Criminal Law
Criminal law as a research as well as teaching subject at the law department deals with questions of theoretical and practical nature and comprehends analyses of the impact of criminal the criminal legal system on a societal level as well as on an individual level.
The reseach comprises both traditional legal scientific perspectives and critical perspectives and involves social scientific methods and covers national as well as international studies.
Upcoming events
28 April at 10-12 – Seminar with Dr. Fiona Donson, University College Cork School of Law on the Travellers Project
20 May at 14-17 – Hybrid Workshop in Collective Responsibility and Autonomy in Criminal Law, with Jennifer Nedelsky et al.
TBA Seminar with Claes Lernestedt, Södertörns högskola
10 June at 13-15 Roundtable with Prof. Lydia Bleasdale and Dr. Nick Cartwright, University of Leeds
11 June at 13-15 Seminar with Prof. Lydia Bleasdale and Dr. Nick Cartwright, University of Leeds
Past events
2025
19 March Seminar with Linnea Wegerstad, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Lund univeristy
2024
7 October Game Changer, co-arranged with Nordref.
5-6 September, organiser of Nordic Workshop in Criminal Law
2023
Otava Piha on consent and rape laws in Finland, on the 15th of February 2023
May-Len Skillbrei, Evidence in Rape Cases, on the 1st of March 2023
Alessandra Minissale, Emotions in Legal Decisions: The Construction of Objective Narratives in Italian Criminal Trials, co-organised with Emogu and KrimSem., on the 22nd of September 2023
Maria Rasmussen, Provokation, affekt och den straffrättsliga värderingen av våldsbrott, Högre seminarieserie I straffrätt 31st October 2023
2022
Nicola Lacey, School Professor of Law, Gender, and Social Policy, LSE, Criminal Justice and Social (In)justice. Reader is Monica Burman, Professor in Criminal Law, at Umeå University, the 25th of May.
Lise Gotell, Landrex Distinguished Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada on “On Display: The intersections between the rough sex defence and rough sex pornography in Canadian sexual assault decisions”. Reader is Ulrika Andersson, Professor in Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law, Lund University, the 27th of April
Tova Bennet, LL.D. in criminal law, Straffansvar vid atypiska sinnestillstånd - teori, praktik och forskningsmetodik. Reader Ivar Lavett, doctoral candidate in criminal law, the 9th of March
Andreas Anderberg, LLD, Lund university Dennis Martinsson, LLD, Stockholm university & Erik Svensson, LLD Stockholm university on Teori och politik – straffrätt i omvandling [theory and policy – criminal law in transformation], 26th of October 2022