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Pleasing news that the Rune and Lena Lavin Foundation for Legal Research at the Faculty of Law in Lund, at its spring meeting on 16 April, has decided to award SEK 174,052 to a total of eight applicants. The award is part of the foundation’s ongoing support for legal research at the Faculty of Law in Lund.Information about the call for applications for autumn 2026 will be published in October 2026

https://www.law.lu.se/article/award-rune-and-lena-lavin-foundation-legal-research-1 - 2026-07-25

The new edited volume The Reasoning of the Court of Justice of the EU: A Normative Assessment by Alezini Loxa and Luigi Lonardo aims to enrich the study of the Court of Justice of the EU by providing normative—as opposed to descriptive—assessments of its legal reasoning.Taking as a starting point a descriptive account of the Court’s adjudicative practice, which informs a shared conceptual basis fr

https://www.law.lu.se/article/alezini-loxa-publishes-new-book-oup - 2026-07-25

On May 13, the Vice-Chancellor decided to appoint Valentin Jeutner as Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law. Valentin Jeutner’s research focuses on international law and legal theory, with a particular emphasis on the foundational principles and philosophical dimensions of international law, including its intersections with technology, theology, art, and history.Before coming to Lun

https://www.law.lu.se/article/valentin-jeutner-new-professor-international-law - 2026-07-25

The Delegation for Migration Studies (Delmi) presents two new policy briefs on the implementation of the EU Migration and Asylum Pact. The Pact is scheduled to be fully implemented in June 2026, marking the most comprehensive reform of the Common European Asylum System in over a decade. The reform aims to create more efficient and coordinated asylum processes, strengthen controls at the EU’s exter

https://www.law.lu.se/article/new-publications-delmi-and-sieps - 2026-07-25

The Faculty’s Research Day took place on 28 May to honour the Faculty’s honorary doctors, the Faculty’s jubilee doctor and the new PhD graduates. The day was opened by Dean Henrik Wenander. Following the opening address, the faculty’s honorary doctors, Professor Mia Korpiola of the University of Turku and Justice of the Supreme Court Stefan Reimer, were introduced, and the audience was given an in

https://www.law.lu.se/article/facultys-research-day-1 - 2026-07-25

Laurianne Allezard has been awarded research funding of SEK 1,155,000 from Sven Stenbäcks Stiftelse for the implementation of the project ”Naturens rättigheter och skoglig styrning: en jämförande och framåtblickande rättslig analys av den svenska kontexten” (“Rights of Nature and Forest Governance: A Comparative and Forward-Looking Legal Analysis of the Swedish Context.”). Read more about Lauriann

https://www.law.lu.se/article/laurianne-allezard-awarded-funding-sven-stenbacks-stiftelse - 2026-07-25

Anna Zemskova has been awarded a grant from the Centre for European Studies (CFE) to support the organisation of a seminar series at the Faculty of Law, Lund University. The funding will enable a series of seminars exploring the intersection of EU law and environmental law. The series is organised within the Lund University Centre for Environmental Law (LUCEL).The seminars will bring together scho

https://www.law.lu.se/article/anna-zemskova-awarded-cfe-grant-eu-environmental-law-seminar-series - 2026-07-25

The Syrian "refugee crisis" in Europe and the war in Ukraine have highlighted the limitations of traditional asylum systems. It has also highlighted the potential of alternative approaches, such as temporary protection instruments. A new research project, focusing on Ukrainians and Syrians, is being launched to explore the potential of different legal and safe pathways. The project, called "Refuge

https://www.law.lu.se/article/new-project-explore-alternative-pathways-refugees-enter-europe - 2026-07-25

Han Somsen has newly been appointed professor in environmental law at the Faculty of Law. He is best known for his recommendation that bird-killing cats should be kept indoors. “Humans see themselves as the kings of the hill, which extends to their cats. If you question this, many people get very angry. I got death threats,” says Han Somsen. Han Somsen’s latest position was as professor at Tilburg

https://www.law.lu.se/article/law-professor-who-wants-put-nature-above-law - 2026-07-25

