/article/research-grant-eu-project-famimove-30 - 2025-12-29

Dalila Osmanovic and Filippa Dyrefors share the first prize for their essays on the theme of competition and public procurement in the Swedish Competition Authority’s essay contest. Title of Filippa Dyrefors’ essay: The Legality of Self-Preferencing under Article 102 TFEU.Jury’s motivation: “The author addresses a subject that is marked by legal and academic uncertainty in an analytical manner. Th

https://www.law.lu.se/article/winners-swedish-competition-authoritys-essay-contest - 2025-12-29

On December 4, the Vice-Chancellor has decided to appoint Patrik Lindskoug as a Professor in Private Law at the Faculty of Law. Patrik Lindskoug's research focuses on national and international private law, with a particular emphasis on property rights and insolvency law, primarily from a Nordic perspective, but he also has a general interest in private international law and comparative law. Patri

https://www.law.lu.se/article/patrik-lindskoug-new-professor-private-law - 2025-12-29

Benjamin Petersson is one of the winners of the Swedish Parliament’s 2025 essay competition for the thesis: "Freedom in Obedience – On the Scope and Limits of Government Control over Public Authorities". The essays were evaluated by a prize committee that included the Speaker and the Deputy Speakers, and the winners were then appointed by the Secretary-General of the Parliament.From the prize comm

https://www.law.lu.se/article/winner-swedish-parliaments-essay-competition-2025 - 2025-12-29

Erik Grimhusen has been awarded a scholarship of SEK 20,000 from the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise for the best thesis on taxation in 2025. For the same thesis, Erik also received a scholarship of SEK 15,000 from the Institute for Tax and Legal Certainty. The title of the thesis is “Targeted Interest Deduction Limitations – The Proposal for New Rules in SOU 2024:37 in Light of X BV”. Accordi

https://www.law.lu.se/article/scholarship-recipient-twice-thesis-tax-law - 2025-12-29

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https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/lucid-annoncerar-doktorandjanst-i-humanekologi-och-i-samhallsgeografi - 2025-12-29

Elin Brudin (Kandidatprogram i samhällsplanering, kull 2011-2014) har blivit en tredjepristagare i MSB:s uppsatstävling 2014 for sin kandidatuppsats "GIS inom  risk- och sårbarhetsanalys. En analys av tre kommuner"! Läs merElins uppsats är tillgänglig och kan laddas ner från Lunds Universitets Databas. "GIS inom  risk- och sårbarhetsanalys. En analys av tre kommuner"

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/elin-brudin-har-fatt-ett-pris-i-msbs-uppsatstavling-2014 - 2025-12-29

Johan Sandberg, studierektor på LUMID - vårt masterprogram i "International Development and Management" - presenterade "Transformative Social Policy in Development? Demystifying Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America" i en ny skriftserie lanserat av Expertgruppen för Biståndsanalys."Transformative Social Policy in Development? Demystifying Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America"

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/studierektor-pa-lumid-johan-sandberg-presenterade-transformative-social-policy-development - 2025-12-29

Den 19/3 kl 16.00 - 17.00 (prick) är det informationsmöte i Världen (sal 111), angående vårens MFS-utlysning (med ansökning senast den 16:e april).

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/infomote-om-mfs-utlysning-193-16-17 - 2025-12-29

Tack för alla ansökningar till vårens MFS-utlysning! Till detta ansökningstillfälle fick vi in 14 ansökningar. Beslut har nu fattats om att utdela fyra stipendier. Beslut har nu fattats om att utdela fyra stipendier, som följaktligen går till:Anna EknorAnna SjölanderLovisa KlasonShabnam SharifpourVi passar på att gratulera våra stipendiater och ber er ta kontakt med Karin Lindsjö för mer informati

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/beslut-om-varens-mfs-utlysning - 2025-12-29

Ta gärna en titt på LUMIDs senaste nyhetsbrev för våren 2015! I nyhetsbrevet kan du bland annat läsa studierektor Johan Sandbergs upplevelser av programmet så långt, DPS-seminerier, Career development day den 29:e maj, erfarenheter från tidigare studenter, examensceremonin den 8:e juni och vår nya hemsida!  Nyhetsbrev

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/lumids-nyhetsbrev-varen-2015 - 2025-12-29