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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 challenges they see ahead. After the presentations there was a discussion about how

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/how-municipalities-are-working-child-rights - 2025-10-01

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 and the question of how the law works in society.The Sociology of Law Department h

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/how-law-works-society - 2025-10-01

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 strengthen international collaboration and research focusing on children’s rights an

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/change-agents-childrens-rights-told-their-stories - 2025-10-01

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 choice of thesis as follows:Ana Maria Vargas' thesis provides a very good ethnograph

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/award-winning-account-street-vendors-and-rickshaws-bogota - 2025-10-01

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 Bettina Lemann Kristiansen, Aarhus University.Grading committee: Håkan Hydén (Lund U

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/ann-christine-hartzen-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-10-01

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) of the programme students have the opportunity to choose an internship course of

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/interns-sociology-law-department-look-child-rights-and-working-life - 2025-10-01

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 personal assistants' work experience with some of the legal requirements that apply w

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/kind-legal-no-mans-land-says-eva-schomer - 2025-10-01

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 life, Crime, control and policy and White-collar crime for bachelor and master stude

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/erasmus-exchange-university-sarajevo - 2025-10-01

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, Sweden has a combination of public and private cover for legal expenses in civil c

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/many-unaware-their-right-legal-help - 2025-10-01

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.Students who study Sociology of Law, both within the Criminology programme and as a

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/students-gained-insight-breadth-research - 2025-10-01

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 undergraduate students within the Erasmus exchange programme.Staff from the Sociology of La

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/language-skills-and-international-workshop-migration-and-informality-when-interns-uzbekistan-visit - 2025-10-01

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 lectures and seminars at the Sociology of Law Department in Lund. The campus-based p

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/first-students-graduate-new-masters-programme - 2025-10-01

The trial against Telia and former employees who are charged with bribery after purchasing 3G licenses in Uzbekistan in 2007 begins this week. Our researcher Isabel Schoultz is in Stockholm's District Court investigating how the company is handling the crisis. – Simply put, you can say that the actual situation may have triggered crime, as it is difficult to combine high profit goals with doing bu

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/our-researcher-following-trial-against-telia - 2025-10-01

The digital platform Child Rights Online has now been launched in 14 countries and will provide teachers and aspiring teachers with a better understanding of the Convention on the Rights of the Child to offer children and young people a more inclusive and equal schooling. In recent years, the Child Rights Institute at Lund University has worked with the international digital platform Global Child

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/better-knowledge-child-rights-when-14-countries-contribute-digital-platform - 2025-10-01

Patrik Olsson and Rustam Urinboyev visited Tashkent in Uzbekistan in October to give policy advise on crime prevention and anti-corruption issues and were interviewed by Uzbek television. Two of our researchers in Sociology of Law, Senior Lecturer Patrik Olsson and Senior Research Fellow Rustam Urinboyev, are currently invited to give policy advise to the Academy of General Prosecutor’s Office of

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/uzbek-tv-reports-our-researchers-crime-prevention-and-anti-corruption-work-country - 2025-10-01

Staffan Michelson defended his doctoral thesis in Sociology of Law ”Empowerment and Private Law. Civil Impetus for Sustainable Development” Friday 30th November at one o'clock in the room Pufendorfsalen at the Faculty of Law, in Lund. The dissertation is the result of a study of private law viewed as a source of power for individuals to enhance values they favour. As an appropriate example of such

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/staffan-michelson-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-10-01

ONGOING RESEARCH: Amin Parsa’s research on migration and the use of new technology in tracing mobility focuses on how the use of such technology can potentially reshape our laws. – I want to show how our use of new technology is shaping the way that we do law, says Amin Parsa.– Generally my research is about the relationship between law and technology. Artificial intelligence and decision making t

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-technology-shapes-our-understanding-what-legal - 2025-10-01

Ghana’s “overall best student 2018” is studying Sociology of Law in Lund. Labiks’s story shows how far hard work and perseverance can get you. Ghana’s Inter Tertiary Excellence Award 2018 for Overall Best Student 4th Year in the academia category went to Thomas Duke Labik Amanquandor, who is studying the second semester of the Sociology of Law Master’s programme here in Lund. The Inter Tertiary Ex

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/student-our-masters-programme-earns-prestigious-award-after-years-struggle-high-school-exam - 2025-10-01

Martin Joormann defended his doctoral thesis in Sociology of Law ”Legitimized Refugees: A Critical Investigation of Legitimacy Claims within the Precedents of Swedish Asylum Law” today Friday 3rd May at 10 o'clock in Kulturen's Auditorium, Tegnérsplatsen in Lund. The external reviewer was Professor Åsa Wettergren, Göteborg University.Abstract på engelskaThis study focuses on asylum cases decided a

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/martin-joormann-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-10-01

Dan Metcalfe has written a perspective piece in Science about a recently published paper. Dr Dan Metcalfe at the department has written a perspective piece in Science about a featured paper. The paper itself looked at the effect of 26 years of continual experimental warming on soil microbial populations and carbon cycling. The authors found that over extended periods of warming the soil microbial

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/much-greater-portion-global-soil-carbon-store-could-potentially-be-vulnerable-decomposition-and - 2025-10-01