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Lund University is listed at place 36 in the world-ranking for law. Times Higher Education (THE) is one of the three leading international rankings of universities and higher education institutions, and it is based on 18 indicators in teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The THE ranking of universities for 2025 was published in October last year, and Lund University wa

https://www.law.lu.se/article/excellent-placement-law-lund-university-times-higher-educations-world-ranking-2025 - 2026-01-09

Professors Marta Pertegás Sender and Jeremias Adams-Prassl have been awarded honorary doctorates by the Faculty. Marta Pertegás SenderProfessor Marta Pertegás Sender, Maastricht University, started her career in academia as a doctoral student in Leuven and obtained her PhD in 2000 with a thesis on cross-border patent infringement. As a recent PhD graduate, Marta worked as a teacher and researcher

https://www.law.lu.se/article/honorary-doctorates-2025 - 2026-01-09

Professor Martin Sunnqvist explains how the changes in the Danish royal coat of arms puts an end to an old Swedish-Danish conflict. Denmark's King Frederik X recently announced a change to the royal coat of arms. This put an end to a 17th century Swedish-Danish conflict, according to Martin Sunnqvist, who writes about the controversial event in the news platform The Conversation. Read the article

https://www.law.lu.se/article/denmarks-new-royal-coat-arms-marks-end-400-year-old-long-conflict - 2026-01-09

The Faculty of Law announces a vacancy for a doctoral position in private, private international, or procedural law. The application period is between February 5 and March 19.The field of private law consists of legal norms that regulate relations between private legal entities, as well as legal relations between public and private legal entities based on voluntary legal acts. It includes, in part

https://www.law.lu.se/article/call-application-doctoral-position - 2026-01-09

Purpose: to promote legal research at the Faculty of Law in Lund. Through its activities, the Foundation will support, encourage and facilitate research at the faculty. Anyone actively conducting research at the Faculty of Law in Lund is eligible to apply for a grant. Grants will be awarded primarily for costs directly incurred while conducting or reporting on a research project. This includes suc

https://www.law.lu.se/article/rune-and-lena-lavin-foundation-legal-research-faculty-law-lund-1 - 2026-01-09

The Government has appointed Erik Sjöman, LL.D. h.c., as a Justice of the Supreme Court. Erik Sjöman, who holds a Master of Laws degree from our faculty, was awarded an honorary doctorate at the Faculty of Law in 2023. In the motivation for the honorary doctorate, the faculty paid particular attention to his contribution to the discussion of legal science in articles and book projects, in many cas

https://www.law.lu.se/article/erik-sjoman-honorary-doctor-law-appointed-justice-supreme-court - 2026-01-09

The Lund University Centre for Business Law (ACLU) has been awarded funding of SEK 6 million for its activities during the years 2025-2029. The three Lund-based foundations Crafoordska stiftelsen, LMK-stiftelsen and Sparbanksstiftelsen Finn have jointly chosen to support ACLU's activities during these five years. ACLU was founded in 2016 with the aim both to assemble and to strengthen the necessar

https://www.law.lu.se/article/aclu-awarded-funding-its-2025-2029-operations - 2026-01-09

From the early 19th century, various committees worked on reforms of Swedish civil law, criminal law, and procedural law. In order to find possible solutions to legal problems, these committees acquired a large amount of Swedish and foreign legal literature. The literature collection, which from 1902 formally belonged to the so-called Lagberedningen (Law Commission), thus constitutes, with its app

https://www.law.lu.se/article/sek-700-000-faculty-law-legal-historical-treasure-worth-preserving - 2026-01-09

The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanity and Society (WASP-HS) och SciLifeLab, Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS), has recently granted funds of 3 967 000 SEK to the project "Explainable and Just AI in Data-Driven Disease Surveillance".Atiye Sadat Hashemi and Yana Litins'ka are leading the project which constitutes an interdisciplinary coll

https://www.law.lu.se/article/yana-litinska-awarded-funding-interdisciplinary-project - 2026-01-09

The final of the European Law Moot Court Competition (ELMC), one of the most prestigious moot court competitions in the world (around 80 universities participating), was held at the Court of Justice of the EU in Luxembourg last week. Two teams of Lund University were competing in this truly historical moment (it was indeed the first time ever that two teams of the same University were competing ag

https://www.law.lu.se/article/great-success-moot-court-competition - 2026-01-09

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 follow how methods were selected and applied. The database is particularly useful when teach

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-sage-research-methods - 2026-01-09

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 nominate had the opportunity to

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/vote-election-faculty-board-0 - 2026-01-09

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 complement to your search.Find

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/lund-university-now-provides-access-scopus-ai-tool - 2026-01-09

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-chancellor decided to decentral

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-support-function-commissioned-education - 2026-01-09

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 seven of the university's

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-centre-preparedness-and-resilience-be-established - 2026-01-09

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 results show that Annika Björ

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-member-faculty-board - 2026-01-09

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, information about the university's programmes and courses is spread across many different websites at univer

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/moving-towards-unified-web-experience-students - 2026-01-09

Lund University moves forward with the development project at Campus Helsingborg. In the next step, the pre-design phase, architects will present a sketch of a new layout of the University's premises. The architects do their work in dialogue with the University's project group. The plan is to forward a sketch for consideration to relevant actors within the University in the autumn of 2025."The pre

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/pre-design-phase-campus-helsingborg - 2026-01-09

This autumn, the Faculty is again offering the course "Gender and diversity in teaching and learning". The course is part of the pedagogical training programme for teachers and doctoral students at the Faculty of Social Sciences. It provides a space to analyse gender and diversity both within the University as an organisation and in teaching and learning situations in the classroom.The application

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/learn-more-about-gender-and-diversity-teaching - 2026-01-09

This autumn, the Faculty is again offering the course "Gender and diversity in teaching and learning". The course is part of the pedagogical training programme for teachers and doctoral students at the Faculty of Social Sciences. It provides a space to analyse gender and diversity both within the University as an organisation and in teaching and learning situations in the classroom.The application

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-opportunity-teachers-learn-more-about-gender-and-diversity - 2026-01-09