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Lund University is listed at place 38 in the ranking for law. Times Higher Education (THE) is one of the three leading international rankings of universities and higher education institutions, and is based on 13 indicators in teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The THE ranking of universities for 2024 was published at the end of September, and Lund University was rank

https://www.law.lu.se/article/excellent-placement-times-higher-educations-ranking-2024 - 2025-09-25

On 9 October, the Academic Appointments Board decided to appoint Zvezda Vankova as Associate Professor of EU Law Dr Zvezda Vankova holds a PhD in EU migration law from Maastricht University. She is the principal investigator of the project ‘Refugee protection or cherry picking? Assessing new admission policies for refugees in Europe’ (2023-2026) funded by the Swedish Research Council. The overarch

https://www.law.lu.se/article/new-associate-professor-eu-law - 2025-09-25

We hereby announce that: Jur.kand. Alexander Hardenberger for the Degree of Doctor of Laws in EU Law has written a doctoral dissertation entitled: Åberopsbörda i dispositiva tvistemål – En civilprocessuell studie i anslutning till 17 kap. 3 § andra meningen RB The doctoral dissertation is made available at the university library.   The defense will take place at Pufendorfsalen, Lilla Gråbrödersgat

https://www.law.lu.se/article/aberopsborda-i-dispositiva-tvistemal-en-civilprocessuell-studie-i-anslutning-till-17-kap-3-ss-andra - 2025-09-25

We hereby announce that:LL.M Scarlet O´Donnell for the Degree of Doctor of Laws in Public International Law has written a doctoral dissertation entitled:International Responsibility for Activities in Outer Space in the Modern Space Age - Article VI of the Outer Space Treaty in the context of international space law and public international lawThe doctoral dissertation is made available at the univ

https://www.law.lu.se/article/scarlet-odonnells-final-defense-public-international-law - 2025-09-25

LL.D. Torvald Larsson is awarded German-Nordic Lawyers Association’s (DNJV)  Research Prize 2023/24 for the doctoral thesis “Judicial Review of Administrative Decisions. Swedish, Danish and Austrian Law in a Comparative Perspective. The jury considers the thesis to be convincing in terms of both form and content and has a clear German-Nordic connection due to its comparative character. It contribu

https://www.law.lu.se/article/torvald-larsson-awarded-german-nordic-lawyers-associations-research-prize - 2025-09-25

We hereby announce that:LL.M Max Hjärtströmfor the Degree of Doctor of Laws in  private law has written a doctoral dissertation entitled:Competition Law’s Market Failure Paradox: Economic Efficiency, Consumer Welfare and Public Policy in EU Antitrust and State Aid LawThe doctoral dissertation is made available at the university library  The defense will take place at Pufendorfsalen, Lilla Gråbröde

https://www.law.lu.se/article/max-hjartstroms-final-defense-private-law - 2025-09-25

Emilia Holmberg is awarded first prize in the law class for her essay in the Swedish Competition Authority's essay competition 2023. "Ne bis In Idem in EU Competition Law. The Application of the Principle on the Relationship between Article 102 TFEU and the Digital Markets Act" is the title of the thesis.In the essay jury's motivation, they emphasize that it is a clear, well-written and well-formu

https://www.law.lu.se/article/student-lund-awarded-swedish-competition-authoritys-essay-competition-2023 - 2025-09-25

Karin Aggestam and Linda Eitrem Holmgren have co-authored the article “The Gender-Resilience Nexus in Peacebuilding: The Quest for Sustainable Peace” as part of a Special Issue on gender, resilience and conflict in the Journal of International Relations and Development. Abstract Resilience and gender have become new buzzwords for expressing renewal in peacebuilding. This article unpacks the gender

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-eitrem-holmgren-gender-resilience-nexus-peacebuilding - 2025-09-25

Johannes Lindvall and Katren Rogers have co-authored the article “The Changing Faces of the Modern State” published in Governance. The article describes the changing nature of the English and Swedish states between 1800 and 2020 from the perspective of ordinary citizens. Abstract This paper describes the changing nature of the English and Swedish states between 1800 and 2020 from the perspective o

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lindvall-and-rogers-changing-faces-modern-state - 2025-09-25

