Lund University was founded in 1666 and is one of the world's top universities. The University has approximately 46,000 students and 8,600 staff based in Lund, Helsingborg, Malmö and Ljungbyhed. We are united in our efforts to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition.
Lund is one of the most popular places to study in Sweden. The University offers one of the broadest ranges of programmes and courses in Scandinavia, based on cross-disciplinary and cutting-edge research.
The unique disciplinary range encourages boundary-crossing collaborations both within academia and with society at large, creating excellent conditions for scientific breakthroughs and innovations. The University has a strong international profile, with partner universities in 76 countries.
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Michael Molavi
Michael Molavi is a sociologist of law at Lund University’s Department of Sociology of Law. With a background in law and political science, Michael’s research covers a range of sociolegal areas focusing on legal mobilisation, opportunity structures, class actions and collective redress, and legal group formations in different socio-juridical contexts, with a particular interest in the instrumentalisation of law in both resistance and governance. He holds a PhD (2018) in Political Science from York University and was a research fellow (2018-2022) at the University of Oxford’s Bonavero Institute of Human Rights before joining Lund University in 2022. His current research and publications focus on lawfare, juridical fields of contestation, and the material, human, and institutional resources that underpin collective legal mobilisation in comparative perspective. More information can be found on his Lund profile.
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Isabel Schoultz
Isabel Schoultz is an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at the department of the Sociology of Law of Lund University with a research focus on corporate crime, migrant worker exploitation, and access to justice. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime and draws on law, criminology, and the sociology of law in her interdisciplinary work. Her current research includes a high-profile study of the Lundin case, examining legal accountability for corporate involvement in international crimes, as well as projects on the regulation of "revolving doors" between public office and private enterprise in Sweden. She also leads and collaborates on Nordic and Swedish initiatives addressing migrant worker exploitation and victims' access to justice. Her work is supported by prestigious institutions such as the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, the Swedish Research Council, and the Nordic Research Council for Criminology.
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Elin Jönsson
Elin Jönsson is a postdoctoral researcher at the Sociology of Law Department, Lund University. In 2024, she defended her doctoral thesis Hardened Responsibility?, which investigates the hardening of corporate social responsibility as an outcome of contestation and struggle. In broad terms, Elin’s research interests cover issues related to power, law, and regulation, as well as social justice, crisis, and conflict. This includes, for example, struggles for justice and accountability in the wake of corporate harm (Justice from Below). Her work has been published in international journals, such as the British Journal of Criminology and Critical Criminology.