Spring semester

Master´s level
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 150 ECTS of law school studies at university level.

Course description

This course deals with issues concerning how EU law is enforced at the national level and which remedies that are at hand if the application of Union provisions does not function according to the objectives of the EU Treaties. Moreover, certain attention is drawn upon the various types of proceedings before the ECJ and the possibility to claim for damages according to the case law of the ECJ.

This course looks at how EU law is enforced, both at the national level and in the Court of Justice of the EU. It examines how individuals and the EU institutions can challenge member states who do not comply with their EU law obligations, and what remedies are available to those individuals and institutions. It also considers how the acts of EU institutions themselves can be challenged. Throughout the course, students will engage both with detailed questions of EU procedural law and with overarching constitutional principles of EU law, such as direct effect, supremacy and national procedural autonomy. The course will also explore the way in constitutional principles from the member states' legal orders, such as fundamental rights principles, shape the way in which EU law is enforced.

This is the fundamental course at the specialisation level within the field of EU law.

Programme Administrator: Roma Knutsson, roma [dot] knutsson [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (roma[dot]knutsson[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se)
Course director: Associate Senior Lecturer Petra Gyöngyi

• Schedule Spring 2025 (shown in TimeEdit’s view) to be announced
• Course syllabus JUFN03 (shown as PDF)
• Course literature JUFN03 (shown as PDF)

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Master´s level
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 150 ECTS of law school studies at university level.

Course description

The course will cover central issues relating to accountability in international law, with a focus on non-state actors (NSA), including International Organizations, natural persons, organized armed groups, and legal persons such as corporations. As such, the course will also examine the notion of legal subjectivity in international law, with a focus of non-state actors in international law. Under the umbrella term of accountability, issues of responsibility and liability will be examined. The course will examine issues of accountability as arising in different areas of international law in which NSA operate, including e.g. international human rights law, international criminal law, international humanitarian law, international refugee law, and business and human rights. The notion of accountability in international law will be studied in a developmental perspective. In this view, the emergence and crystallization of new general principles and substantive norms of international law having a bearing on how accountability for international law violations is conceptualized and applied vis-àvis NSA (e.g. including in state domestic practice) will be examined.

Programme Administrator: Therése Fahlström, therese [dot] fahlstrom [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (therese[dot]fahlstrom[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se)
Course director: Postdoc Alberto Rinaldi

• Schedule Spring 2025 (shown in TimeEdit’s view) to be announced
• Course syllabus JUZN16 (shown as PDF)
• Course literature JUZN16 (shown as PDF)

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Study period 3:1

2025-01-20 – 2025-02-19

Master´s level.
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 150 ECTS of law school studies at university level.

Course description

The course will start off with an introduction into regimes in international law and offer an overall comparison of the trade and migration regimes against the backdrop of economic and human rights parameters. The interest of the states to regulate migration is taken as a vantage point. A central issue running through the course is how the state sovereign entitlement to control immigration could come into conflict with human rights law.

The course will include inter alia lectures on the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, The Common European Asylum System, The Dublin System, Protection from Refoulement under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, Evidentiary Assessment in Asylum Cases, Children as Asylum-seekers. Another building block of the course will cover protection of migrant workers who are vulnerable to abusive practices. Lectures belonging to this block will address Trafficking in Human Rights Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, the ILO and the Protection of Migrant Workers. The course will include seminars where students will be required to actively participate. The participation will be essential for the exam preparation. A visit to the Migration court in Malmö is also part of the course.

The exam will be in the format of a take home exam, which will include one essay question and three focus questions. To pass the exam students will be required to demonstrate their skills of developing formal legal argumentation. Students are required to analyze case law with regard to the legal questions, the legal arguments and solutions proposed and to show strong analytical skills. In addition, students should demonstrate their understanding of the migration law regime as a whole and to identify the forces affecting the legal regulation of migration.

Programme Administrator: Linnea Lundahl, linnea [dot] lundahl [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (linnea[dot]lundahl[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se)
Course director: Associate Professor Vladislava Stoyanova

• Schedule Spring 2025 (shown in TimeEdit’s view) to be announced
• Course syllabus JUFN20 (shown as PDF)

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Study period 3:2

2025-02-20 – 2025-03-23

Master´s level.
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 150 ECTS of law school studies at university level. Students are also required to take Migration Law JUFN20.

