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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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

2010 startade en av världens största studier av genernas betydelse vid bröstcancer i ett tätt samarbete mellan Lunds universitet och sjukvården i södra Sverige. Nu, sju år senare, har man inom forskningsprojektet, SCAN-B (Sweden Cancerome Analysis Network Breast), samlat in prover från mer än 10 000 patienter. Varje år insjuknar drygt 8000 svenska kvinnor i bröstcancer. Trots att prognosen är god,

https://www.scan-b.lu.se/artikel/prov-fran-10-000-patienter-ska-ge-battre-cancerbehandling - 2025-12-13

Methane emissions from Arctic tundra increase when sea ice melts, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. This connection has been suspected before, but has lacked strong evidence until now. “Changes in the Arctic Ocean can affect ecosystems located far away on land, ” says Dr. Frans-Jan Parmentier, the study’s lead author and researcher at the Department of Physical Geography and

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/melting-arctic-sea-ice-accelerates-methane-emissions - 2025-12-13

A method for detecting early signs of Alzheimer’s disease using amyloid PET imaging works as well as the previously used cerebrospinal fluid sample method. This is the conclusion of a new Lund University study - the most thorough and extensive undertaken in the field so far. The most commonly used tools for investigating early signs of Alzheimer’s disease in Swedish public healthcare are various c

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/increased-chances-early-detection-alzheimers-disease - 2025-12-13

Men with higher exposure to the substance DEHP, a so-called phthalate, have lower sperm motility and may therefore experience more difficulties conceiving children, according to a Lund University study. Phthalates is an umbrella term for a group of substances based on phthalic acid, some of which are suspected to be endocrine disruptors. Many phthalates are found in soft plastics in our daily surr

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lower-sperm-motility-men-exposed-common-chemical - 2025-12-13

There are currently a large number of newcomers in Sweden from countries such as Syria, Iraq and the Ukraine that hold highly interesting academic degrees. To benefit from their expertise, Lund University in cooperation with Folkuniversitetet are offering the programme Korta vägen (“The shortcut”) – a project funded by the Swedish Public Employment Service. On 8 September, some 80 academic newcome

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/shortcut-academics-international-degree - 2025-12-13