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During the PhD Graduation Ceremony held in December 2023 at the University of Luxembourg, Nicole Citeroni received the Best Thesis Award 2023. During the ceremony, she briefly presented the topic of her PhD research titled “Systemic Economic Offences as a New Paradigm of International Crimes - Towards an Evolution or Revolution of International Criminal Law?”. The Thesis was also awarded a merit-b

https://www.law.lu.se/article/nicole-citeroni-wins-excellent-thesis-award-university-luxembourg-0 - 2025-11-13

In December, Alexander Hardenberger  successfully defended his dissertation with the title " Åberopsbörda i dispositiva tvistemål - En civilprocessuell studie i anslutning till 17 kap. 3 § andra meningen RB".Juris doctor Alexander Hardenberger has been awarded a grant for a position as a postdoctoral researcher from Institutet för Rättsvetenskaplig forskning for two years on the project "Haltande

https://www.law.lu.se/article/alexander-hardenberger-has-been-awarded-grant-postdoctoral-position-institutet-rattsvetenskaplig - 2025-11-13

Lennart Blecher and his family have donated SEK 15 million to the faculty to develop research on human rights in Sweden and the other Nordic countries. The funds will be used, among other things, to employ Visiting Professors. On 2023-12-21, the Vice-Chancellor has decided to employ three Visiting Professors. Their research focuses on different aspects of human rights. The Visiting Professors will

https://www.law.lu.se/article/three-new-visiting-professors-appointed-research-initiative-human-rights - 2025-11-13

During the current term of office 2024-2026, the Faculty of Law has a partly new management. The new Dean of the Faculty of Law is Professor Henrik Wenander and the new Pro Dean for Research is Professor Jessica Almqvist. Associate Professor Patrik Lindskoug continutes his second term as vice Dean for Education. Senior Lecturer Ellika Sevelin is the new Head of Department and Associate Professor L

https://www.law.lu.se/article/faculty-and-department-management-2024-2026 - 2025-11-13

Linne Wegerstad is awarded grants for the project Understanding sentencing - proportionality, conformity and sources of law in judicial decision-making. Linnea Wegerstad is awarded SEK 1,9 million for the project. This project aims to increase knowledge about sentencing in the Swedish legal system by investigating how judges decide what sentence to impose in a particular case: what factors are tak

https://www.law.lu.se/article/ragnar-soderberg-foundation-awards-grants - 2025-11-13

Professor David Lagnado has been appointed Honorary Doctor of the Faculty. The Faculty of Law has awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa for 2024 to Professor David Lagnado, University College London (UCL). Lagnado is a world-leading scholar in the field of legal evidence, and his interdisciplinary research approach combines law with decision theory and cognitive science. Lagnado investigates

https://www.law.lu.se/article/honorary-doctor-faculty-law - 2025-11-13

Marja-Liisa Öberg is coordinating (together with Rhiannon Pugh, CIRCLE and LTH) a new Advanced Study Group (ASG) at Pufendorf IAS entitled "(UN-)NATURAL BORDERS: Multi-disciplinary perspectives on the boundaries of European integration". ‘European integration’ is a social construct that exerts great impact on the natural environment while being both determined and limited by natural conditions, su

https://www.law.lu.se/article/marja-liisa-oberg-coordinating-new-pufendorf-advanced-study-group-asg - 2025-11-13

Tova Bennet has been awarded research funding of SEK 851 000 from Riksbankens jubileumsfond for the implementation of the project 'Acquitted after forensic psychiatric evaluation' (2024-2026).   The project is part of Tova's research approach on issues of responsibility and sanction for offenders with mental disorder or disabilities in the Swedish criminal justice system.Read more about Tova Benne

https://www.law.lu.se/article/tova-bennet-awarded-funding-riksbankens-jubileumsfond - 2025-11-13

The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities has decided to award its most prestigious prize, the Gad Rausing Prize for Outstanding Humanities Research, to our honorary doctor Professor Heikki Pihlajamäki (Helsinki). All prizes and medals are awarded at the Academy’s Annual Meeting on 20 March, to mark its foundation in 1753. Gad Rausings prize  | Kungl. Vitterhetsakademien

https://www.law.lu.se/article/heikki-pihlajamaki-awarded-gad-rausing-prize - 2025-11-13

