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Reza Banakar is an Iranian-born Professor of Legal Sociology at Lund University, Sweden. Before joining Lund in 2013, he was Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the Department of Advanced Legal Studies at the University of Westminster, London. He was born in Shiraz (Iran) and moved to England in the 1970s, where he went to school and studied mathematics.On 1 February 2013, he assumed the Chair in Legal Sociology at Lund University, Sweden.