How are human rights affected during an ongoing war? By invading Ukraine, Russia is not only violating international law - it is also preventing people in Ukraine from enjoying the most basic human rights, such as the right to health care, medicine and education. Lena Halldenius and Jessica Almqvist, both professors of human rights and coordinators of Lund University's new profile area Human Right

https://www.law.lu.se/article/human-rights-during-war-and-unrest - 2026-07-25

On 5 May 2025, a mock trial was held at the Faculty of Law in Lund, in a hypothetical prosecution of Stig Engström for the murder of Olof Palme. On the evening of 28 February 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot dead in central Stockholm as he was returning home from the cinema with his wife Lisbeth Palme. The killer ran into a dark alley and vanished.Thirty-four years later, in June 2

https://www.law.lu.se/article/mock-trial-against-stig-engstrom-murder-olof-palme - 2026-07-25

The board of the Einar Hansen Research Foundation has decided to appoint Professor Martin Sunnqvist as the recipient of the Einar Hansen Research Prize 2025. The board's motivation for the recipient of the Einar Hansen Research Prize 2025: "Sunnqvist is professor of legal history at the Faculty of Law at Lund University. He defended his thesis in 2014 on Constitutional Critical Judging. The Change

https://www.law.lu.se/article/recipient-einar-hansen-research-prize-2025 - 2026-07-25

The Judges Proposals Board has appointed Torvald Larsson, LL.D. and senior lecturer in public law, as a special member in cases concerning legality review at the Administrative Court in Malmö. The appointment is for the period from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2028. Legality review is a form of appeal against municipal decisions regulated in Chapter 13 of the Local Government Act (2017:725). In a

https://www.law.lu.se/article/torvald-larsson-appointed-special-member-administrative-court-malmo - 2026-07-25

Petra Holmberg, postdoc in medical law at the Faculty of Law, won the Research Grand Prix competition in Helsingborg on 7 October. In front of an audience of over 500 secondary school students, she presented her research on the risks of 80 per cent of Gen Z using chatbots to manage stress or anxiety. “It’s not surprising, AI feels simple and safe. But my research shows that it can be downright dan

https://www.law.lu.se/article/petra-holmberg-wins-forskar-grand-prix-competition - 2026-07-25

Professor Marko Milanovic is appointed as Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Chair in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from September 2025. The Faculty of Law is honoured and pleased to announce that Professor Mark Milanovic, University of Reading, has been appointed as Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Chair in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from September 2025 until August 2027, and affiliated to the Faculty

https://www.law.lu.se/article/professor-marko-milanovic-appointed-raoul-wallenberg-visiting-chair - 2026-07-25

Julia Björverud is one of this year's seven recipients of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' 2025 Dissertation Prize for outstanding dissertations. In its justification for the nomination, the Faculty of Law stated, among other things: "In her thesis, Julia Björverud examined how the Swedish principle of public access to official records has been handled by legislators during the period 1809–1

https://www.law.lu.se/article/julia-bjorverud-awarded-royal-swedish-academy-sciences-dissertation-prize - 2026-07-25

The Swedish government has appointed Vilhelm Persson, professor of public law at the faculty, as a member of the board of the Swedish Institute for Human Rights. He succeeds another of the faculty's professors, Titti Mattsson, whose term as a board member expires at the end of the year. The Swedish Institute for Human Rights is an independent government agency tasked with protecting and promoting

https://www.law.lu.se/article/vilhelm-persson-appointed-new-board-member-swedish-institute-human-rights - 2026-07-25

Marie Jacobsson, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law in Lund, has been awarded a Doctor of Science in Maritime Affairs honoris causa in recognition of outstanding services to the international maritime community at the World Maritime University (WMU) in Malmö. Until her retirement in 2023, Marie Jacobsson was an ambassador and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs' Legal Adviser on International

https://www.law.lu.se/article/honorary-doctorate-world-maritime-university - 2026-07-25

LL.M. Max Bodin, who graduated from the law program at Lund University in the spring term of 2025, has been awarded the YAS (Young Arbitrators Sweden) prize for the best thesis in arbitration law in Sweden. The title of the thesis is: The Jurisdiction of Arbitral Tribunals to Examine Set-Off Claims in International Arbitration. The prize amount is SEK 15,000 and was presented during a ceremony in

https://www.law.lu.se/article/lund-university-student-max-bodin-receives-award-his-thesis-arbitration-law - 2026-07-25

Mariya Senyk has been awarded funding for the project “From the Court of Justice to the General Court: Can legitimacy be preserved?”. The project aims to analyse the General Court’s judgments during the first four years after part of the responsibility for preliminary rulings was transferred from the Court of Justice to the General Court. The focus is on cases concerning value-added tax and excise

https://www.law.lu.se/article/torsten-soderberg-foundation-awards-grant-eu-law-project - 2026-07-25