Course description

In light of the paramount importance of the issue of migration in the contemporary world, the rationale behind this course is to dig deeper into some critical themes within migration law. The interest of the states to regulate migration is taken as a vantage point. A central issue running through the course is how the state sovereign entitlement to control immigration could come into conflict with the interests of migrants.

This conflict will be explored, for example, in the following critical thematic areas: the law of the sea and the obligation to rescue people in distress, including those who might be asylum seekers; the best interest of the child in asylum determination procedures (with a focus on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child); responsibility of the European Union in relation to its migration control policies (with a focus on the externalization of border controls); detention of asylum seekers and migrants; the right to family life of migrants; exclusion from refugee status (for those that are considered dangerous) and cessation of refugee status (for those whose countries of origin are considered safe); migration ‘emergencies’ and ‘crisis’ (with a focus on Europe); and refugee protection in Africa (a crucial theme, since the current EU policy is to build capacities of third states to provide external protection).

In addition to lectures, the course will include a number of seminars. Participation in the seminars will form part of the final grade and participation will be also crucial for the exam preparation.

The exam will be in the format of an essay. As this course is meant to dig deeper into particular questions of migration, students’ skills in elaborating on a topic need to be tested. The essay topic will cut across at least two subject matters that have been covered in class. At the same time, a meaningful engagement with the topic will require a comprehensive understanding of the issues discussed in class.

To pass the exam students will be required to demonstrate their skills of developing formal legal argumentation. Students are required to analyze case law with regard to the legal questions, the legal arguments and solutions proposed and to show strong analytical skills. In addition, students should demonstrate their understanding of the migration law regime as a whole and to identify the forces affecting the legal regulation of migration.

Programme Administrator: Linnea Lundahl, linnea [dot] lundahl [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se
Course director: Associate Professor Vladislava Stoyanova

• Schedule Spring 2025 (shown in TimeEdit’s view) to be announced
• Course syllabus JUFN32 (shown as PDF)

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Bachelor level.
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 60 ECTS of law school studies at university level.

Course description

The course offers a broad introduction to the general concepts, sources and fundamental principles in International Human Rights Law. The course consists of 4 components: (1) The fundamental concepts of human rights, (2) the international and regional bodies of human rights, (3) the substantive rights and obligations of human rights, and (4) the future of human rights.

Programme Administrator: Linnea Lundahl linnea [dot] lundahl [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se
Course director: Associate professor Julian Nowag

• Schedule Autumn 2025 (shown in TimeEdit’s view) to be announced
• Course syllabus JUXJ03 (shown as PDF)

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Bachelor level.
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 60 ECTS of law school studies at university level.

Course description

Introduction to Swedish Law is given as a course for international students during the first period of the autumn term. The purpose of this course is to present the main features of the Swedish legal system and to introduce the students to selected topics of substantive Swedish law.

Whilst the basic tenets of constitutional law, criminal law, private law, procedure law, family law, and labour law will always be studied; other fields of law included in the curriculum may vary from time to time. The teaching will, however, focus on the aspects of Swedish law and the Swedish legal system that are of special interest from a comparative point of view. Ideally, the study of Swedish law will actually result in an enhanced understanding of the student's native legal system.

The teaching comprises, inter alia, lectures given on the central areas of Swedish law and supervision in the composition of an essay. As lectures are held in relatively small groups, active participation by the students is not only possible but also encouraged.

It should be emphasized that the composition of the essay constitutes an important part of the course, in which individual preferences can be catered for whilst students are given, at the same time, the opportunity to deepen their knowledge in a specific area of law.

Students will be graded in accordance with the result of an oral examination, the mark awarded for the essay and the oral defence of the essay, as well as for the project work.

Programme Administrator: Roma Knutsson, roma [dot] knutsson [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (roma[dot]knutsson[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se)
Course director: Associate Professor Sacharias Votinius

• Schedule Spring 2025 (shown in TimeEdit’s view) to be announced
• Course syllabus JUXJ04 (shown as PDF)
• Course literature JUXJ04 (shown as PDF) to be announced

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Master´s level
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 150 ECTS of law studies at university level, including courses corresponding to at least 7,5 ECTS of EU Law.

