2013-06-19
Carl Fredrik Bergström, professor of European law at the Faculty, was named to serve as an expert adviser to a parliamentary committee tasked with evaluating the changes that were made in the Act (1999:678) on deployment of employees following the European Court of Justice decision in the so-called Laval case.
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2013-06-12
Lena Marcusson, professor of administrative law at the Faculty of Law since 1994, was recently, in connection with her retirement, thanked and honoured with a Festschrift for her important work as a scholar, teacher, and mentor at the Faculty.
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2013-06-11
Recently Magnus Ulväng, professor of criminal law at the Faculty, was named to serve as an expert adviser to a commission tasked with reviewing the ranges of punishments for certain serious violent crimes.
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2013-05-31
The Foyen Law Firm recently announced the winner of their national competition for the best degree project thesis in environmental law in 2012. The law alumna at the Faculty Anna Henriksson garnered the prize for her thesis "Markägarhänsyn i allemansrätten - Problem eller politik?" (Consideration of Landowners in the Right of Public Access - Problem or Politics?).
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2013-05-28
The government recently appointed a commission to review the rights of children in Swedish law, in which, among others, the Faculty's professors Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg and Karin Åhman will analyse whether the ways in which various public authorities apply Swedish law accord with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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2013-05-27
Every year the Vinge law firm awards scholarships to the law students at the universities of Uppsala, Lund, Stockholm and Gothenburg who authored the best degree project theses in commercial law in the past year. This year one of the winners was Miriam Istner-Byman.
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2013-05-06
David Gräslund, Rasmus Lüning, Hannah Ström and Ludvig Berke, all students on the Uppsala University Law Programme, successfully participated last weekend in the national finals in the 2013 Swedish Championship in Law. Their performance impressed the jury, which named Uppsala University Sweden's best higher-education institution for law.
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2013-04-19
The Uppsala Law Programme has distinguished itself by garnering first place in the Urank ranking of Swedish higher education institutions and programmes. The same Law Programme also tops the list of the five most popular programmes at the University in terms of number of applications for the coming year.
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2013-04-15
The Law Student Council has named its 2012/13 Teacher of the Year. After a nomination process in which all law students can vote, the Faculty's Håkan Andersson, a professor of civil law, was selected.
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