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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 - 2026-05-15

Positive news that the Rune and Lena Lavin Foundation for Legal Research at the Faculty of Law in Lund, at its autumn meeting, has decided to award SEK 176,500 to a total of seven applicants. Information about the spring 2026 call for applications will be published in March 2026.For the mandate period 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2028, the board consists of the following members:Associate Senior

https://www.law.lu.se/article/award-rune-and-lena-lavin-foundation-legal-research-0 - 2026-05-15

The fundraising campaign for establishing the world’s first Museum of International Law at the Faculty of Law has reached a major milestone. Thanks to a significant donation of SEK 143,000 from Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet i Lund (the Royal Society of the Humanities in Lund), as well as generous contributions from Mannheimer Swartling, Engström & Co., and the Human Rights Profile Area

https://www.law.lu.se/article/fundraising-milestone-reached-worlds-first-museum-international-law - 2026-05-15

The European Commission has, thankfully, approved funding of approximately 10 million SEK (892,000 EUR) for the research project FAMIMOVE (3.0). The project builds on the experiences of previous initiatives and focuses on examining the international family law regulations that become relevant when families move within the EU or to the EU from other countries, with a particular emphasis on the vuln

https://www.law.lu.se/article/research-grant-eu-project-famimove-30 - 2026-05-15

Dalila Osmanovic and Filippa Dyrefors share the first prize for their essays on the theme of competition and public procurement in the Swedish Competition Authority’s essay contest. Title of Filippa Dyrefors’ essay: The Legality of Self-Preferencing under Article 102 TFEU.Jury’s motivation: “The author addresses a subject that is marked by legal and academic uncertainty in an analytical manner. Th

https://www.law.lu.se/article/winners-swedish-competition-authoritys-essay-contest - 2026-05-15

On December 4, the Vice-Chancellor has decided to appoint Patrik Lindskoug as a Professor in Private Law at the Faculty of Law. Patrik Lindskoug's research focuses on national and international private law, with a particular emphasis on property rights and insolvency law, primarily from a Nordic perspective, but he also has a general interest in private international law and comparative law. Patri

https://www.law.lu.se/article/patrik-lindskoug-new-professor-private-law - 2026-05-15

Benjamin Petersson is one of the winners of the Swedish Parliament’s 2025 essay competition for the thesis: "Freedom in Obedience – On the Scope and Limits of Government Control over Public Authorities". The essays were evaluated by a prize committee that included the Speaker and the Deputy Speakers, and the winners were then appointed by the Secretary-General of the Parliament.From the prize comm

https://www.law.lu.se/article/winner-swedish-parliaments-essay-competition-2025 - 2026-05-15

Erik Grimhusen has been awarded a scholarship of SEK 20,000 from the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise for the best thesis on taxation in 2025. For the same thesis, Erik also received a scholarship of SEK 15,000 from the Institute for Tax and Legal Certainty. The title of the thesis is “Targeted Interest Deduction Limitations – The Proposal for New Rules in SOU 2024:37 in Light of X BV”. Accordi

https://www.law.lu.se/article/scholarship-recipient-twice-thesis-tax-law - 2026-05-15

The Vice-Chancellor has decided to appoint Katia Cejie as Visiting Professor at 20% for two years, 2026–2027. The appointment is part of Lund University’s special initiative to recruit visiting professors of underrepresented gender, aimed at providing role models for staff and students by participating in the current research environment, teaching at various levels, and contributing to the faculty

https://www.law.lu.se/article/new-visiting-professor-part-universitys-special-initiative-underrepresented-gender - 2026-05-15

Researchers at the Faculty of Law published two articles on The Conversation in 2025, reaching 52,000 readers. Martin Sunnqvist’s article on Denmark’s new coat of arms was particularly well-received with nearly 30,000 reads. Lund University had a record year on The Conversation in 2025. The university’s researchers published 76 articles that together reached 1.1 million reads. In total, all of the

https://www.law.lu.se/article/denmarks-coat-arms-and-cognitive-warfare-52000-readers-reached-conversation - 2026-05-15

