Isabel Schoultz and Hera Muhire in a video conference call with the researcher group. Photo: Theo Hagman-Rogowski 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, th

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociologists-law-investigating-migrant-worker-exploitation-nordics - 2025-09-13

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 facilities closed to outsiders to protect the vulnerable prison population. The Rus

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/locked-lockdown - 2025-09-13

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 international and national norms. The UN entered the convention into force in September 19

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/child-rights-and-global-health-interplay-new-course - 2025-09-13

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 range of disciplines research the contextual application and impact of shari‘a on fa

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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 within the span of a week to present at two conferences. On November 21, the Cuban-Per

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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 Department, Matthias Baier steps down to focus on the research projects "The Multil

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-head-sociology-law-department - 2025-09-13

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, lecturer at the Faculty of Law, conversed virtually with Adelle Blackett, Professor

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/decolonizing-labour-law-conversation-professor-adelle-blackett - 2025-09-13

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 VirtualLAS, a digital teaching project, involving universities in five countries, initia

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/will-travel-bans-lead-more-internationalized-classrooms - 2025-09-13

Photo: Brendel at en.wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons High income and education level, and being married are beneficial if you end up unable to pay your mortgages. In a quantitative study published in the Journal of Consumer Policy, doctoral candidate in sociology of law Mikael Lundholm found that “higher socio-economic status is positively correlated with greater potential for c

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/people-high-socio-economic-status-get-more-value-their-properties-when-faced-foreclosure - 2025-09-13

Increasing digitalisation and computerisation can lead to socio-legal governance problems and a dominating artificial intelligence. The Research Handbook on the Sociology of Law is here. Thirty-five authors have contributed to the book’s 30 chapters, covering historical, theoretical and methodological aspects of the socio-legal field. One of them is the Sociology of Law Department’s Professor Emer

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/we-need-sociology-algorithms - 2025-09-13

Associate Professor Rustam Urinboyev spent more than five years studying the experiences and life stories of Uzbek migrant workers in Moscow. In the book Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia, he reveals how migrants navigate an ever-changing migration system pervaded by corruption. From April to November, working age men are rare in the Fergana Valley in

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/imagination-and-creative-navigation-simplifies-life-central-asian-migrants-russia - 2025-09-13

Performance at a school council in Zambia, 2014. Photo: Per Wickenberg For 13 years, Sociology of Law Professor Per Wickenberg ran a training programme implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in schools and education in 16 countries around the world. The effort enrolled more than 500 people from 29 countries, who initiated hundreds of local projects to better the lives children.

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/looking-back-and-forward-furthering-rights-children - 2025-09-13

Unfamiliarity with the local language and regulations make immigrants vulnerable to over-indebtedness. The condition puts them at risk of social and financial exclusion, which negatively affects their integration in the host country. Indebtedness among European households rose considerably during the economic crisis of 2007-2008. A 2016 study by Eurofound concludes that more than half of the Greek

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/how-economic-insecurity-hinders-integration-immigrants - 2025-09-13

Peter Bergwall discussing his thesis with Professor Alan Norrie of the School of Law, The University of Warwick, whose research guided the descriptive part of Bergwall’s study. On Friday, May 7, Ph.D. student Peter Bergwall at the Sociology of Law Department successfully defended his doctoral thesis “Exploring paths of justice in the digital healthcare”. Since 2016, Peter Bergwall has studied heal

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Thomas Mathiesen (1933-2021). Photo: University of Oslo. The distinguished socio-legal scholar Thomas Mathiesen died on Saturday, May 29. He was 87 years old. Thomas Mathiesen received his doctorate from the University of Oslo in 1965 with the dissertation The Defenses of the Weak, which examined the Norwegian prison service. Three years later, he founded the Norwegian Association for Criminal Ref

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/honorary-doctor-faculty-social-sciences-has-passed-away - 2025-09-13

The photo shows an elderly man having an online video consultation with a doctor. Peter Bergwall's study shows that most young people in cities are the most common users of online healthcare services. Photo: Mostphotos. Swedish healthcare is supposed to be guided by a principle of need, treating the most urgent cases first. Political reforms in recent decades have also introduced freedom of choice

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/online-doctors-expose-deficiencies-swedish-healthcare-system - 2025-09-13

The Sociology of Law Department’s researcher Jannice Käll proposes how Nordic feminist theory and new materialist feminist theory can reach further in a call for feminist justice by considering their differences. In a recent article in Nordic Journal on Law and Society, Jannice Käll presents a concept of justice based on a fusing of Nordic feminist perspectives of law with the new materialism and

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-materialism-and-nordic-feminism-co-working-new-perspective-justice - 2025-09-13

The mandate Head of Department rarely spans more than six years. Matthias Baier held it at the Sociology of Law Department for eleven. This spring, the former prefect resumed his position as Senior Lecturer. Accompanied by his partner and two dogs in their rural home outside of Lund, Matthias Baier spent the spring semester phasing himself out of the department's top managerial position and back t

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/matthias-baier-has-stepped-down-head-department-and-back-classroom - 2025-09-13

The ecological consequences of animal agriculture present an acute challenge for how we legislate to protect cows, pigs, and other farmed animals. Research at the Sociology of Law Department suggests abandoning human-centred perspectives, thus calling for a new paradigm that recognizes the ethical significance of all animals as world-making beings. It has been estimated that about 72 billion land

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/laws-failure-protect-farmed-animals-has-dire-consequences-both-human-and-nonhuman-life - 2025-09-13

A month has passed since the start of the autumn semester. By now, the Sociology of Law Department's two guest professors, Anna Lundberg and Ole Hammerslev, are deeply embedded in the institution, where they will stay until June 2022. Anna Lundberg, who started on 1 July, is Professor of Welfare Law and Associate Professor in Human Rights at Linköping University. At the Sociology of Law Department

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/these-are-sociology-law-departments-guest-professors - 2025-09-13