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Professor Timur Dadabaev is conducting a 12-month research stay at the Sociology of Law Department. The visiting professorship marks the launch of a long-term effort to establish a Transregional Decolonial Studies Hub at Lund University. Timur Dadabaev is a Professor of International Relations, the founding Director of the Special Program for Japanese and Eurasian Studies at the University of Tsuk

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/timur-dadabaev-joins-department-visiting-professor - 2026-07-07

The EU has awarded Rustamjon Urinboyev €4.73 million to lead a new doctoral network on law, religion, and governance in post-imperial Muslim-majority societies. Eleven European universities will recruit 15 PhD students for the programme. Four of these will be based at the Sociology of Law Department. The grant will fund the new doctoral network MINARET. The researchers will study how constitutiona

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/major-eu-grant-lund-led-phd-programme-islamic-legal-cultures - 2026-07-07

Timur Dadabaev has studied how Central Asian states exercise agency in ways that international relations studies often misconstrue, most notably through silent communication. In a new book, the Sociology of Law Department's Guest Professor Timur Dadabaev, and the University of Tokyo’s specially appointed professor Shigeto Sonoda, explore how silence, ambiguity, omission, and non-verbal practices f

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-book-explores-silence-strategy-international-relations - 2026-07-07

On Friday, May 22, Carlo Nicoli Aldini defended his doctoral thesis in sociology of law. The examining committee unanimously passed the dissertation. "It is an unusually good read," said the external reviewer, Professor Siri Gloppen of the University of Bergen, about Nicoli Aldini’s dissertation Legal and Lethal: Lawfare and Legal Mobilization in the Conflict over the Steel Plant of Taranto, Italy

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sucessful-thesis-defence-gives-lund-its-64th-doctor-sociology-law - 2026-07-07

This research focuses on the assessment process in queer asylum claims in Greece. The defence took place at the Faculty of Social Science's campus in Lund on Monday, May 25. Sophia Zisakou has studied what makes queerness credible or incredible in the Greek asylum system. To be granted asylum, queer asylum seekers must prove to migration authorities that they are queer or risk deportation. Zisakou

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sophia-zisakou-defends-her-thesis-become-doctor-sociology-law - 2026-07-07

A new book examines emerging patterns of migration from Central Asia to underrepresented destinations worldwide and challenges the established wisdom on migration to and from the region. The conventional understanding of Central Asian migration focuses on labour mobility toward Russia. The anthology "Bridges Across Borders: Dynamics of Central Eurasian Migration to Australia, Japan, and Northern E

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/central-eurasian-migration-beyond-traditional-routes - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 contemporar

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-book-methodological-reflections-law-and-regulation-late-modernity - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 Univer

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/teachers-should-respect-students-listen-them - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 globalisati

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/banakars-new-book-normativity-socio-legal-research - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 Nort

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/vargas-falla-talked-about-coming-theses-seattle - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/lund-university-closed-monday-12-october - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/39-million-rj-business-usual - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 order

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/why-hate-crimes-antiziganistic-motives-seldom-are-solved - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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, cultur

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/banakar-explores-dangerous-driving-habits-iran - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/money-pufendorf-institute-research-project - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 - 2026-07-07

In the light of the ongoing invasion in Ukraine, Lund University wants to show our support for students and employees that may be affected. To our current knowledge, no Lund University students or staff members are in Ukraine at the moment. However, we recognise that these are stressful and upsetting times for many and we want to remind those of you who are directly affected by the situation about

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/regarding-situation-ukraine - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We have launched a new website! Have a look around, and please let us know what you think. The School of Social Work has launched a new website, in both a Swedish and English version. Please complete our mini survey and let us know what you think! If you have any  other questions or comments, please contact the depart

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/new-website - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.  Håkan Jönson and Tove Harnett, researchers at The School of Social Work, and Annika Taghizadeh Larsson (Linköping University) and Stina Johansson (Umeå University) have received 3.1 million from the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forte) for the project "Would a disability model mean be

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/sek-3-million-research-ageing - 2026-07-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund University's Vice-Chancellor Per Eriksson will be stepping down at the end of the year. There will be a farewell reception today, 12 December.As leaving gifts, Per Eriksson has asked for donations to help eradicate homelessness in Sweden, including to the School of Social Work's Housing First project.Read more ab

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/vice-chancellor-asks-donations-eradicate-homelessness - 2026-07-07