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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In mid-June, Amin Parsa, postdoctoral fellow at the Sociology of Law Department, participated in the “Expert Workshop on Race, Borders, and Digital Technologies”. Parsa presented parts of his research on the use and development of digital technologies of mobility monitoring within the context of the European border co
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Senior Professor featured at the Rule of Law Forum of the 2020 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. On July 10, as Håkan Hydén, Senior Professor in Sociology of Law, gave his presentation from his home office in Lund, the organisers at the China Justice Big Data Institute projected him on a massiv
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/hakan-hyden-appears-china-speak-about-digital-technologys-effect-law - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. This past spring, Sociology of Law Department postdoc Jannice Käll published a critical study of property control in the online edition of Harvard International Law Journal. In “The Materiality of Data as Property”, Jannice Käll examines how in modern culture personal data is being conceived as objects separate from p
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/similarities-between-oil-drilling-and-extraction-personal-data - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Associate Senior Lecturer Isabel Schoultz and project assistant Heraclitos Muhire at the Sociology of Law Department lead the endeavour they hope will help improve labour market policies and practices, bettering the conditions for immigrated labourers. In a report published in 2019, the European Union Agency for Funda
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociologists-law-investigating-migrant-worker-exploitation-nordics - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Since COVID-19 spread to Russia, national authorities have cut off all access to prisons. Based on his recent research, Rustamjon Urinboyev speculates how the everyday lives of transnational Muslim prisoners in Russia are likely to have changed in lockdown. When the coronavirus pandemic hit Russia, all correctional fa
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/locked-lockdown - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Special Area Studies course “The UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, Children's Rights, and Global Health” starts for the first time on November 5. In the brand new, inter-European course, students learn how the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child interplays with global health, and internati
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/child-rights-and-global-health-interplay-new-course - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Monika Lindbekk’s editorship for Brill generated a double special issue of Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, depicting how family law is adjudicated in Muslim-majority countries. The scientific study of Muslim family law has increased considerably since the 1970’s. Social scientists from a ran
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/monika-lindbekk-editor-special-issue-muslim-family-law - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. It may seem as if senior lecturer Patrik Olsson is only doing one of two things this semester: lecturing, or sitting deep under thousands of pages of take-home exams, reading and grading. It turns out he is not. In the end of November, senior lecturer Patrik Olsson went on a digital tour covering half the planet withi
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/patrik-olsson-globetrots-peru-uzbekistan-five-days-global-conference-tour - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In early December 2020, the Sociology of Law Department confirmed that a new leadership had been elected. Matthias Baier, the Head of Department at the time, had declined to run for re-election. Instead, the staff elected Isabel Schoultz. After eleven years as director and Head of Department at the Sociology of Law De
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-head-sociology-law-department - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. At the end of last summer, Amin Parsa and Niklas Selberg interviewed Professor Adelle Blackett about her teaching and research on decolonization of labour law and legal education. The conversation was recently made public. On 31 August 2020, the Sociology of Law Department’s Postdoc Amin Parsa, and Niklas Selberg, lec
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/decolonizing-labour-law-conversation-professor-adelle-blackett - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Universities all over the world have closed their campuses and turned to digital teaching solutions. Even though students are stuck at home, the new environment may have advantages over the conventional academic setting. Martin Joormann, Postdoc at the Sociology of Law Department, represents Lund University in Virtual
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/will-travel-bans-lead-more-internationalized-classrooms - 2026-05-27
Application deadline: 13 November During the spring of 2024, two new PhD courses are planned, Asia in the Global Economy and The Craft of Writing and Publishing Peer Reviewed Journal Articles. Please check the links for more information and application forms if you are interested. Application deadline: 13 November. If you are interested but the timing of the course doesn't work, please drop us an
EU in the Volatile Indo-Pacific Region (EUVIP) is coordinated by Palacký University and also includes Lund University, the University of Helsinki and the Catholic University of Louvain. On 17-21 June EUVIP will organise a summer school in Olomouc on the topic Navigating Geostrategic Dynamics in the Indo-Pacific: Focus on Southeast Asia and MyanmarFor more information see the EUVIP website
https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/summer-school-news - 2026-05-27
The Centre announces 1-2 fully funded PhD positions. East and South-East Asian Studies is an interdisciplinary subject that focuses on contemporary phenomena and processes in the region as a whole as well as in individual countries. The subject integrates theoretical and methodological perspectives from area studies with different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Application dead
https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/1-2-fully-funded-phd-positions-east-and-south-east-asian-studies - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Annika Bergman Rosamond and Annica Kronsell have co-authored the journal article "Cosmopolitan militaries and dialogic peacekeeping: Danish and Swedish women soldiers in Afghanistan" in International Femininist Journal of Politics, October 2017. Read full article at Taylor & Francis Online Annika Bergman Rosamonds per
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-female-soldiers-and-dialogic-peacekeeping - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Ted Svensson has co-authored an article that was recently published in Journal of Social and Political Psychology. It is entitled 'Lessons from the Past for the Future: The Definition and Mobilisation of Hindu Nationhood by the Hindu Nationalist Movement of India'. The article, which is informed by a self-categorisati
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Tomas Bergström, Head of Department of Political Science, explains the rule of thumb of a 40-60 percent ratio between female and male authors represented in course reading lists. "Only one of many tools for generating awareness of gender issues among the department’s staff and students." How are reading lists adopted
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/objective-serves-tool-reflection-not-straightjacket - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The teacher representatives on the board of the Department of Political Science in response to Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein's guest editorial in SvD concerning gender distribution among authors on course reading lists. In a guest editorial in the daily SvD on 7 November, Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein expresses indignat
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/guideline-gender-distribution-does-not-influence-course-content - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Karin Aggestam och Ann Towns have edited a new book on Gendering Diplomacy and International Negotiation (Palgrave). About the book:This path-breaking book addresses the oft-avoided, yet critical question: where are the women located in contemporary diplomacy and international negotiation? The text presents a novel re
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-aggestam-towns-gendering-diplomacy-and-international-negotiations - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Analyzing how the concept of war has been used in different contexts from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth century, Jens Bartelson inquires into the underlying and often unspoken assumptions about the nature of war, and how these have shaped our understanding of the modern political world and the role of war wit
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-jens-bartelson-war-international-thought - 2026-05-27
