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Panel 1 – law
tacts at national, Nordic, and international level, contributing to fruitful
research activities and to important publications in international fora.
Other researchers could undoubtedly take advantage of extending their
collaborative networks in order to realise the transnational aspects and
potential of their subject areas (see 3.2. above). Furthermore, a general
problem seems to be the absence of collaboration structures between researchers
within constitutional and administrative law, as well as EU law,
and the research activities within Public International Law, apart from ad
hoc collaboration between tax law and migration law (see 4.5.1. below).
4.3. Private Law I and Private Law II (The Social Dimension)
Domestic and international collaboration may be considered as a particularly
strong side of the activities within Private Law I and II. This
collaboration takes many forms.
Firstly, private-law researchers are involved in national and international
networks, some of the latter on a Nordic basis (e.g. foundation law,
maritime law). Exchange of researchers and teaching cooperation can also
be mentioned (see below).
Secondly, the researchers are engaged in advanced multi-disciplinary
cooperation with some other research units of the university. The Department
of Business Law at the School of Economics should be particularly
mentioned. Recently, a joint project of corporate governance has been
launched.
Thirdly, private-law researchers are active in the legal development
project with Vietnam. There is a well-developed exchange of teachers and
researchers, and four Vietnamese doctoral candidates are writing their
theses in Lund.
However, it is slightly surprising that there is no macro-regional cooperation
with the countries of Eastern Central Europe (or with the Baltic
countries). The private-law institutes of Poland, Czech Republic, and Slovakia
etc. would be quite natural partners for several reasons, and the private
laws of these new EU countries constitute an important object of research.
Private Law II (The Social Dimension) has a strong tradition of collaboration
with various partners. This includes multidisciplinary collaboration
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