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The project group for the Science Village establishment is working on finalising the evaluation report for Stage 2 of the premises programme presented last year. The report has been produced in close co-operation with White Arkitekter, with contributions from Akademiska Hus, and is an important part of the planning process for the establishment.The report compares the premises programme for the es
The Vice-Chancellor has appointed Professor Titti Mattsson as the new holder of the Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Foundation Professorship in Memory of Samuel Pufendorf for the period 2025-2028. The professorship is appointed for four years by the Vice-Chancellor to a professor at Lund University in the subjects of economics, political philosophy and law in the spirit of Pufendorf. Titti Mattsson i
https://www.law.lu.se/article/titti-mattsson-named-pufendorf-endowed-chair - 2025-12-27
With the Research Data Office, the University is working to improve support for researchers in the management of research data. Each faculty now has a data steward to assist researchers in their work with research data.The new Research Data Office will better support researchers in managing their research data according to legal requirements and security standards. This is achieved through technic
https://www.law.lu.se/article/elin-thunell-and-jon-eriksen-are-faculty-laws-data-stewards - 2025-12-27
Martin Sunnqvist, professor of legal history at the faculty, has been appointed by Svante Lindqvist, chancellor of the Royal Orders of Knighthood, to be the historiographer of the orders from 1 October 2024. As historiographer, he assists the Royal Orders of Knighthood with legal and historical expertise. The Royal Orders of Knighthood is the organization that manages the orders of chivalry: The R
https://www.law.lu.se/article/new-historiographer-royal-orders-knighthood-0 - 2025-12-27
Lena Wahlberg, Associate Professor of Jurisprudence at the Faculty of Law, has been appointed as an expert in the Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics (Smer). The appointment is valid from 1 January 2025, until further notice, but not beyond January 31, 2028. The Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics is a body appointed by the Swedish government to deal with medical ethical issues from
https://www.law.lu.se/article/new-expert-swedish-national-council-medical-ethics - 2025-12-27
Hannes Hultman is awarded first prize in the law class for his essay in the degree Swedish Competition Authority's essay competition 2024. The title of the essay is “Processramen i upphandlingsmål – En analys av domstolens hantering av invändningar om kravbrister”.The prize money is SEK 20,000 and was awarded during a ceremony in Stockholm on December 10. The supervisor for Hannes' thesis has been
https://www.law.lu.se/article/student-lund-awarded-swedish-competition-authoritys-essay-competition-2024 - 2025-12-27
Ulf Linderfalk has in a highly competetive field been awarded a research grant of 1 million euros by the Spanish government. The grant is part of the framework of a special investment ("Programa ATRAE"). The program aims to "ensure academic excellence and the presence of cutting-edge research" in Spain. It gives Spanish universities and research institutions the opportunity to incorporate "consoli
https://www.law.lu.se/article/ulf-linderfalk-awarded-funding-spanish-government - 2025-12-27
On 12 December 2024, Nicole Citeroni was awarded the Pescatore Prize 2023 by the Doctoral School of Law of the University of Luxembourg. The Pescatore Prize is named in honour of Luxembourg legal scholar and judge at the European Court of Justice, Pierre Pescatore. It is awarded once per year to one Doctoral School of Law graduate for the best doctoral thesis. Nicole’s doctoral thesis examines the
https://www.law.lu.se/article/nicole-citeroni-awarded-pescatore-prize-2023 - 2025-12-27
Alberto Rinaldi's Ghosts of International Law is published by Cambridge University Press.The book is available at CUP.Read more about Alberto's research at the Research Portal.
