Collaborations & Networks at the Faculty and Department of Law
One of the fundamental tasks of the faculty is to contribute to the development and use of legal knowledge, regionally, nationally and internationally. Collaboration with the surrounding society is therefore a priority task for both research and education and is conducted through several different channels.
Exchange of knowledge through collaboration
The Faculty of Law collaborates and interacts with a large amount of individuals and organisations in our society. This manifests in different ways and through various channels, for instance by official opinions, alumni activities and contract education. We also have a mutual knowledge exchange between our students and practitioners of law, as the students continuously do internships at law firms, authorities and various organizations. In return, law practitioners from, amongst others, these bodys come and teach at our courses.
Our Centres, Forums and Networks
There are several centres, forums and networks connected to the Faculty of Law, working to strengthen research and education within their respective fields. Some have links to other operations inside and outside the university while others are independent units.
Below is a list of our cooperation forums in alphabetical order:
Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism (CEMFOR)
Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism (CEMFOR) at Uppsala university conducts, supports and coordinates broad-ranging, methodologically diverse and inclusive, as well as multidisciplinary research on racism, discrimination and integration.
Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society (CRS)
CRS is a multidisciplinary centre at Uppsala University, a Centre of Excellence for research on religious and social change processes in Sweden, Europe and globally.
CRS conducts internationally distinguished, multidisciplinary research. Social issues brought to the fore by people's existential experiences and the increasing visibility and presence of religions are the main areas of research.
Göteborg - Lund - Uppsala Migration Law Network
The Gothenburg / Lund / Uppsala Migration Law Network (GLUMIN) is a collaboration between Uppsala, Lund and Gothenburg Faculties of Law and the Department of Philosophy at Uppsala University with the aim of developing migration law and migration law research in Sweden.
The research network includes researchers in the field of migration law active at most of the country's universities and colleges. GL/UMIN also serves as a national research environment for researchers in the field of migration law within the framework of which seminars and workshops are arranged and collaborated in different constellations within and between higher education institutions.
The International Centre for Evidence-Based Criminal Law (EB-CRIME)
The International Centre for Evidence-Based Criminal Law (EB-CRIME) is a network that - by giving them guidlines to a new scientific approach to criminal justice - aims to facilitate evidence-based decision making by police, prosecutors, coroners, and judges in order to prevent wrongful convictions.
Leadership, Efficiency, Legality in Peacetime Crises (LERF)
A research collaboration on Swedish peacetime crisis preparedness with a focus on constitutional, administrative law and administrative policy aspects.
Legal Research Network
The Legal Research Network (LRN) was founded in 2006 by the faculties of law of the Universities of Groningen, Turku and Uppsala. The Universities of Bristol, Budapest (ELTE), Ghent, Göttingen and Lille-Nord de France have since joined the network.
The Legal Research Network (LRN) aims at improving the international profile of its members, strengthening (thematic) research cooperation by its staff, and promoting the international scientific perspectives of its young researchers.
LRN is thematically a general network in law. The annual Conference and Summer School are organized around specific themes which are approachable from different fields of legal research.
Unauthorised use of e-identification (Swedish)
Not so long ago, almost all banking transactions required a handwritten signature on paper. The development has been rapid and from the first steps with one-time codes and code boxes, BankID has become a matter of course for identification in many different contexts. The possibility of identifying oneself in this simple way has also increased the risk of abuse. There are many examples in court and committee practice of individuals appearing to have taken out loans of which they are unaware, and of bank accounts being emptied without the account holder knowing at all where the money has ended up or how it all happened.
The problems that have arisen are of great importance both to individuals and to the financial industry, while the legal issues that arise can be both complex and difficult to deal with. The aim of this research project is to identify, in collaboration with the surrounding community, issues of great importance to society and the industries concerned and to contribute important research in this important area.
Uppsala Human Rights Research Network
The network aims to highlight and further develop existing research on legal, ethical, philosophical and political perspectives on human rights and link it to current issues such as threats to rights, the different status of rights for different groups, the theoretical basis of rights and how rights can be demanded and implemented.
To be able to do this, our researchers gather around a variety of activities. We also want to create new contacts, meeting places and conversations that promote research and in-depth study for the network's members, for the university, and for society. The idea is also to create the conditions for joint applications to establish new research environments or programmes in the longer term.