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Panel 1 – law
The situation in procedural law is more alarming: there are only two
professors, one of which will soon retire.
Many of the researchers in criminal law and the law of judicial procedure
have been actively involved in various research projects. Participation
in and the aims of these projects have varied considerably. This can be
attributed to the ways in which research projects are funded today. Some
projects are commissioned, with externally defined research questions;
some are international projects in which professors are only nominally
involved. In some cases, projects have been able to secure partial funding
for junior researchers. The dean has apparently taken part in a large number
of projects as an organiser. One of the teachers has directed a project
financed by the Swedish Insurance Federation, and another has been
actively involved for ten years in the Nordic network “Law and Gender”.
Other Nordic networks are also represented, as well as numerous Swedish
and European research groups.
2.5. International Law
2.5.1. Public International Law
Public international law constitutes a relatively small research unit,
consisting of one full-time and tenured, and one part-time professor,
as well as one tenured associate professor. The part-time professor is
also the director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute. However, this link
between the Faculty and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute will be cut
in the near future. The research staff includes five doctoral students
working in Lund and two stationed in Riga. In addition, the professor
of public international law is co-supervisor of two additional doctoral
students. The relative high number of doctoral students may be seen as
reinforcement to research resources. But, on the other hand, supervising
the doctoral students may also be seen as a drain on the senior staff’s
research possibilities.
Co-operation with the Raoul Wallenberg Institute adds to the research
resources available in public international law. It is therefore important
that the loosening of the organizational tie between the faculty and the
institute will not endanger the well-functioning cooperation. The library
of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, which is especially rich on human
rights literature, is available also to researchers stationed at the university.
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