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Treasure hunt, clouds, food and much more. The department opened its doors during the cultural night in Lund on September 21, 2019. During "Kulturnatten", a yearly cultural event taking place in Lund, our department opened its doors, inviting the public to take part in a varity of activites. The aim was to show some of the themes that the department works with, including the carbon portal and ICOS

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/open-house-during-lund-kulturnatten - 2025-10-21

Several coworkers have been interviewed in different media outlets because of their expertise. Markku Rummukainen, professor at CEC and the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, was interviewed in several media channels about the latest report from the UN’s climate panel, IPCC. “The report provides a focused examination of climate change and its impact on oceans, sea ice, glacier

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/coworkers-featured-media - 2025-10-21

The local news media "Lokaltidningen" reported about a new library on Svalbard which is now hosting Jonas Åkerman's collection of books, satellite images and maps. The local newspaper reports on the opening of a library in a former radio station on Svalbard.Read the full article here (Google translated)"Jonas Åkerman has done research on permafrost and climate change for 46 years. [...] His observ

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/new-library-offers-jonas-akermans-literature - 2025-10-21

For generations, Indigenous and riverine communities in the Amazon have relied on deep ecological knowledge to live in harmony with the rainforest. But, as climate disasters reshape the woodlands, local expertise is often overlooked in environmental policies and scientific studies. A new research project aims to change that. In 2023 and 2024, the Amazon faced severe droughts. Rivers dried up, cutt

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-project-aims-bridge-climate-policy-and-indigenous-knowledge-amazon - 2025-10-21

Exploring issues of methodology from a doctrinal as well as from an interdisciplinary perspective this new book by Reza Banakar also maps the development of law and socio-legal research from industrialisation to globalisation and searches for forms of regulation which can effectively meet the challenges of contemporary global/network society Normativity in Legal SociologyThe field of socio-legal r

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-book-methodological-reflections-law-and-regulation-late-modernity - 2025-10-21

The past 12 years they have been educating educationalists worldwide on children's rights through the training programme "Child Rights, Classroom and School Management", sponsored by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA). Per Wickenberg, director of studies at the Sociology of Law Department, Lund University, recently came back from Kozhikode in India where he and his team were on a

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/teachers-should-respect-students-listen-them - 2025-10-21

Professor Reza Banakar’s book Normativity in Legal Sociology. Methodological Reflections on Law and Regulation in Late Modernity has recently been released. It studies of the role of normativity in socio-legal research also looking at the challenges posed to modern law by the socio-cultural implications of globalisation.The book explores issues of methodology from a doctrinal as well as an interdi

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/banakars-new-book-normativity-socio-legal-research - 2025-10-21

The self-regulation of rickshaw drivers in Bogota, Colombia was the topic of the talk when Ana Maria Vargas Falla presented a chapter of her coming dissertation at the annual meeting of The Law & Society Association in Seattle, May 28-31, 2015. The conference theme was Law’s Promise and Law’s Pathos in the Global North and Global South.Ana Maria Vargas Falla reports back that there were: "Great di

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/vargas-falla-talked-about-coming-theses-seattle - 2025-10-21

Due to an anonymous threat made toward the university and its students via the app Jodel, which the police regards very seriously, the university will be closed on Monday for all students and staff at all campuses. More information will be posted on the university websites www.lu.se and www.lunduniversity.lu.se during the day. If you have any questions you can call +46 46-222 07 00 from 8 am Monda

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/lund-university-closed-monday-12-october - 2025-10-21

Isabel Schoultz at the Sociology of Law Department has together with Janne Flyghed at the Department of Criminology at Stockholm University been granted 3.9 million SEK from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) for the project Business as usual. Corporate defense strategies against accusations of crime. The project aims to study what strategies companies apply when defending themselves against accusatio

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/39-million-rj-business-usual - 2025-10-21

Hate crimes are a part of the daily lives of many Roma and remarkably often children are the victims. At the same time reports of these crimes are very low as well as solving rates. This is now shown in two reports on hate crime that the Swedish Commission against antiziganism (Kommissionen mot antiziganism) has ordered.Today, Friday 23rd October, hate crimes and which measures should be taken aga

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/why-hate-crimes-antiziganistic-motives-seldom-are-solved - 2025-10-21

The new book by Reza Banakar, Driving Culture in Iran: Law and Society on the Roads of the Islamic Republic, argues that Iranians’ driving behaviour is an indicator of how they have historically related to each other and to their society at large, and how they have maintained a form of social order through law, culture and religion. Published by I.B.Tauris (London and New York)Iran has one of the

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/banakar-explores-dangerous-driving-habits-iran - 2025-10-21

Our researcher Matthias Baier is on of the members in the project “The Annual Report - Words, images, numbers” which has been granted money from Pufendorf Institute. ”The aim of this project is to explore and unfold this multifaceted nature of annual reports”.Learn more on Pufendorf Institute’s websiteMatthias Baier’s personal page 

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/money-pufendorf-institute-research-project - 2025-10-21

Ana Maria Vargas Falla defended her dissertation "Outside the Law: An Ethnographic Study of Street Vendors in Bogotá" on June 8 at 13:15. External reviewer: Associate Professor Johan Gärde, Ersta Sköndal högskola.Ana Maria Vargas Falla’s personal page 

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/ana-maria-vargas-falla-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-10-21

Eva Schömer has authored the article "Sweden, a Society of Covert Racism: Equal from the Outside: Everyday Racism and Ethnic Discrimination in Swedish Society” in Oñati Socio-legal Series. Abstract:    Sweden is widely considered to have one of the most equal and gender-equal societies in the world. But the Swedish society is also one in which the Labour Court can find discrimination when a 60-yea

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/schomer-covert-racism - 2025-10-21

Hildur Fjóla Antonsdóttir co-wrote an article with Halla Gunnarsdóttir, who is the head of policy and partnerships for the newly founded “Women’s Equality party” in UK. In the article they discuss if and how the Nordic countries have something to offer UK in terms of the quest for justice for victim-survivors of sexual violence. This piece was written in relation to a high profile rape case in UK

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/antonsdottir-justice-victim-survivors-sexual-violence - 2025-10-21

Matthias Baier, Isabel Schoultz and Rustamjon Urinboyev were on an Erasmus-exchange in Uzbekistan on October 17-22. They visited ”University of World Economy and Diplomacy” in Tashkent. During their stay they held lectures on sociology of law for both students and teachers. Matthias Baier’s personal pageIsabel Schoultz’s personal pageRustamjon Urinboyev’s personal page 

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/erasmus-exchange-uzbekistan - 2025-10-21

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 - 2025-10-21

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 - 2025-10-21

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 - 2025-10-21