Law, Society, and Power

Law, Society, and Power is one of the four focal areas of research at the Faculty of Law.

Law is a influential societal discourse which should be studied in its relevant contexts, as these determine how law is made, changed, and enforced. Law is intimately connected with power and force.

The focal area Law, Society, and Power challenges the conventional legal discourses and the ways traditional apologetic jurisprudence understands law. Law and legal phenomena are investigated critically in their social, historical, political, cultural, and economic contexts, employing a wide variety of methods and approaches. This focal area includes theoretical, empirical, interdisciplinary, and comparative approaches, as well as the internal critique of law.

The current strong themes under scrutiny are:

  • criminal justice
  • law-making
  • migration
  • law and gender
  • different forms of victimhood and violence
  • the development of the Finnish legal culture

Publications of the Faculty of Law

Study on all mandatory rules applicable to contractual obligations in contracts for sales of tangible goods sold at a distance and, in particular online (2016)

Thomas Rainer Schmitt, Krustera Desislava, Evyenia Kelly Epaminondou, Ramona Livera, Marissa Christodoulidou, Marcos Papadopoulos, Elena Christodoulou, David Elischer, Reiner Schulze, Peter Gjortler, Irene Kull, Danae Vardavaki, Esther Arroyo Amayuelas, Jaume Tarabal Bosch, Mika Viljanen, Jutta Seppänen, Nathalie Martial-Braz, Natacha Sauphanor -Brouillaud, Marko Baretić, Erdös Istvan, G.Brian Hutchinson, Cristina Amato, Tomas Mielauskas, Cécile Pellegrini, Peter Gjortler, Ivan Sammut, Marco LOOS, Joasia Luzak, Monika Jagielska, Gustavo Cerqueira, Juanita Goicovici, Joel Samuelsson, Petra Weingerl, Monika Jurcova, Christian W. Twigg Flesner
(Published development or research report or study (D4))
Research at the Faculty of Law
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