Course description

The course provides an overview of EU external relations law and the interaction between the EU and international trade law. In particular, it covers: i) the EU's external competence and its role as a global legal actor; ii) the status of international law within the EU and the EU's participation in international organisations; and iii) the relationship of the EU legal order with WTO law and international trade agreements with global trading partners.

Programme Administrator: Roma Knutsson, roma [dot] knutsson [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (roma[dot]knutsson[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se)
Course director: Senior Lecturer Marja-Liisa Öberg

• Schedule Spring 2025 (shown in TimeEdit’s view) to be announced
• Course syllabus JAEN55 (shown as PDF)
• Course literature JAEN55 (shown as PDF)

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Master´s level
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 150 ECTS of law studies at university level, including courses corresponding to at least 7,5 ECTS of EU Law.

Course description

Trademarks, designs and copyright may be regarded as crucial ingredients in today’s commercial language. Designs are decisive for commercial actors in order for their products to attract interest among potential consumers and consumers are increasingly attaching importance to design. Trademarks are important as communicators of commercial information in the market and they inevitably play a role in guaranteeing the validity of commercial messages. Copyright is the basis of the most profitable creative industries such as movie, software production, book publishing and others. Moreover with seemingly all-encompassing digitalization other businesses in other branches are realizing the importance of proper management of their copyright protected Resources.

These intellectual property tools are important for consumers as well as proprietors. As a consequence it is problematic when design, copyright and trademark rights are infringed and when the value that they represent gets blurred or tarnished. Simultaneously it is of crucial importance that the general public is allowed to have opinions in relation to trademarks, copyright and design. It is also important, for the benefit of efficient competition, that there is room for fair use, without risking infringement actions. The different interests in the field of design, copyright and trademark law are balanced by a framework of regulations and the aim of this course is to study this framework.

During the course trademark, design and copyright law will be studied from a
European perspective. The aim of the course is that the students shall obtain in depth understanding of European trademark, design and copyright law, with a particular emphasis on international aspects. These fields of law will be studied both in relation to the formation of rights, national rights as well as community rights, and in relation to infringement of rights including remedies in cases of infringements.

Programme Administrator: Roma Knutsson, roma [dot] knutsson [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (roma[dot]knutsson[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se)
Course director: Postdoc Aurelija Lukoseviciene and Senior Lecturer Ulrika Wennersten

• Schedule Spring 2025 (shown in TimeEdit’s view) to be announced
• Course syllabus JAEN63 (shown as PDF)

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Master´s level
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 150 ECTS of law school studies at university level.

Course description

The principal object is to present salient features of maritime and transportation law at an introductory level and mainly from a private law perspective.
The course covers three subject areas, namely, maritime law; carriage of goods by sea, and an overview of carriage of goods by other means of transport. These areas consist of mainly international conventional regimes.

Programme Administrator: Roma Knutsson, roma [dot] knutsson [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (roma[dot]knutsson[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se)
Course director: Associate Senior Lecturer Olena Bokareva

• Schedule Spring 2025 (shown in TimeEdit’s view) to be announced
• Course syllabus JUFN24 (shown as PDF)
• Course literature JUFN24 (shown as PDF)

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Study period 4:1

2025-03-24 – 2025-05-04

Master´s level
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 150 ECTS of law studies at university level, including courses corresponding to at least 7,5 ECTS of public international law or international law.

Course description

The course will cover the central areas of international human rights law structured under the following main headings:

• The history of fighting serious crime and terrorism and attached case law and the legal and moral considerations while doing so. The course examines the concept of terrorism and serious crime in national and international law, mainly European. The course also examines what technological possibilities exist in the fight and how they can be used by private and public actors.
• General part of International Human rights Law and good policing. The course examines what parts of human rights law are affected by using advanced technology in the combat of serious crime and terrorism. In connection with this the use of technology and methods in democracies and totalitarian states will be examined.
• The role of the police in democratic and undemocratic environments. The course focuses on the role of the police in democratic and undemocratic environments and what role, in practice and in theory, human right law must play in societies faced with challenges of, inter alia, violence and terror.

