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Moa Lidén, Doctor of Laws at the Faculty of Law and the University College London, is one of four other researchers from Uppsala University and a t...

The Faculty of Law recently decided to award this year's von Matern Prize to former labour lawyer Bo Ericson. The prize will be awarded at a semina...

It has previously been announced that Anna Jonsson Cornell has been appointed as an expert in the Committee on some issues concerning fundamental r...

A passionate interest in her subject and in writing is what drove Inger Österdahl, Professor at the Department of Law at Uppsala University, to res...

The application pressure has even increased.

The Faculty of Law in Uppsala has appointed Professor Vesna Rijavec, Faculty of Law, University of Maribor (Slovenia), and Anders Eka, Justice and ...

The Department of Law is pleased to welcome four new doctoral students, admitted to our sought-after doctoral programme in the latest annual and ge...

Marc Landeman, Senior Lecturer in private law at the Department of Law and Director of the Real Estate and Land Law Research Institute (Institutet ...

The Swedish Research Council has decided that Dag Michalsen, Professor of Legal History and Law at the University of Oslo, will be the 2025 holder ...

Anna Jonsson Cornell, Professor at the Department of Law at Uppsala University, and Richard Sannerholm, Senior Lecturer in Law at Södertörn Univers...

Gustaf Almkvist, senior lecturer in criminal law at the Department of Law, Uppsala University, together with a number of other people, has been app...

Anna Jonsson Cornell, professor of comparative constitutional law and associate professor of constitutional law at the Department of Law, Uppsala U...

The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency recently granted a total of SEK 21 996 806 to the project 'Navigating the Political Landscape: Barriers...

Laima Vaigė, senior lecturer in private international law and international civil procedure at the Department of Law, was recently awarded a prize ...

On 1 September 2023, Tom Mulisa defends his thesis in Constitutional law. His thesis analyses the designs and contexts of supranational polities su...

On 31 July 2023, Professor Emeritus of Private International Law and Procedure Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg gave the prestigious opening lecture at the ...

The Board of the Faculty of Law has decided that the Stig Strömholm Prize for Research in Humanistic Law and Social Sciences social science researc...

Oskar Mossberg, researcher in civil law at the Department of Law, together with Erik Bengtson (researcher in rhetoric at the Department of Literatu...

Senior Lecturer in Private Law, Jonatan Schytzer has together with Olof Wadell (PhD, Department of Business Studies) been awarded 2,000,000 SEK fro...

On 12 June, Markus Ehrenpil successfully defended his doctoral thesis in private law (specialised in insolvency law). The thesis deals with the reo...

Yaffa Epstein, Associate Professor of Environmental Law at the Faculty of Law, has recently been published in the scientific journal Science. The a...

The Young Academy of Sweden recently welcomed eight prominent researchers from a wide range of disciplines as new members. Yaffa Epstein, Associate...

The board of the Swedish Institute for International Law (SIFIR) recently decided to award Hanna Aftonfalk for the best LLM thesis in Public Intern...

Professor Katia Cejie discusses the legal situation at a parliamentary seminar on Sponsorship and Corporate Social Responsibility - Is current prac...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) recently presented the research projects that have been selected for IVA's 100 list for 202...

Each year, the Uppsala Lawyers Alumni Foundation organises an alumni day to offer currently working lawyers the opportunity to participate in an ex...

On 18 April Henrik Forshamn will defend his licentiate thesis in legal history. What exactly is legal history, should it be divided into two discip...

From 13 to 20 April 2023, Professor Katia Cejie and Professor Emeritus Bertil Wiman of the Department of Law will host the Eucotax/Wintercourse, an...

Can a computer analyse a picture of a face and decide how old the person is? Anders Hast thinks it can. He is currently developing an algorithm tha...

Representatives of the “UR-Sweden Program” are at the moment in Rwanda to celebrate 20 years of research cooperation between the countries, funded ...

The Doctoral council of the Faculty of Law at Uppsala University is happy to invite you to a national conference dedicated to Doctoral Candidates i...

Recently, Associate Professor Marie Linton and Professor Eric Bylander from Juridicum in Uppsala were in Wrocław, Poland, for the first expert meet...

What happens when the law doesn't keep up with technology? How is accountability to be enforced when there is no longer a human behind the decision...

Welcome to apply for a doctoral student position in this year's general doctoral student announcement, with at least three positions available. Add...

Over the past few weeks, the Educational Office and teachers have been working hard to welcome new and current students for the start of spring cou...

Uppsala University's annual Winter Conferment Ceremony took place on 27 January at which the Faculty of Law’s two honorary doctors, Professor Emeri...

Karolina Stenlund, Doctor of Laws, formerly active at the Uppsala Department of Law, is one of the recipients of the award for “valuable contributi...

Maria Refors Legge has been awarded approximately SEK 1.6 million by the Foundation for Jurisprudential Research for a research project on academic...

Joel Samuelsson, Professor of Private Law, Gustaf Almkvist, Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law, and Mikael Ruotsi, Senior Lecturer in Constitutional L...

Uppsala University’s former Vice-Chancellor Stig Strömholm has been awarded the Swedish Academy’s Grand Prize. The medal is the Academy’s most dist...

On December 15th the Swedish Government appointed Margareta Brattström, Professor of Private Law and Anders Perklev, President of Svea Court of App...

The main objective of the project is to explore how the legal regulations of emergency preparedness and total defense together can form a cohesive ...

E-waste is the fastest growing waste stream globally. To mitigate the negative environmental impact e-waste has on the environment, the EU is curre...

Recently, the Department of Law at Uppsala University arranged a conference on the theme unauthorized use of e-identification. A total of 115 parti...

Philosophical discussions, lectures on groundbreaking discoveries and the chance to see the celebrities of science in real life. Uppsala University...

The Department of Law welcomes Mar Ouro Del Olmo, who was recently admitted as a doctoral student in environmental law with an interdisciplinary fo...

This year marks 30 years since European Union citizenship came into being. It will be highlighted at an international, interdisciplinary conference...

How can legislation be connected to climate targets? David Langlet, Professor of Environmental Law at Uppsala University, examines the dynamics bet...

On Friday 18 November, 53 new professors will be inaugurated at Uppsala University during a solemn ceremony in the University Main Building. The Fa...