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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 - 2026-01-21

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 - 2026-01-21

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 - 2026-01-21

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 - 2026-01-21

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 - 2026-01-21

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 - 2026-01-21

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 - 2026-01-21

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 - 2026-01-21

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 - 2026-01-21

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 - 2026-01-21

For generations, Indigenous and riverine communities in the Amazon have relied on deep ecological knowledge to live in harmony with the rainforest. But, as climate disasters reshape the woodlands, local expertise is often overlooked in environmental policies and scientific studies. A new research project aims to change that. In 2023 and 2024, the Amazon faced severe droughts. Rivers dried up, cutt

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-project-aims-bridge-climate-policy-and-indigenous-knowledge-amazon - 2026-01-21

The prize, one of the leading international honours in socio-legal studies, recognises Hydén’s long impact on the field, both as a pioneering theorist and an influential mentor. In their award citation, the jury lauds Professor Emeritus Håkan Hydén for promoting the establishment of sociology of law as an autonomous social science and developing it into what he has defined as a science of norms. H

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/hakan-hyden-awarded-podgorecki-prize - 2026-01-21

Exploring issues of methodology from a doctrinal as well as from an interdisciplinary perspective this new book by Reza Banakar also maps the development of law and socio-legal research from industrialisation to globalisation and searches for forms of regulation which can effectively meet the challenges of contemporary global/network society Normativity in Legal SociologyThe field of socio-legal r

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-book-methodological-reflections-law-and-regulation-late-modernity - 2026-01-21

The past 12 years they have been educating educationalists worldwide on children's rights through the training programme "Child Rights, Classroom and School Management", sponsored by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA). Per Wickenberg, director of studies at the Sociology of Law Department, Lund University, recently came back from Kozhikode in India where he and his team were on a

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/teachers-should-respect-students-listen-them - 2026-01-21

Professor Reza Banakar’s book Normativity in Legal Sociology. Methodological Reflections on Law and Regulation in Late Modernity has recently been released. It studies of the role of normativity in socio-legal research also looking at the challenges posed to modern law by the socio-cultural implications of globalisation.The book explores issues of methodology from a doctrinal as well as an interdi

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/banakars-new-book-normativity-socio-legal-research - 2026-01-21

The self-regulation of rickshaw drivers in Bogota, Colombia was the topic of the talk when Ana Maria Vargas Falla presented a chapter of her coming dissertation at the annual meeting of The Law & Society Association in Seattle, May 28-31, 2015. The conference theme was Law’s Promise and Law’s Pathos in the Global North and Global South.Ana Maria Vargas Falla reports back that there were: "Great di

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/vargas-falla-talked-about-coming-theses-seattle - 2026-01-21

Due to an anonymous threat made toward the university and its students via the app Jodel, which the police regards very seriously, the university will be closed on Monday for all students and staff at all campuses. More information will be posted on the university websites www.lu.se and www.lunduniversity.lu.se during the day. If you have any questions you can call +46 46-222 07 00 from 8 am Monda

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/lund-university-closed-monday-12-october - 2026-01-21

Isabel Schoultz at the Sociology of Law Department has together with Janne Flyghed at the Department of Criminology at Stockholm University been granted 3.9 million SEK from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) for the project Business as usual. Corporate defense strategies against accusations of crime. The project aims to study what strategies companies apply when defending themselves against accusatio

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/39-million-rj-business-usual - 2026-01-21

Hate crimes are a part of the daily lives of many Roma and remarkably often children are the victims. At the same time reports of these crimes are very low as well as solving rates. This is now shown in two reports on hate crime that the Swedish Commission against antiziganism (Kommissionen mot antiziganism) has ordered.Today, Friday 23rd October, hate crimes and which measures should be taken aga

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/why-hate-crimes-antiziganistic-motives-seldom-are-solved - 2026-01-21

The new book by Reza Banakar, Driving Culture in Iran: Law and Society on the Roads of the Islamic Republic, argues that Iranians’ driving behaviour is an indicator of how they have historically related to each other and to their society at large, and how they have maintained a form of social order through law, culture and religion. Published by I.B.Tauris (London and New York)Iran has one of the

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/banakar-explores-dangerous-driving-habits-iran - 2026-01-21