Programme Administrator: Linnea Lundahl, linnea [dot] lundahl [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (linnea[dot]lundahl[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se)
Course director: Senior Lecturer Karol Nowak

• Schedule Spring 2025 (shown in TimeEdit’s view) to be announced
• Course syllabus JAMR36 (shown as PDF)
• Course literature JAMR36 (shown as PDF)

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Study period 4:1

2025-03-24 – 2025-05-04

Master´s level.
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 150 ECTS of law studies at university level, including courses corresponding to at least 7,5 ECTS of public international law or international law.

Course description

The aim of the course is to provide the students with the possibility to critically analyse the impact of cultural diversity, as a legal standard, within the contemporary regime of international human rights law. Particular emphasis will be given to the influence of cultural diversity on the construction of differentiated legal regimes for diverse groups, such as ethno-cultural minorities and indigenous peoples.

Different disciplines have focused on cultural diversity and in the manner that this notion has shape modern societies. In this course, cultural diversity will be approached from a legal standpoint, tracking its presence – as a legal standard – in different international human rights instruments, and – in particular – through the interpretation given by regional and international judicial or quasi-judicial bodies, such as the European and Inter- American Courts of Human Rights, the Human Rights Committee, etc.

In this sense, this course will provide a comparative approach between different regional systems of human right protection, in particular between the European and the Inter-American ones. Through the critical analysis of their jurisprudence, this course will focus on the manner that cultural diversity has influenced the interpretation and implementation of recognised human rights. In particular, it will encourage the development of an autonomous critical thinking vis-à-vis the potential contradictions that the use of cultural diversity – as a legal standard – has generated vis-à-vis the universal character of human rights.

Programme Administrator: Linnea Lundahl, linnea [dot] lundahl [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (linnea[dot]lundahl[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se)
Course director: Doctor of Laws, Senior Researcher Alejandro Fuentes

• Schedule Spring 2025 (shown in TimeEdit’s view) to be announced
• Course syllabus JAMR33 (shown as PDF)

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Study period 4:1

2025-03-24 – 2025-05-04

Master´s level
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 150 ECTS of law studies at university level, including courses corresponding to at least 7,5 ECTS of public international law or international law.

Course description

This course considers the role of the international system for the protection of human rights in addressing the interconnected issues of environmental degradation and climate change. It is structured in three parts.

The first part focuses on the historical development of the right to a healthy
environment. Using early case law and international declarations, this part traces the development of the right to a healthy environment as an increasingly established substantive human right, reflected amongst others in the Framework Principles on Human Rights and the Environment prepared by the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, and judgments from regional human rights courts.

The second part considers how international human rights law applies in the context of disasters. Recognising that human rights law can clearly constrain actors who would engage in conduct that directly damages the environment, how effectively can it compel states to take positive action to protect people from harm arising from hazards that are present within the environment, such as cyclones, floods and earthquakes? What steps must states take to address foreseeable hazards that can trigger disasters, and in what kind of circumstances might a state be considered to be in breach of its human rights obligations when disasters unfold? Together with a critical exploration of the legal limits of international human rights law to address the challenges presented by (climate-related) disasters, this part will also consider the role of human rights as part of a set of practical tools that frontline actors as well as
national authorities can draw upon in devising responses to concrete challenges.

Finally, the third part looks at the present and towards the medium-term future, asking whether catastrophic climate change imperils the continuity of the human rights paradigm. Issues relating to responsibility for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, climate justice, and cross-border displacement (‘climate refugees’) are in focus.

Programme Administrator: Linnea Lundahl, linnea [dot] lundahl [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (linnea[dot]lundahl[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se)
Course director: Adjunct Senior Lecturer Matthew Scott

• Schedule Spring 2025 (shown in TimeEdit’s view) to be announced
• Course syllabus JAMR39 (shown as PDF)

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Study period 4:2

2025-05-05 – 2025-06-08

Master´s level.
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 150 ECTS of law studies at university level, including courses corresponding to at least 7,5 ECTS of public international law or international law.

