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Panel 1 – law
Great emphasis should be laid on personnel planning. In the near future,
several professors will retire. The Faculty should have a clear policy how
the continuity in the affected disciplines can be ensured.
2.2. Public Law
In comparison to other disciplines in Lund, Public Law has a fair
amount of teachers: the subject of public law two professors and three
other teachers; environmental law one associate professor; social law
two teachers; and taxation law one professor and one other teacher. Five
doctoral students are listed as well, in addition to which two Vietnamese
doctoral candidates have been accepted within the framework of the Swedish/Vietnamese
project on legal education. However, there is no chair in
constitutional law (nor is such a chair envisaged) and, consequently, very
little scholarship in this discipline.
2.3. Private Law I and II (The Social Dimension)
The researchers of Private Law I and Private International Law seem to
work closely together. However, they belong to different teaching teams.
This solution should be reconsidered.
The researchers in Private Law II work in a very integrated way, which
seems to ensure prominent results. They are actively engaged in multidisciplinary
research and in international co-operation, working also as
experts in, for instance, the context of the EU.
The retirement of prominent researchers makes it urgent to ensure that
new professors are recruited in this well-performing area to maintain the
standard achieved.
2.4. Criminal Law and the Law of Procedure
The majority of the professors in the area of Criminal Law and the Law of
Judicial Procedure will retire in the near future, which will probably lead
to considerable changes. The younger criminal law teachers, including
two associate professors, are junior researchers who have completed their
doctorates at Lund. In this respect, continuity seems to be ensured. The
junior researchers have divergent research profiles: gender studies, different
fields of criminal policy, traditional criminal law doctrines, and issues of
international and EU criminal law.
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