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Panel 1 – law
strategy, and the SWOT analysis is rather unbalanced and not very
persuasive.
In tax law, the quality of research seems to be in some instances excellent,
and generally very good. Some researchers are very productive, so that in
that respect, too, the grade would be very good for this area. Relevance of
the tax law research is excellent, if not outstanding, in particular due to the
focus on international aspects and on intersection with other areas of law.
With regard to vitality and organisational capacity, tax law seems to be one
of the Public Law areas best able to conduct integrated and interdisciplinary
projects, and could therefore be considered excellent also in this regard.
The research quality in environmental law is good, as is the overall productivity.
Relevance is very good, for parts of the research even excellent.
Vitality and organisational capacity seem to be good.
EU law research has been published in internationally recognised fora,
which points to its excellent quality. The productivity within the field
seems very good, notwithstanding the limited staff resources allocated to
this area. The relevance of the research is also very good. The vitality factor
is difficult to assess, but this research area may be suffering from limited
resources. Despite the performance of individual researchers, given the
unsatisfactory state of organisation in which EU law finds itself, the
discipline as a whole cannot be given more than good as a grade.
The quality and relevance of research related to the international aspects of
administrative law are excellent, in particular as is reflected in the doctoral
dissertation on cross-border administrative cooperation. The productivity
of the researchers is very good. The vitality could best be graded good,
although more international research contacts should be developed.
A major problem in the public law research is the virtual lack of constitutional
law.
To sum up, the grade for public law is very good.
3.3. Private Law I
The Lund team of Private Law I is strong. This applies to the volume,
quality and relevance of the production of the staff members; domestic
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