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

https://www.law.lu.se/article/student-lund-wins-first-prize-her-essay-swedish-crime-victims-authority - 2025-07-29

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

https://www.law.lu.se/article/project-funded-vinnova - 2025-07-29

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

https://www.law.lu.se/article/student-lund-wins-prize-her-degree-project-family-law - 2025-07-29

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

https://www.law.lu.se/article/titti-mattsson-named-pufendorf-endowed-chair - 2025-07-29

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

https://www.law.lu.se/article/elin-thunell-and-jon-eriksen-are-faculty-laws-data-stewards - 2025-07-29

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

https://www.law.lu.se/article/new-historiographer-royal-orders-knighthood-0 - 2025-07-29

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

https://www.law.lu.se/article/new-expert-swedish-national-council-medical-ethics - 2025-07-29

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

https://www.law.lu.se/article/student-lund-awarded-swedish-competition-authoritys-essay-competition-2024 - 2025-07-29

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

https://www.law.lu.se/article/ulf-linderfalk-awarded-funding-spanish-government - 2025-07-29

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

https://www.law.lu.se/article/nicole-citeroni-awarded-pescatore-prize-2023 - 2025-07-29

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. 

https://www.law.lu.se/article/alberto-rinaldi-publishes-ghosts-international-law - 2025-07-29

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

https://www.law.lu.se/article/sara-arapiles-receives-prize-thesis-0 - 2025-07-29

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

https://www.law.lu.se/article/excellent-placement-law-lund-university-times-higher-educations-world-ranking-2025 - 2025-07-29

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

https://www.law.lu.se/article/honorary-doctorates-2025 - 2025-07-29

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

https://www.law.lu.se/article/denmarks-new-royal-coat-arms-marks-end-400-year-old-long-conflict - 2025-07-29

Published 26 February 2025 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

https://www.law.lu.se/article/call-application-doctoral-position - 2025-07-29

Published 5 March 2025 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 pro

https://www.law.lu.se/article/rune-and-lena-lavin-foundation-legal-research-faculty-law-lund-1 - 2025-07-29

Published 7 March 2024 Per Samuelsson, professor emeritus, and Marcus Utterström, associate senior lecturer, have published the book Entreprenadrätten (Norstedts Juridik 2024).The book is available at Norstedts Juridik.Per Samuelsson's research in the university's research portal.Marcus Utterström's research in the university's research portal.

https://www.law.lu.se/article/samuelsson-and-marcus-utterstrom-have-published-book-entreprenadratten - 2025-07-29

Published 8 March 2024 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 pro

https://www.law.lu.se/article/rune-and-lena-lavin-foundation-legal-research-faculty-law-lund-0 - 2025-07-29

Published 11 March 2024 Markus Gunneflo, the new coordinator of the Agenda 2030 Graduate School. Photo: Kennet Rouna Late last year, Markus Gunneflo was appointed by the vice-chancellor to lead the Lund University Agenda 2030 graduate school. Markus has always felt at home in interdisciplinary environments, and working with PhD students has been the most enjoyable part of his professional life. A

https://www.law.lu.se/article/markus-gunneflo-appointed-new-coordinator-graduate-school-critical-societal-challenges - 2025-07-29