Professor Mia Korpiola and justice of the Supreme Court Stefan Reimer have been awarded honorary doctorates by the Faculty. Mia KorpiolaMia Korpiola is a professor of legal history at the Faculty of Law, University of Turku (Finland) since 2014. She is a legal historian with an exceptionally broad range of expertise and has devoted herself to fields that have not previously been highlighted in res

https://www.law.lu.se/article/honorary-doctorates-2026 - 2026-05-15

The Academic Appointments Board decided on 30 January 2026 to appoint Mariya Senyk as Associate Professor of Fiscal Law. Mariya Senyk holds a doctoral degree in Business Law from Lund University (2018). Her doctoral thesis examines the principles governing the allocation of value added tax (VAT) in cross-border situations, analysed within the legal frameworks of the WTO, the OECD and the EU.From 2

https://www.law.lu.se/article/new-associate-professor-fiscal-law - 2026-05-15

Postdoctoral researcher Laurianne Allezard has signed a publication contract with Edward Elgar Publishing for the book The Anatomy of Identity in Constitutional Law: A New Analytical Concept for Europe and Beyond? The book is scheduled to be published in 2027.

https://www.law.lu.se/article/laurianne-allezard-signs-publication-contract-edward-elgar - 2026-05-15

There has been a record-breaking number of applicants for Lund University’s international recruitment drive. The original total of 25 advertised positions has been increased to 45 – researchers from some of the world’s leading universities who are now heading to Lund. As part of Lund University’s global excellence initiative, the Faculty of Law has hired an assistant professor and three visiting p

https://www.law.lu.se/article/unprecedented-interest-international-recruitment-faculty-law-welcomes-four-leading-researchers - 2026-05-15

The Faculty of Social Sciences will offer five Autumn Workshops in Methods and Methodologies this year. These are for teachers, researchers, and PhD candidates who desire to continue to broaden and deepen their knowledge of research methods. You may sign up for more than one workshop: their schedules do not conflict.  All workshops are offered in English. Timing September–October 2023. Dates are d

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/autumn-methods-workshops-2023 - 2026-05-15

The nominating committee has now completed its work on proposing candidates for the positions as dean, deputy dean and faculty board members. The election will be held after the summer, in September. The nominating committee proposes Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt as dean and Björn Badersten as deputy dean for the next term of office, 1 January 2024 – 31 December 2026. The following proposal is sent by

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/nominating-committees-proposal-dean-deputy-dean-and-faculty-board-members - 2026-05-15

Three areas have been granted faculty funding to consolidate, develop and give visibility to strong, interdisciplinary research areas at the Faculty of Social Sciences through various activities. The faculty management has assessed that three of the areas that applied for funding in the faculty's call have the potential to achieve the criteria for a strong interdisciplinary research environment af

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/they-receive-funding-develop-strong-research-areas - 2026-05-15

Lund University has the opportunity to nominate up to three candidates for participation in STINT Teaching Sabbatical every year. The Faculty of Social Sciences and other faculties are given the opportunity to nominate two candidates each. The nominee must be a PhD, employed and well-established in Lund University's activities. About the programme STINT Teaching Sabbatical is a programme that offe

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/time-apply-stint-teaching-sabbatical-0 - 2026-05-15

On 31 August, the elections at the Faculty of Social Sciences start and it will be possible for all eligible voters at the faculty to log in to the electoral system and cast their vote. Look out for the call for elections sent by email to all faculty staff. If you are entitled to vote, you can log on to lu.easyvote.se until 15 September at 23.59 and cast your vote.  See who is entitled to vote in

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/time-elect-dean-pro-dean-and-faculty-board - 2026-05-15

The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) were launched internally in LUCRIS last week. Login to see which goals, if any, have been added to your research. Log in to LUCRIS - lucris.lu.se (new window) There might be SDGs added to your research in the following sections:  •    Your public profile  •    Your projects •    Your research outputs/publications The information about SDGs will only be

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/has-your-research-received-any-sustainable-development-goals-sdg-lucris - 2026-05-15