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The Academic Appointments Board decided on 30 January 2026 to appoint Mariya Senyk as Associate Professor of Fiscal Law. Mariya Senyk holds a doctoral degree in Business Law from Lund University (2018). Her doctoral thesis examines the principles governing the allocation of value added tax (VAT) in cross-border situations, analysed within the legal frameworks of the WTO, the OECD and the EU.From 2

https://www.law.lu.se/article/new-associate-professor-fiscal-law - 2026-10-03

Postdoctoral researcher Laurianne Allezard has signed a publication contract with Edward Elgar Publishing for the book The Anatomy of Identity in Constitutional Law: A New Analytical Concept for Europe and Beyond? The book is scheduled to be published in 2027.

https://www.law.lu.se/article/laurianne-allezard-signs-publication-contract-edward-elgar - 2026-10-03

There has been a record-breaking number of applicants for Lund University’s international recruitment drive. The original total of 25 advertised positions has been increased to 45 – researchers from some of the world’s leading universities who are now heading to Lund. As part of Lund University’s global excellence initiative, the Faculty of Law has hired an assistant professor and three visiting p

https://www.law.lu.se/article/unprecedented-interest-international-recruitment-faculty-law-welcomes-four-leading-researchers - 2026-10-03

On February 12, the Vice-Chancellor has decided to appoint Niklas Arvidsson a Professor in Private Law at the Faculty of Law. Niklas Arvidsson's research focuses on commercial law and the law of associations with a particular emphasis on contract law and company law. He has previously worked at Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM), five years as a professor of Business Law, a

https://www.law.lu.se/article/niklas-arvidsson-new-professor-private-law-skandinaviska-enskilda-bankens-professorship - 2026-10-03

The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities has elected two new working members. One of them is Mia Rönnmar, Professor of Private Law at the Faculty of Law (currently on leave) and Vice-Chancellor of Malmö University. She has been elected to the Philosophical Philological Class. Mia Rönnmar conducts research on labour law and industrial relations from a Swedish, comparative and i

https://www.law.lu.se/article/mia-ronnmar-elected-new-member-royal-swedish-academy-letters-history-and-antiquities - 2026-10-03

The Academic Appointments Board decided on 23 February 2026 to appoint Richard Croneberg as Associate Professor of Fiscal Law. Richard Croneberg holds a doctorate in law from the Faculty of Law at Lund University, where he currently works as Associate Senior Lecturer. His primary research focuses on the design of income tax rules, the ways in which such rules may be circumvented, and how judges, d

https://www.law.lu.se/article/new-associate-professor-fiscal-law-0 - 2026-10-03

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond has awarded Alezini Loxa just over SEK 4.4 million for the project Revisiting the Normative Foundations of EU Migration Law. Alezini Loxa is one of five researchers selected for this year’s RJ Pro Futura program, carried out in collaboration with the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS).About the projectEU law is structured around a fundamental distinction between

https://www.law.lu.se/article/alezini-loxa-awarded-funding-riksbankens-jubileumsfond-and-becomes-pro-futura-scientia-fellow - 2026-10-03

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 - 2026-10-03

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 - 2026-10-03

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 - 2026-10-03

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 - 2026-10-03

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 - 2026-10-03

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 - 2026-10-03

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 - 2026-10-03

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 - 2026-10-03

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 - 2026-10-03

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 - 2026-10-03

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 - 2026-10-03

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 - 2026-10-03

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 - 2026-10-03