Published 18 September 2024 Alezini Loxa The European Group of Public Law (EGPL), the European Scientific Council of the European Public Law Organization (EPLO) has awarded Alezini Loxa the 2024 Thesis Prize for her doctoral thesis entitled “Sustainability and EU Migration Law: What Place for Migrant’s Rights?”.Since September 1994, the European Group of Public Law (EGPL), the European Scientific

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Published 27 September 2024 Photo: Alex Vasey/Unsplash. Martin Sunnqvist is coordinator for a new Pufendorf Advanced Study Group (ASG) at the Pufendorf Institute with the title Oaths and Courts – from Forum to the Future. This Advanced Study Group centres around the two keywords “Oaths” and “Courts”, and particularly the interaction between them. The independence and impartiality of judges, and th

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Published 15 October 2024 Anders Alenskär with prize winners Sara Pedersen, Sara Strömstedt, Andreea Corbei and Serife Erdal. Jur. kand. Sara Pedersen is honoured for her essay is about involuntariness assessment in rape offences when the victim has a mental disability. Motivation: In her essay, the first prize winner has wanted to investigate what the legislative requirements regarding voluntarin

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Published 18 October 2024 Lina Lanterno, Birgitta Persson (FuturebyLund), Aurelija Lukoseviciene, Ana Nordberg (Faculty of Law), Marcus Lampe (FuturebyLund), Jesper Larsson (Faculty of Fine arts). Photo: Patrik Lindskoug. Ana Nordberg and Aurelija Lukoseviciene, in cooperation with the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts at Lund University, in partnership with Future by Lund, have been awarded 1 m

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Published 18 October 2024 Jur. Kand. Caroline Lindau, former student from the law program at the Faculty of law in Lund, received a scholarship from the law firm “Familjens jurist” on September 12 for her thesis on family law. Thesis title: Automatisk vårdnadsöverflyttning vid dödligt våld inom familjen och dess förenlighet med artikel 8 i Europakonventionen.(Automatic transfer of custody in cases

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Published 6 November 2024 Titti Mattson professor of public law. 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, politica

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Published 4 December 2024 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 i

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Published 10 December 2024 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 th

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Published 10 December 2024 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 m

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Published 12 December 2024 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

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Published 13 December 2024 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 opportun

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Published 17 December 2024 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 d

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Published 7 January 2025 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. 

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Published 16 January 2025 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

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Published 24 January 2025 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 ye

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Published 29 January 2025 Professors Marta Pertegás Sender and Jeremias Adams-Prassl have been awarded honorary doctorates by the Faculty. Professor Marta Pertegás Sender. Image Alba Dewit Pertegás 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 pat

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Published 4 February 2025 The new Danish royal coat of arms. Artist: Ronny Skov Andersen. 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 wri

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Published 30 April 2019 SASNET affiliated researcher Therese Boje Mortensen recently published two articles in Sydasien magazine on the outsourcing of Indian government schemes to local NGOs and PM Modi's supporters in the ongoing elections. Government schemes in India reach far – but government jobs do notThe Indian state outsources a range of permanent social programmes to local NGOs. The argume

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Published 3 May 2019 Oxford graduate Thakkar arrived in Lund for a month-long fellowship with SASNET. Chirayu Thakkar graduated recently from the Modern South Asian Studies program from the University of Oxford. He is currently a graduate student in political science at the Central European University, Hungary. His primary interests are India’s domestic politics and its interaction with the foreig

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Published 22 May 2019 Vibodh Parthasarathi and Andreas Mattsson participated in a panel talk at the Press Club in Brussels on May 13. The panel talk was moderated by Jean-Luc Racine. SASNET affiliated researchers Vibodh Parthasarathi and Andreas Mattsson recently participated in two seminars in Belgium on media challenges in the Indian and European elections. Vibodh Parthasarathi and Andreas Matts

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