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2017 - Standardization and application of law in contract law - Ola Svensson - Lund University
A characteristic feature of Swedish law is that regulations must be enacted by law if they relate to the financial relations between individuals. This means that...
2017 - The European Union's measures against BEPS in Swedish legal perspective - Lars Samuelson - Uppsala University, Sweden
The aim is to examine the European Union's (EU) measures against BEPS - i.e. base erosion and profit shifting through...
2017 - Abusive treatment in schools - responsibility and enforcement - Maria Refors Legge - Stockholm University
All children in Sweden have the right to education. This is something that is guaranteed to them in both Swedish law and in...
2017 - Electronic contracts - Lena K. Olsen - Uppsala University, Sweden
This is an application for a continuation grant. The original project was based on a book "Communications Law in the Electronic Media Landscape"...
2017 - Young offenders with severe mental disorder at the time of the offense - Kerstin Nordlöf - Örebro University
Under Swedish criminal law, unlike most other legal systems, a person suffering from a serious mental disorder...
2017 - The Binding Memory: The History of the Law Faculty at Lund University - Kjell Å. Modéer - Lund University
In connection with Lund University's 350th anniversary, the Faculty of Law has published a faculty history, written by the undersigned Professor Emeritus of Legal History Kjell...
2017 - Disclosure requirements for tax advisors - David Kleist - University of Gothenburg
Several states, including Sweden, are considering the introduction of disclosure rules for tax advisors, and in some states such rules have been...
2017 - The three-tier rules in situations involving non-residents - Jesper Johansson - Stockholm School of Economics, SIR
It is estimated that there are around 100,000 active Swedish limited liability companies with an annual turnover of over SEK 1 million. The owners of these companies...
2017 - Compulsory care of pregnant addicts - a comparative law study - Jeanna Hoffmann - Örebro University
When a pregnant woman consumes alcohol or other drugs, the substances are transferred through the placenta to the fetus. Consumption of alcohol during pregnancy...
2017 - Private Judicial Proceedings - Joel Eriksson - Lund University
Private adjudication - an analysis of new and emerging forms of contract-based dispute resolution The fact that commercial parties choose to resolve their...
2017 - Atoning for crime. Female criminal responsibility in late medieval law - Christine Ekholst - Uppsala University, Sweden
Court records from the Middle Ages show that courts were hesitant to sentence some female criminals according to the law. An example from the City of Stockholm's think tank...
2017 - Nutrition bans - an important untapped multidisciplinary legal topic - Mikael Berglund - Stockholm School of Economics, SIR
Restraining orders were first introduced in the context of bankruptcy, but were then gradually extended to other areas of law, including today...