https://www.law.lu.se/article/alberto-rinaldi-publishes-ghosts-international-law - 2025-12-27
The School of Law, University of Nottingham, has awarded Sara Arapiles the DJ Harris Prize (Best PhD Thesis) for her doctoral thesis entitled ‘Slavery in Refugee Status Determination Procedures in Europe: A Comparative Socio-Legal Study of Approaches to Eritrean Protection Claims`.More about the prize: The School of Law, University of Nottingham
https://www.law.lu.se/article/sara-arapiles-receives-prize-thesis-0 - 2025-12-27
Lund University is listed at place 36 in the world-ranking for law. Times Higher Education (THE) is one of the three leading international rankings of universities and higher education institutions, and it is based on 18 indicators in teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The THE ranking of universities for 2025 was published in October last year, and Lund University wa
https://www.law.lu.se/article/excellent-placement-law-lund-university-times-higher-educations-world-ranking-2025 - 2025-12-27
Professors Marta Pertegás Sender and Jeremias Adams-Prassl have been awarded honorary doctorates by the Faculty. Marta Pertegás SenderProfessor Marta Pertegás Sender, Maastricht University, started her career in academia as a doctoral student in Leuven and obtained her PhD in 2000 with a thesis on cross-border patent infringement. As a recent PhD graduate, Marta worked as a teacher and researcher
https://www.law.lu.se/article/honorary-doctorates-2025 - 2025-12-27
Professor Martin Sunnqvist explains how the changes in the Danish royal coat of arms puts an end to an old Swedish-Danish conflict. Denmark's King Frederik X recently announced a change to the royal coat of arms. This put an end to a 17th century Swedish-Danish conflict, according to Martin Sunnqvist, who writes about the controversial event in the news platform The Conversation. Read the article
https://www.law.lu.se/article/denmarks-new-royal-coat-arms-marks-end-400-year-old-long-conflict - 2025-12-27
The Faculty of Law announces a vacancy for a doctoral position in private, private international, or procedural law. The application period is between February 5 and March 19.The field of private law consists of legal norms that regulate relations between private legal entities, as well as legal relations between public and private legal entities based on voluntary legal acts. It includes, in part
https://www.law.lu.se/article/call-application-doctoral-position - 2025-12-27
Purpose: to promote legal research at the Faculty of Law in Lund. Through its activities, the Foundation will support, encourage and facilitate research at the faculty. Anyone actively conducting research at the Faculty of Law in Lund is eligible to apply for a grant. Grants will be awarded primarily for costs directly incurred while conducting or reporting on a research project. This includes suc
https://www.law.lu.se/article/rune-and-lena-lavin-foundation-legal-research-faculty-law-lund-1 - 2025-12-27
The Government has appointed Erik Sjöman, LL.D. h.c., as a Justice of the Supreme Court. Erik Sjöman, who holds a Master of Laws degree from our faculty, was awarded an honorary doctorate at the Faculty of Law in 2023. In the motivation for the honorary doctorate, the faculty paid particular attention to his contribution to the discussion of legal science in articles and book projects, in many cas
https://www.law.lu.se/article/erik-sjoman-honorary-doctor-law-appointed-justice-supreme-court - 2025-12-27
The Lund University Centre for Business Law (ACLU) has been awarded funding of SEK 6 million for its activities during the years 2025-2029. The three Lund-based foundations Crafoordska stiftelsen, LMK-stiftelsen and Sparbanksstiftelsen Finn have jointly chosen to support ACLU's activities during these five years. ACLU was founded in 2016 with the aim both to assemble and to strengthen the necessar
https://www.law.lu.se/article/aclu-awarded-funding-its-2025-2029-operations - 2025-12-27
From the early 19th century, various committees worked on reforms of Swedish civil law, criminal law, and procedural law. In order to find possible solutions to legal problems, these committees acquired a large amount of Swedish and foreign legal literature. The literature collection, which from 1902 formally belonged to the so-called Lagberedningen (Law Commission), thus constitutes, with its app
https://www.law.lu.se/article/sek-700-000-faculty-law-legal-historical-treasure-worth-preserving - 2025-12-27
The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanity and Society (WASP-HS) och SciLifeLab, Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS), has recently granted funds of 3 967 000 SEK to the project "Explainable and Just AI in Data-Driven Disease Surveillance".Atiye Sadat Hashemi and Yana Litins'ka are leading the project which constitutes an interdisciplinary coll
https://www.law.lu.se/article/yana-litinska-awarded-funding-interdisciplinary-project - 2025-12-27
The final of the European Law Moot Court Competition (ELMC), one of the most prestigious moot court competitions in the world (around 80 universities participating), was held at the Court of Justice of the EU in Luxembourg last week. Two teams of Lund University were competing in this truly historical moment (it was indeed the first time ever that two teams of the same University were competing ag
https://www.law.lu.se/article/great-success-moot-court-competition - 2025-12-27
