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professorspolitik och samhällsförändring ciples that were to apply over many sub-areas, not least as regards the legal protection of citizens in relation the State. At the same time, the flora of special administrative laws that was growing wild was sorted into three blocks: social welfare law, finance law, and law of public order and policy administration. Reuterskiöld worked on creating a drawing. The situation in Lund, again, was problematic for a long while. Robert Malmgren was appointed professor of constitutional law, administrative law, church law and public international law in 1911 after many years of temporary arrangements, substitute posts and visiting lecturers from Uppsala. With Malmgren, a period commenced during which the position of administrative law in Lund was stabilised. He held the professorship for 30 years until his retirement in 1941, and was responsible for teaching up to and including 1943. Malmgren did not produce any writings on administrative law, his production primarily focussing instead on constitutional law and within this area he brought out a wellknown standard work on Sweden’s fundamental laws. However he meant a great deal for the building up and holding together of the administrative law network that had started to develop in Sweden in the 1920s. Like Malmgren, political science and constitutional law were the primary interests of Otto Varenius, who became the first Professor in Stockholm with responsibility for the subject of constitutional law with political science, together with administrative law and public international law. It is difficult to find any evidence of either teaching or research with in administrative law having undergone any radical changes during his twenty years as a Professor. Varenius retired in 1925. Governmental power was held by the Social Democrats from 1932 for a virtually unbroken period of 44 years. The development of the ‘People’s Home’ continued, which could be observed particularly within social welfare and local government law. In addition, three other factors are noted that affected administrative law. First, international law ceased to be an ancillary subject to constitutional and administrative law as of the establishment of a special professor278 1925 to 1945

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