ReseaRch Quality assuRance foR the futuRe a ... - Lund University

Panel 1 – law
In the last ten years, the research environment in criminal law and the
law of judicial procedure at Lund has become more active and lively. The
best research compares favourably with the accomplishments of other
Nordic law faculties. However, the intensity and scope of research activity
fall behind the best Nordic faculties. Here, again, the small size of the
Lund Faculty plays its role.
The grade for criminal and procedural law is between good and very good.
3.6. International Law
3.6.1. Public International Law
The research staff of Public International Law consists of relatively young
researchers who are only in the process of gaining a position in the
international research community of the discipline. However, in a quite
short time, the researchers, especially the professor of the discipline, have
established renown for innovative and theoretically ambitious research
on highly pertinent topics in public international law. The introduction
of new approaches and theoretically informed insights into the analysis
of doctrinal issues is characteristic for the research. Qualitatively the
research is of high international level, and in quantitative respect, the
output is quite extensive, especially taking into account the other responsibilities,
such as teaching, of the relatively small staff. A clear sign of
the internationally acknowledged level of the research is the publication
of books, authored or edited by members of the staff, by international
publishers, and of articles in international refereed journals. The grading
would be very good (or perhaps even excellent).
3.6.2. Private International Law and Comparative Law
There are very strong sides in the activities of the Lund researchers of
private international law. Notably, the volume of production of the
staff – as regards both study materials and scientific works – is impressive,
and the quality is high. The staff has published two doctoral theses,
two textbooks, two casebooks and a great number of scientific articles.
Furthermore, the staff members are active in international cooperation in
the field of teaching and thesis supervising.
On the other hand, certain deficiencies can also be identified: the staff
members do not belong to in-house research groups (from this point of
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