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 - 2025-07-25

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 - 2025-07-25

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

https://www.law.lu.se/article/yana-litinska-awarded-pedagogical-prize-law-students-union - 2025-07-25

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 - 2025-07-25

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 - 2025-07-25

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 - 2025-07-25

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 - 2025-07-25

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 - 2025-07-25

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 - 2025-07-25

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 - 2025-07-25

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 - 2025-07-25

Published 20 March 2023 Anna Tzanaki and Annegret Engel are new associate professors at the faculty. Annegret Engel and Anna Tzanaki appointed Associate Professors. The Appointments Committee has 9 March decided to appoint Annnegret Engel and Anna Tzanaki as Associate Professors in EU Law. Learn more about Annegret Engel and her research in the Lund University Research portal. Learn more about Ann

https://www.law.lu.se/article/new-associate-professors-eu-law - 2025-07-25

Published 18 September 2024 Alezini Loxa The European Group of Public Law (EGPL), the European Scientific Council of the European Public Law Organization (EPLO) has awarded Alezini Loxa the 2024 Thesis Prize for her doctoral thesis entitled “Sustainability and EU Migration Law: What Place for Migrant’s Rights?”.Since September 1994, the European Group of Public Law (EGPL), the European Scientific

https://www.law.lu.se/article/alezini-loxa-receives-prize-thesis - 2025-07-25

Published 27 September 2024 Photo: Alex Vasey/Unsplash. Martin Sunnqvist is coordinator for a new Pufendorf Advanced Study Group (ASG) at the Pufendorf Institute with the title Oaths and Courts – from Forum to the Future. This Advanced Study Group centres around the two keywords “Oaths” and “Courts”, and particularly the interaction between them. The independence and impartiality of judges, and th

https://www.law.lu.se/article/martin-sunnqvist-coordinator-new-pufendorf-advanced-study-group-asg-0 - 2025-07-25

Published 22 May 2014 European Platform of Women Scientists NEWSLETTER, issue 35, May 2014 Read the newsletter here (pdf)Content2 Message from the Vice-President 2 EPWS Executive Committee and Board of Administration 3 EPWS Seventh General Assembly 2014 Announcement 4 EPWS Conference: “New Perspectives for Women Scientists’ Careers in Europe” 5 Innovation Summit Fringe Session, March 2014 “Bridgin

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/epws-newsletter-may-2014 - 2025-07-25

Published 22 May 2014 "IN the world of higher education, we professors like to believe that we are free from the racial and gender biases that afflict so many other people in society. But is this self-conception accurate?"Read the whole story in the NY-times here

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/professors-are-prejudiced-too - 2025-07-25

Published 4 June 2014 In memory of Professor Cecilia Hägerhäll, our colleague and role-model, has left us too early after a long period of illness. Cecilia was a remarkable person and her work made a great impression and imprint. Her research focussed on fundamental details of the structure and function of enzyme complexes in mitochondria and has greatly increased the understanding of the respirat

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/memory-prof-cecilia-hagerhall - 2025-07-25

Published 16 June 2014 Yesterday the Nordic forum 2014 agreement was handed to all the Equality ministers in the Nordic countries and also to the UN Woman Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngucka. She encourages the Nordic countries to lead the way and be good examples in the common work for gender equality in the World by 2030.Read the agreement here (Swedish, pdf)

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/nordic-forum-2014-agreement - 2025-07-25

Published 30 June 2014 The EPWS Paris Conference “New Perspectives on Women Scientists Careers in Europe” was held on June 11th 2014, and followed by the EPWS General Assembly. On the link below you can find a summary of the meeting including all presentations (EPWS website): http://home.epws.org/EPWS-Paris-Conference-2014

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/epws-2014-summary - 2025-07-25

Published 3 July 2014 Is the gender-agenda the hero or enemy of equal opportunity in science? The gender-agenda is still-going-strong and in the news….all over the news. Sweden has a political party dedicated to gender equality and a couple of weeks ago the Nordic Forum 2014 was held in Malmö. Recently, and more locally the faculties (at least the faculty of medicine) have seen the gender-agenda  

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/epws-2014-report-wings - 2025-07-25