Laima Vaigė awarded Benzelius prize
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Laima Vaigė, senior lecturer in private international law and international civil procedure at the Department of Law, was recently awarded a prize for her research by the Royal Swedish Society of Sciences in Uppsala.
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The Benzelius Awards have been awarded annually since the 1980s to recognise and reward the achievements of deserving younger researchers. On 29 August 2023, Laima Vaigė was awarded the 2023 Benzelius Prize in the historical-archaeological class for her "outstanding comparative law studies analysing the fundamental obligations of states to safeguard human rights and the protection of sexual minorities in Europe".
Laima Vaigė is a teacher and researcher in private international law and international civil procedure and its relation to human rights at the Department of Law. Her latest selected publications are a monograph "Cross-Border Recognition of Formalized Same-Sex Relationships in Europe" (Intersentia, 2022), and a chapter in the book "Changing Families, Changing Law" (ed. K. Duden, D. Wiedemann, Intersentia, 2023).
She also works as a researcher at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society (CRS Uppsala) and is an elected theme leader for Theme 3: Family, Law, and Society, which aims to explore the legal, religious, cultural, social and political processes through which norms around family and intimacy are (re)defined.
Maria Cicilaki
More about the Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala
The Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala is Sweden's oldest learned society (academy), founded in 1710 by Eric Benzelius the Younger, modelled on similar learned societies on the continent. Famous members in the 18th century include Carl Linnaeus, Anders Celsius, Emmanuel Swedenborg, Nils Rosén von Rosenstein, Samuel Klingenstierna, and Torbern Bergman.