Published 11 March 2024 Markus Gunneflo, the new coordinator of the Agenda 2030 Graduate School. Photo: Kennet Rouna Late last year, Markus Gunneflo was appointed by the vice-chancellor to lead the Lund University Agenda 2030 graduate school. Markus has always felt at home in interdisciplinary environments, and working with PhD students has been the most enjoyable part of his professional life. A

https://www.law.lu.se/article/markus-gunneflo-appointed-new-coordinator-graduate-school-critical-societal-challenges - 2025-04-19

Published 5 April 2024 The Academic Appointments Board has today 4 April 2024 decided to appoint Anna Nilsson as Associate Professor (docent) in human rights. Anna Nilsson defended her PhD at the Faculty of Law in 2017 with a thesis on whether and, if so, under what circumstances, compulsory mental health care is lawful under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. After defe

https://www.law.lu.se/article/new-associate-professor-human-rights - 2025-04-19

Published 15 May 2024 The Academic Appointments Board has 13 May 2024 decided to appoint Matthew Scott as Associate Professor (docent) in public international law. Matthew Scott defended his PhD thesis in public international law at the Faculty of Law in 2018. The focus of his research was on the application of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees in situations of cross-border cl

https://www.law.lu.se/article/new-associate-professor-public-international-law - 2025-04-19

Published 16 May 2024 The government has decided to appoint Mia Rönnmar as Vice-Chancellor of Malmö University for the period 1 August 2024 – 31 July 2030. The Dean of the Faculty of Law Henrik Wenander says:– We are proud and happy that Mia Rönnmar has been given this exciting assignment. She has the qualities and experience required to lead and develop Malmö University. It is of course sad for t

https://www.law.lu.se/article/mia-ronnmar-appointed-new-vice-chancellor-malmo-university - 2025-04-19

Published 31 May 2024 Every year, the Law Students' Union (Juridiska Föreningen or JF) presents a pedagogical prize to a teacher at the faculty who students consider to be an excellent educator and who has thereby contributed to a better education. In 2024, Yana Litins'ka, senior lecturer, is being awarded the prize. The motivation states that Yana Litins'ka is awarded the prize for teaching with

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Published 31 May 2024 The Law Students' Union (Juridiska Föreningen or JF) has decided to award a prize for outstanding service to students to a teacher at the Faculty. Ellika Sevelin, Senior Lecturer at the Faculty, is awarded the prize 2024. The motivation states, that Ellika Sevelin is being recognized for always considering the students' perspectives and for her efforts to improve the situatio

https://www.law.lu.se/article/ellika-sevelin-awarded-prize-law-students-union-particularly-outstanding-efforts-towards-students - 2025-04-19

Published 3 June 2024 Book cover Cambridge University Press has published Valentin Jeutner’s latest book, entitled The Reasonable Person: A Legal Biography. In the book, Valentin traces the common law’s concept of the reasonable person across time and space, and across a diverse number of legal fields including (ancient) legal history, contract, tort, and criminal law as well as jurisprudence and

https://www.law.lu.se/article/valentin-jeutner-publishes-biography-reasonable-person - 2025-04-19

Published 3 June 2024 Valentin Jeutner and Hannah Strømmen (Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, CTR) have received 2.3 million SEK from the LMK- Foundation for a project on biblical and legal studies. The project will fund a postdoctoral position hosted at CTR and linked to Juridicum. The objective of the position is to study how biblical and legal studies relate to eachother in a contempor

https://www.law.lu.se/article/valentin-jeutner-awared-funding-lmk-foundation-law-religion-project - 2025-04-19

Published 4 June 2024 Through a collaboration between Ragnar Söderbergs stiftelse and the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Julian Nowag will arrange an academic conference at the Royal Academy during 2025-2026.The collaboration is aimed to provide distinguished, younger researchers to arrange an academic conference with internationally renowned speakers. With this initiative Ragnar Söderbergs sti

https://www.law.lu.se/article/julian-nowag-arrange-conference-royal-swedish-academy-science - 2025-04-19