What are opinions, what are facts and what are outright lies? The latest PISA assessment clearly shows that children and young adults have difficulties navigating the fast flow of information in society today. When anyone at all can make their voice heard it also becomes more difficult to recognise misleading information and fake news. Together, actors, performing arts teachers and researchers are

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-and-performers-teaching-children-question-fake-news - 2025-11-14

Nanotechnology and nanoscience offer a key to the development of materials as well as new knowledge about different material properties and limitations. Nanotechnology provides tools to make it possible to find solutions to significant societal challenges such as safe, clean and efficient energy or next generation electronics or medical technology. A close collaboration between researchers in sust

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unique-collaboration-model-sustainable-production-industry - 2025-11-14

A new study from Lund University in Sweden on how the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine affects human liver cells under experimental conditions, has been viewed more than 800,000 times in just over a week. The results have been widely discussed across social media – but the results have in many cases been misinterpreted. Two of the authors, Associate Professor Yang de Marinis (YDM) and Professor Ma

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/qa-covid-19-vaccine-study-gains-attention - 2025-11-14

Vladimir Putin is driven by the old nationalistic theory about the western world’s conspiracy against Russia states Tova Höjdestrand, senior lecturer in Social Anthropology and a researcher whose areas of interest include Russia and nationalism. According to her, Russian conservatives have driven a radical conspiracy theory since the 1800s about how the west is trying to eliminate the east and tha

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/nationalistic-conspiracy-theory-drives-putin - 2025-11-14

Any war crimes and accusations of genocide could be investigated by two different courts, both in The Hague. Jessica Almqvist, professor at the Department of Law, analyses what this involves. “There are not many who would dispute the unlawfulness of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine”, says Jessica Almqvist. Some days ago, Ukraine held Russia accountable for having violated the UN convention on genocide

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/war-criminals-held-accountable-hague - 2025-11-14

The media in Russia and Ukraine live different lives. The media in Ukraine is quite free, whereas Russia lies at the bottom of international comparisons of media freedom, says Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, senior lecturer in European Studies at the Centre for Languages and Literature and associate professor of Strategic Communication. Her research has included the study of political communication in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/media-propaganda-contributes-russians-world-view - 2025-11-14

The fighting at Chernobyl has caused an increase in radioactive radiation levels. Aleh Cherp, a professor at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), has studied energy security and Chernobyl. He thinks that the sanctions could lead to significant changes in the types of energy used in Europe. During the first days of the invasion, there was fighting close to the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/sanctions-could-lead-more-wind-and-solar-power - 2025-11-14

In many ways, Swedish industrialisation began in the home. Women spun, wove and sewed clothes for payment in between their daily agricultural tasks, food preparation and childcare. But didn’t all industrial production gradually move into the factories? ‟No, it didn’t. That is a common misconception,” says economic historian Malin Nilsson, who is researching paid home industry work. ‟That is an ove

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/womens-work-home-then-and-now - 2025-11-14

Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have studied whether severe perineal tears – known as sphincter injuries – are reduced if the primary midwife has assistance of a colleague during the final stage of labour. The study included a total of more than 4 000 first-time mothers. The results are published in The Lancet. There is currently a lack of evidence for many of the preventive methods use

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/reduction-severe-perineal-tearing-when-two-midwives-are-present-during-childbirth - 2025-11-14

An international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has managed to study the flight behaviour of the mysterious black swift. They found, among other things, that the black swift rises to extreme heights during a full moon, seemingly catching insects in the moonlight. And, during a lunar eclipse, the birds simultaneously lost altitude. The results are published in Current Biology. The b

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/black-swifts-descended-rapidly-during-lunar-eclipse - 2025-11-14

Brain cells that control the behaviour of insects, extreme gene expression in Italian sparrows and how radiotherapy alters the microenvironment in aggressive brain tumors. Three researchers at Lund University have been awarded five-year grants from the European Research Council. Stanley Heinze, a researcher at the Department of Biology, will study insect brains and their neural circuits. His proje

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/three-lund-researchers-receive-erc-consolidator-grants - 2025-11-14