The research program Legitimacy in Global Governance (LegGov) has published three books summarising its research. Research findings concern sources of legitimacy, processes of legitimation and delegitimation, and consequences of legitimacy crises in global governance.  Contributing authors from our Department are Magdalena Bexell, Farsan Ghassim, Catia Gregoratti, Kristina Jönsson, Anders Uhlin an

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-books-legitimacy-global-governance - 2025-09-25

Hanna Bäck, Emma Renström and Royce Carroll have co-authored the article, ”Protecting the Ingroup? Authoritarianism, Immigration Attitudes, and Affective Polarization”, which is published in Frontiers in Political Science. Abstract: What makes people affectively polarized? Affective polarization is based on the idea that partisanship can be a social identity leading to polarization in the form of

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hanna-back-immigration-attitudes-and-affective-polarization - 2025-09-25

SIEPS Podcast goes on a lookout for the EU in the Swedish election campaign. But EU issues occupy a hidden place among the parties' positions. Why is that? To reflect on this, this section will be visited by Magnus Blomgren, associate professor of political science at Umeå University, and Maria Strömvik, senior lecturer in political science at Lund University. The next Swedish government will repr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/stromvik-and-blomgren-election-and-eu-issues - 2025-09-25

Between 2015 and 2020 it became significantly harder to be granted sick insurance in Sweden. Altermark and Plesner examine the lived experiences for chronically ill people of losing financial support. They show that consequences often are drastic, as people experience economic crisis. This in turn gives rise to stress and uncertainty with regards to the future that often contributes to deteriorati

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/altermark-and-plesner-how-welfare-cutbacks-condition-narratives-sickness - 2025-09-25

With Russia’s descent into imperial nostalgia, it is more important than ever to understand the separatist entities dotting the shared neighbourhood with the European Union. We need to learn whether these represent indigenous creations that support—or colonial dependencies that subvert—international principles of self-determination and noninterference. We arbitrate between these competing scripts

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/understanding-separatist-entities-russias-near-abroad - 2025-09-25

Bergman and Davitti examine the future of human rights by looking at how ‘authoritarianism’, in its multifaceted forms and manifestations, intersects with existing discourses on climate change, environmental protection, populism and ‘gender deviance’. By adopting an intersectional lens they  interrogate the emergence of the right to a healthy environment and reflect on whether it will help against

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-and-davitti-gender-climate-breakdown-and-human-rights - 2025-09-25

In a new article Annika Bergman Rosamond explores the ethics of world heritage through a cosmopolitan lens. She proposes that cosmopolitanism provides fertile ground for the study of world heritage, in particular if combined with sensitivity to distinct indigenous ethical and political claims. The empirical emphasis is placed on the world heritage site of Laponia in the North of Sweden – a locatio

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-explores-ethics-and-politics-world-heritage-new-article - 2025-09-25

Malte Breiding Hansen has authored the article “Between Warring Parties: Culture Wars Over LGBT+ Equality” for the Culture Wars in Europe and Eurasia series/research project at the Illiberalism Studies Program, Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George Washington University. The article applies the concept of heterogeneity to show that the culture wars framework i

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hansen-lgbt-culture-wars-illiberalism-studies-program-george-washington-university - 2025-09-25

The paper draws on the rich feminist scholarship, practice and activism of the 20th and 21st centuries to present some of the central feminist ideas, concepts and principles that the co-authors think should inform the idea of a feminist approach to foreign policy. It briefly considers the ideas and ambitions of the FFPs adopted to date, with a focus on Sweden as the pioneer of the concept. It argu

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bergman-rosamond-has-co-authored-scga-position-paper-scotland-and-feminist-foreign-policy - 2025-09-25

Sometimes the public sector, often by external "change agents", is described as slow-moving and difficult to change. But not wanting to embrace a new service or idea may as well be rooted in a clear-sighted professional assessment, on the part of civil servants, of the usefulness of the proposed change in public organization. Sometimes the proposed innovation is simply not very good or, for that m

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/productive-resistance-public-sector-innovation - 2025-09-25

Isabel Bramsen and Anine Hagemann has written a chapter on hybrid peace mediation in Routledge Handbook for Intercultural Mediation. The chapter is called "Hybrid peace mediation in the age of pandemics" and investigates the benefits and challenges of virtual mediation as well as how virtual and physical mediation can supplement each other, for example with virtual mediation keeping the contact be

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bramsen-and-hagemann-hybrid-peace-mediation - 2025-09-25