Course description

• The existence, nature and scope of corporate responsibilities regarding human rights: ‘soft law’ instruments at international level and relevant legal frameworks at national level. Issues addressed include corporate actors as subject and actors of international law; the foundational role of the 2011 UN Guiding Principles of Business and Human Rights, the duties of corporate management under company law; reporting requirements under transparency laws; and transnational litigation.
• The implementation of CSR and emerging best practices: stages of implementation, available guidelines at each stage and actors involved.
• Closer look at two industrial sectors: extractive industries and labour-intensive industries.
• Evolution of CSR – emerging issues and challenges: the limits of CSR; mechanisms for the scaling-up of CSR and the relationship between corporate voluntarism (CSR) and law.

Programme Administrator: Linnea Lundahl, linnea [dot] lundahl [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (linnea[dot]lundahl[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se)
Course director: Research Director and Associate Professor at RWI Radu Mares

• Schedule Spring 2025 (shown in TimeEdit’s view) to be announced
• Course syllabus JAMR12 (shown as PDF)
• Course literature JAMR12 (shown as PDF)

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Study period 4:2

2025-05-05 – 2025-06-08

Master´s level.
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 150 ECTS of law studies at university level, including courses corresponding to at least 7,5 ECTS of public international law or international law.

Course description

The systems of protection of fundamental rights in Europe have a huge impact on our lives and on the national legal frameworks.

The current setting of human rights protection in Europe is based on different sources that respond to different rationales. After the Second World War, our fundamental rights have been guaranteed in the European Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (the ECHR) or the Convention. Individuals who deem themselves victims of human rights law violations can complain to an international court, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). In addition to the ECHR, within Europe there is another legal framework that is also relevant to the protection of fundamental rights. This is EU law. Originally, the EU was primary focused on economic collaboration and fundamental rights were not part of the EU regulatory framework. This was, however, met with criticism. As a result, fundamental rights were recognized as fundamental principles of community law by the Court of Justice (ECJ). Thereafter, changes were introduced in the EU treaties and protection of fundamental rights was brought therein. The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights was adopted and since 2009 the Charter is binding EU law. These different instruments (ECHR and EU CFR) are overlapping and create a complicated network of human rights obligations with different risks and benefits for individuals and groups.

For these reasons, the course aims to not only offer lectures on the different systems
of fundamental rights protection in Europe and their interaction, but also to focus on certain concrete themes that pose contemporary challenges in our complex societies. Examples include positive obligations, privacy rights and judicial independence. 

Programme Administrator: Linnea Lundahl, linnea [dot] lundahl [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (linnea[dot]lundahl[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se)
Course director: Associate Professor Vladislava Stoyanova

• Schedule Spring 2025 (shown in TimeEdit’s view) to be announced
• Course syllabus JAMR45 (shown as PDF)

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Bachelor level.
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 60 ECTS of law school studies at university level.

Course description

The European Union is one of the world's largest and most important economies. This course will provide students with an insight into European Business Law.

The content ranges from considering the basic structures and principles of the European Union to focusing on various specialized areas of law. The course will give the students an understanding of the laws and policies that regulate the internal market of the European Union, as well as relevant case law and useful inputs from leading practitioners in the field.

Besides providing learners with a sound knowledge base of European laws and regulations relevant to establishing and managing a company within the European Union, the course also explores business considerations within a broader perspective by including inputs from leading law practitioners in the field. More specifically, the course discusses strategic and financial considerations within Company law, as well as Labour law issues such as restructuring enterprises, working conditions and handling crises situations.

The course also examines other legal areas such as Tax law, Environmental law and Private International law, and how they tie in to doing business in Europe.

The course discusses how to compete on the internal market and protect your brand, product or invention. It includes legal disciplines such as Intellectual Property law (IP law), Competition law and specific branches within Public law, such as public procurement and state aid.

The course is useful to students both inside and outside the European Union. The course gives a good understanding of European Union law while including lectures by some of the most leading academics and practitioners in the field.

The course is designed using the flipped classroom-model, which means that the lectures are web-based. All the lectures are pre-recorded and available on Blackboard to enable time in the classroom for seminars. The web based lectures are paired with mandatory quizzes.

Programme Administrator: ebl [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (ebl[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se)
Course director: Senior lecturer Annegret Engel

• Schedule Spring 2025 (shown in TimeEdit’s view) to be announced
• Course syllabus JUXJ02 (shown as PDF)
• Course literature JUXJ02 (shown as PDF)

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