News about Law

Elliot Lester

Elliot is particularly interested in questions of environmental equity and the ways legal frameworks can either entrench disadvantage or serve as tools for innovation and social change.

The struggle for equal rights required pioneers

For many years the legal profession at Copenhagen University was closed to women, and the path for the first women who sought to study law, was extremely difficult.

Call for applications: Student Assistants at MOBILE

MOBILE is looking for 3–4 talented and committed students to assist the Center

New Scholarship Student - Sophie Thao Dinh

Sophie Thao Dinh joins MOBILE as a Scholarship Student.

New visiting researcher - Paula Sant'Ana Strogoff

Visiting from June 6 to July 6, 2026

New bill

New bill on the development and use of AI systems in the processing of personal data in public administration.

New Postdoctoral Researcher - Anna Murphy Høgenhaug

Anna Murphy Høgenhaug joins MOBILE as Postdoctoral Researcher.

New Permanent Visiting Professor - Mary Boatemaa Setrana

Mary Boatemaa Setrana joins MOBILE as Permanent Visiting Professor.

Call for applications: Postdoc in European Mobility Law

MOBILE is looking for a new postdoctoral fellow to start 1 Sept 2026.

Workshop on free movement in West Africa brings scholars to Accra

MOBILE and the Centre for Migration Studies convene international workshop in Ghana.

VELUX FOUNDATION funds new national sustainable initiative

A new national initiative, JURiB – Developing Competence in Law for Sustainability, unites Denmark’s legal research and educational environments with a shared mission: building a more sustainable society.

New Permanent Visiting Professor - Luuk van der Baaren

Luuk van der Baaren joins MOBILE as Permanent Visiting Professor.

New Visiting Researcher at CeBIL - Tatiana Aranovich

13 April - 8 May 2026

Danish municipalities and foreign policy – what can and can't they do?

As a rule, municipalities can't say much about foreign policy. But there are exceptions to that rule. A new research article from the Faculty of Law looks at where the line is drawn for municipalities when it comes to…

New Visiting Researcher at iCourts - Martin Herje

26 February - 12 March 2026

CIIR is a partner of COPY.AI

CIIR is proud to be a partner of the Nordic-Baltic research project “COPY.AI”, funded by NordForsk’s program on Responsible Use of AI.

Romeo Porsing

Romeo Porsing's project examines Danish and EU law governing the authorisation, establishment, and operation of nuclear test facilities, research facilities, and commercial operations.

New Visiting Researcher at MOBILE - Marianna Hu

Marianna Hu is visiting MOBILE from 9 February to 8 April 2026.

13th EELF Conference 2026 - Call for Abstracts

13th European Environmental Law Forum (EELF) Conference from 26–28 August 2026 – Call for Abstracts, submissions due by 10 April 2026.

Tobias Gomez Chevalier

Tobias Gomez Chevalier is a lawyer specialising in energy and environmental law, and currently a PhD candidate in International Relations at the Universidad Católica de Córdoba.

New Visiting Researcher at iCourts - Jan Novotny

1 - 31 May 2026

New Visiting Researcher at iCourts - Patrick Leisure

2 February - 30 April 2026

New Visiting Researcher at iCourts - Ragna Aarli

2 February - 30 April 2026

New Visiting Researcher at iCourts - Olga Pushina

2 - 31 March 2026