Published 5 June 2024 On 30 May, the Faculty held its annual Research Day, where this year's honorary doctor and the new doctorates gave inspiring lectures. Pictured, from left, are Faculty Marshals Richard Croneberg and Anna Zemskova, new doctors Alexander Hardenberger, Lovisa Häckner Posse and Alezini Loxa, and Honorary Doctor David Lagnado.  The ceremony took place on 31 May.  

https://www.law.lu.se/article/facultys-research-day - 2025-04-19

Published 10 June 2024 Documentation must be sent to the faculty no later than 15 September 2024. The application must be submitted to the Foundation no later than 8 October 2024. Objectives of the callThe main objectives for the call are:to provide prominent early-career researchers in law with substantial funding that will allow them to advance in their academic career,to support new research fi

https://www.law.lu.se/article/ragnar-soderberg-foundation-announces-funding-postdoctoral-projects - 2025-04-19

Published 9 September 2024 The Academic Appointments Board decided on 5 September 2024 to appoint Yana Litins’ka as Associate Professor in Public Law. Yana Litins’ka holds a doctoral degree in medical law (Uppsala University, 2018). Her doctoral thesis concerns the capacity assessments to decide on medical treatment within national and international human rights law. From 2020 to 2022, she worked

https://www.law.lu.se/article/new-associate-professor-public-law - 2025-04-19

By ellen [dot] albertsdottir [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Ellen Albertsdóttir) - published 20 March 2023 The issue of vulnerable working conditions in health and social care professions was raised during the pandemic. The pandemic highlighted a number of serious problems in the working conditions of those working in care. A major new EU-funded research project will investigate the working condition

https://www.law.lu.se/article/working-conditions-care-workers-be-studied-eu - 2025-04-19

By ellen [dot] fall [at] sambib [dot] lu [dot] se (Ellen Fall) - published 31 January 2025 The Social Sciences Faculty Library, Sambib, has added content to the large database Sage Research Methods. From January 2025 you will have access to Sage Cases and Sage Foundations, in addition to the already available resources. Sage CasesAuthentic cases taken from research projects, where the reader can f

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-sage-research-methods - 2025-04-19

Published 17 February 2025 Due to a vacancy in the Faculty Board a by-election is now being held. You have until 3 March to cast your vote. Since Torsten Krause has been offered and accepted the assignment as deputy director of LUCSUS, a by-election is now being held to replace his position as teaching staff member with research expertise in the Faculty Board.  All those entitled to vote and nomin

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/vote-election-faculty-board-0 - 2025-04-19

Published 14 February 2025 Scopus AI is a research tool that uses Scopus content to help you understand or explore a research area. You can ask natural language questions in both Swedish and English. Answers are based on abstracts found in Scopus and are given in the form of a summary with references, concept map and suggestions for further study. Use Scopus AI to explore topics - it becomes a com

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Published 25 February 2025 In February, Emma Tullberg began her position as project manager with responsibility for building up the Faculty's support function for commissioned education. Emma will be part of the education team at the Faculty Office and work closely with the deputy dean with responsibility for education and the vice dean with responsibility for collaboration. In 2024, the vice-chan

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-support-function-commissioned-education - 2025-04-19

Published 26 February 2025 The University is establishing a new Centre for Preparedness and Resilience (LUPREP) at Campus Helsingborg. By strengthening research, collaboration and education in total defence and preparedness, the aim is to meet society's increasing need for security and crisis management. The Centre for Preparedness and Resilience is organised by the Faculty of Social Sciences, but

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-centre-preparedness-and-resilience-be-established - 2025-04-19

Published 4 March 2025 The by-election to the Faculty Board has now been completed and Annika Björkdahl has been appointed as a new board member. Due to a vacancy in the Faculty Board in the category of teaching staff member with research expertise, the Faculty held a by-election between 17 February and 3 March. A public count of votes has now taken place at the Faculty Office. The election result

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-member-faculty-board - 2025-04-19

Published 21 March 2025 Some drafts of what the University's future education pages might look like. The project, "A unified web experience for education", is now going into an intense phase at all Lund University faculties. The aim of the project is to create a university-wide, modern and quality-assured service website that guides prospective students in their choice of education. Today, informa

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/moving-towards-unified-web-experience-students - 2025-04-19