News & Events

16.12.2025 Mika Viljanen

Insights as a Platform for Legal Scholarship: Reflections from the Dean

Insights has reached the one-year mark since its launch. The platform has grown fast. Instead of taking its first teetering steps, it is already running, offering a window into the intellectual life of our community. Insights reflects what the Faculty...

09.12.2025 Diana Leonti, Monica Kauppila and Stephanie Korolov

Vernissage: Re-framing Justice Through Art

Law lessons typically involve a mundane, text-heavy approach to understanding legal issues. However, a unique course titled “Law & Art” seeks to change this narrative. Students have embraced a new way of learning law through the creative lens of art. The results?...

25.11.2025 Isabell Storsjö, Anna Krizsán, Rosanna Laurikainen-Klami, Liudmila Sivetc and Miriam Tedeschi

The Legal Design Summit 2025 – Food for thought for research and teaching at the Faculty of Law

In September 2025, a group of Faculty of Law researchers and teachers headed to Helsinki to attend the Legal Design Summit 2025. This biannual event gathers a multidisciplinary audience of researchers and practitioners from all over the world around topics related to law...

18.11.2025 Ama Opoku Acquah

Bridging Global Norms and Local Realities: IP and Technical Cooperation in Africa

International treaties often struggle to capture specific regional or national priorities. This disconnect can cause difficulties that diminish their relevance and effectiveness, particularly in the Global South. This piece summarises and reflects on the TACIP 2025 Conference’s discussions about how...

11.11.2025 Miriam Tedeschi

Presenting the Research Council of Finland-funded Academy Fellowship ‘Agency in everyday Datafication’ (AgenDa)

In September 2025, the Research Council of Finland (RCF)-funded (decision no. 368166) four-year Academy Fellowship ‘Agency in everyday Datafication’ (AgenDa) started, led by Principal Investigator (PI) Dr Miriam Tedeschi. The project focuses on everyday datafication and data harms, their materialities and...

09.09.2025 Maryna Manteghi

A note from the new editor-in-chief

I have recently assumed the role of Editor-in-Chief of Insights, succeeding Jasmin Hannonen, who carried out this responsibility with great dedication and achieved excellent results together with the other members of the editorial team and the Faculty’s Communications Planner, Rosa Lampela. I...

11.06.2025 Daniela Alaattinoğlu

The Nils Klim Prize and Holberg Week: Inspiration, Wonder and Lasting Memories

In June 2025, I travelled to Bergen, Norway, to take part in the Holberg Week as the recipient of the Nils Klim Prize. It was a profoundly inspiring and intense experience, filled with academic exchange, celebration and unexpected moments of...

21.05.2025 Maiju Auranen

Alumna insights – Work of a researcher and a judge

I am Maiju Auranen, an alumna (Master of Laws, 2015) and a doctoral researcher at the University of Turku law faculty. Currently, I work in the Turku Court of Appeal as a junior judge (asessori/assessor). In this text I want...