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Panel 1 – law
The aspect of legal development co-operation is strongly present in the
existing and planned research of the private-law team. It is understandable
that only one partner country, Vietnam, has been chosen.
7.3. Private Law II (The Social Dimension)
In the background documents, the Norma Research Programme is
characterised as ”the most successful research program during the last
decades at the Faculty of Law at Lund”.
The self-evaluation mentions as specific strengths of the team of Private
Law II the focusing on issues which topical are from a political, economical
and societal point of view; the inclusion of both the national, the EU and
the global perspective; a strong multidisciplinary profile; networking and
the ability to attract external funds. The diminishing number of full professors
and the small size of the staff are mentioned the main weaknesses.
Taking into account the quality of the research and its international
dimensions, the potentials seem well founded and the prospects realistic,
provided that sufficient resources are secured.
7.4. Criminal Law and the Law of Procedure
The basic structure of the staff is good. The combination of full professors,
associate professors, senior lecturers and doctoral students is in
balance. However the future prospects of research depend strongly on the
appointments of the professors of the next generation. Criminal Law and
Law of Procedure needs one professor who could focus on directing the
research.
The professors have successfully recruited and tutored several doctoral
candidates and younger researchers. Thus, the possibilities of hiring
young scholars to the research teams are good. The Lund team already
possesses broad multidisciplinary and international contacts, experience
of applying external research funding and ability to organize international
meetings and conferences. In this respect, the infra-structure is
in order. However, the teaching load is clearly draining too much of the
research capacity.
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