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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Hanna Bäck has co-authored the chapter "No More Political Insiders? Ministerial Selection in Sweden During the Post-WWII period" which was published recently in a book on technocratic ministers in the European countries. The chapter investigates Swedish ministers' background and shows that most ministers have had a so

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/most-swedish-ministers-have-had-solid-political-background - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Department of Political Science is co-hosting the 2017 Lund Conference on Earth System Governance held at Lucsus in October. The conference is part of the global series organised by the Earth System Governance Project. The conference theme Allocation and access in a warming and increasingly unequal world will be a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/full-programme-esg-conference-announced-fariborz-zelli-reflects-importance-conference - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Carlo Knotz, who defended his dissertation "Getting Tough on Unemployment" at the Department of Political Science in Lund in December 2016, has been awarded the 2017 Research Prize by the Swedish Federation of Unemployment Insurance Funds. He shares the prize with Patrik Vulkan at the University of Gothenburg.The priz

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/knotz-awarded-research-prize - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson have recently published an article entitled 'Ontological Security and the Limits to a Common World: Subaltern Pasts and the Inner-Worldliness of the Tablighi Jama'at' in Postcolonial Studies. The article attends to the contested notions of transnationalism, globality and ontological

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-and-svensson-transnationalism-and-ontological-security - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) has granted 35,1 million SEK to the 6 year research programme "Civil society elites? Comparing elite composition, reproduction, integration and contestation in European civil societies". The programme is led by professor Håkan Johansson at the School of Social Work at LU. Participants fr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-research-programme-civil-society-elites - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Between Thursday 26 to Saturday 28 October, The Lund University Critical Animal Studies Network (LUCASN) will be hosting Sweden’s very first international conference in Critical Animal Studies. As co-founders of LUCASN, Jana Canavan and Kurtis Boyer from the Political Science Department are co-organisers of the confer

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/swedens-first-international-critical-animal-studies-conference-lund - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Jakob Skovgaard has published the article “The Role of Finance Ministries in Environmental Policy Making: The case of European Union Emissions Trading System reform in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands” in the journal “Environmental Policy and Governance”. The article concerns the role of finance ministries on the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jakob-skovgaard-finance-ministries-and-environmental-policy-making - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Department of Political science researchers Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren, Niklas Altermark and Linda Nyberg all awarded grants from Forte. Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren has, together with Patrik Hall, Mats Fred and Kettil Nordesjö from Malmö University, been awarded 6 million for the project "Acquiring practical knowledge: social

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/three-grants-departments-research-group-public-administration - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Child Rights Institute organized a meeting last week to highlight the importance of the Convention on the Rights of the Child for municipal activities. Simrishamn's, Kristianstad's and Trelleborg's municipalities shared how they are working with the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), as well as which cha

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/how-municipalities-are-working-child-rights - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Morgan Johansson, the Swedish Minister for Justice and Migration, visited the Sociology of Law Department to talk about how the law works in society  How do rules and regulations really work in society? This afternoon, some 60 people gathered in the University building in Lund to discuss the subject sociology of law a

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/how-law-works-society - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Yesterday afternoon some 60 people gathered in the conference room at Palaestra in Lund to participate in the seminar ”Universities' role in sustainable change work” hosted by LUCE, Child Rights Institute at Lund University (CRi@LU) and partners. The event marked the start of a new online global platform aiming to str

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/change-agents-childrens-rights-told-their-stories - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Ana Maria Vargas has been awarded the FALF-prize for best doctoral thesis in Sweden 2016 in the field of work and working environment. Her thesis is called "Outside the Law - An Ethnographic Study of Street Vendors In Bogota". The jury consisting of the board of FALF, forum for working life research, motivates the cho

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/award-winning-account-street-vendors-and-rickshaws-bogota - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Ann-Christine Hartzén defended her doctoral dissertation ”The European Social Dialogue in Perspective: Its future potential as an autopoietic system and lessons from the global maritime system of industrial relations” today 15th September at one o'clock in room 128 at Stora Algatan 4 in Lund. Discussant: Professor Bet

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/ann-christine-hartzen-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. This autumn five master's students are doing their internship at the Sociology of Law Department in two different research projects. The Master's Programme in Sociology of Law, SASOL, is a multidisciplinary programme that is given here at the Sociology of Law Department in Lund. During the third semester (out of four)

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/interns-sociology-law-department-look-child-rights-and-working-life - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Eva Schömer has published an article in the journal Arbetsmarknad och Arbetsliv (Labour Market and Working Life), which illustrates how personal assistants experience their working environment and which opportunities they have to influence their working conditions from a socio-legal perspective. Eva Schömer links pers

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/kind-legal-no-mans-land-says-eva-schomer - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Isabel Schoultz and Ida Nafstad were on an Erasmus-exchange at University of Sarajevo between 23-27 October. They visited both the Faculty for Criminal Justice Sciences and Criminology, and the Faculty of Political Science. During their stay they held lectures on topics such as Legal pluralism and laws of everyday lif

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/erasmus-exchange-university-sarajevo - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Many people in Sweden do not know that they are entitled legal help through their household insurance. Doctor Isabel Schoultz reviews legal aid in Sweden in a chapter for the book Legal aid in the Nordic countries, edited by Olaf Halvorsen Rønning and Ole Hammerslev, available online as an open-access source. Today, S

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/many-unaware-their-right-legal-help - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On Wednesday 17th January students and researchers gathered in Stadshallen in Lund for the Sociology of Law Department's annual Panorama Day. The panorama day acts as the first meeting between students and researchers and gives students insight into the breadth of research offered by the Sociology of Law Department.St

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/students-gained-insight-breadth-research - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. COLLABORATION WITH UZBEKISTAN: The Sociology of Law Department at Lund University and the University of World Economy and Diplomacy in Uzbekistan are closely collaborating within the Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility Programme. Both partner universities exchange academic staff, PhD students, master and undergradu

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/language-skills-and-international-workshop-migration-and-informality-when-interns-uzbekistan-visit - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. MASTER DEGREE GRADUATION CEREMONY 4 JUNE 2018. Congratulations to the first group of students who successfully completed our on-campus master’s programme in sociology of law. This interdisciplinary campus-based programme replaced the previous on-line master's programme and means the students now meet regularly for lec

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/first-students-graduate-new-masters-programme - 2026-05-15