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The Erik Castrén Institute (ECI), housed at the University of Helsinki Faculty of Law, promotes research on public international law, transnational and European law and human rights from broad, heterodox and critical perspectives.

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Helsinki Summer Seminar 2025 "Re-thinking the Public/Private Divide", 25-29 August 2025

💡 Whether you’re already signed up or just discovering us now, there’s still time to register and be part of this vibrant learning community.
👉 www.lyyti.in/HSS2025

Stay tuned for more speaker highlights in the coming days!

#SummerSeminar #SpeakerSpotlight #InternationalLaw #IndigenousPeople

24.07.2025 12:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kicking off our #HelsinkiSummerSeminar speaker series: Dorothée Cambou (@helsinki.fi), whose talk “Indigenous Peoples and Business: Rights, Responsibilities, and Resistance” brings a fresh and thoughtful perspective to the discussion on the public/private divide. #HSS36 #PublicPrivateDivide

24.07.2025 12:43 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

The post "Legal Pluralism in Practice?" by ECI researchers Sebastian Machado and Paolo Amorosa is now published on @voelkerrechtsblog.org. Focusing on Colombia, they explore how different legal orders interact in practice.

24.07.2025 12:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘WARNING. Confidential documents. Not to be disclosed to anyone’ (Part 1) Päivi Leino-Sandberg (University of Helsinki)   Photo credit : Cancillería Ecuador via Wikimedia Commons   When conducting rese...

A critical view of EU Commission practice on access to documents, by Prof Päivi Leino-Sandberg

Part 1 - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/warn...

Part 2 - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/warn...

27.06.2025 08:21 👍 16 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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Emeritusprofessori Koskenniemi: Yhdysvaltojen iskut Iraniin ovat yksiselitteisesti laittomia Europarlamentaarikko Li Andersson (vas.) sanoo, ettei Suomen ulkopoliittinen johto uskalla tuomita kansainvälisen oikeuden loukkauksia, jos loukkaajana on Yhdysvallat tai Israel.

yle.fi/a/74-2016911...

23.06.2025 18:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Professori Päivi Leino-Sandbergin johtamassa monitieteisessä (In)Security and Democracy -hankkeessa tutkitaan, miten demokraattiset yhteiskunnat voivat säilyä avoimina ja moniarvoisina tilanteessa, jossa pelon politiikka hallitsee julkista keskustelua yhä vahvemmin.

23.06.2025 18:01 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

(In)Security and Democracy, a multidisciplinary research project led by Professor Päivi Leino-Sandberg, sets out to explore a fundamental question: How can democratic societies remain open, deliberative, and pluralist when the politics of fear increasingly dominate public discourse?

23.06.2025 18:00 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The EU Commission’s drift towards authoritarianism As a researcher, following the Ursula von der Leyen presidency demonstrates its attitude towards participatory democracy has been a journey from disbelief to frustration, and then to worry and anger, warns professor Päivi Leino-Sandberg.

As a researcher, following the Ursula von der Leyen presidency demonstrates its attitude towards participatory democracy has been a journey from disbelief to frustration, and then to worry and anger, warns professor Päivi Leino-Sandberg.

13.05.2025 08:28 👍 13 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 2
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Zur Zukunft der EU-Kohäsionspolitik diskutieren Mercedes Caballero Fernández ‪@haciendagob.bsky.social‬, Päivi Leino-Sandberg @helsinkiupress.bsky.social‬, PeterBerkowitz ‪@ec.europa.eu‬, Riccardo Crescenzi (LSE) & ZEW-Ökonom Zareh Asatryan bei der Public Finance-Konferenz.
zew.de/publicfinanc...

22.05.2025 13:14 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Here's Päivi's Op-ed on the difficulties of building European democracy given the Commission's profound lack of appreciation of how democratic governance should work. 👇

15.05.2025 08:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Pfizergate case: ‘There will be very little transparency left once von der Leyen is done’ Next week, judges in Luxembourg will decide on the Pfizergate case into European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s text messages with Pfizer's CEO. Will transparency prevail, and the texts f...

Next week, EU judges will rule on the Pfizergate scandal: did the secret texts between von der Leyen and Pfizer’s CEO vanish, or were they never meant to be seen? We spoke to legal scholar Päivi Leino-Sandberg: for her, this case is about more than texts. It’s a battle for transparency.

09.05.2025 05:51 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
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Helsinki Summer Seminar 2025 "Re-thinking the Public/Private Divide", 25-29 August 2025

Register for the Seminar at www.lyyti.in/HSS2025
The 36th Helsinki Summer Seminar is hosted by the Law Faculty @helsinki.fi organized by the @eci.bsky.social supported by the @erc.europa.eu PRIVIGO project

29.04.2025 14:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The 36th Helsinki Summer Seminar 'Re-thinking Public/Private Divide' hosts an excellent group of speakers, including @jdamh.bsky.social @mjdurkee.bsky.social, and Elisabetta Morlino, in Helsinki 25-29 August 2025. Read more about the Seminar www.helsinki.fi/en/erik-cast... Registration link below

29.04.2025 14:44 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian uudet jäsenet 2025 - Tiedeakatemia Suomalaiseen Tiedeakatemiaan on valittu yhteensä 39 uutta jäsentä. Tiedeakatemian jäseniksi kutsutaan ansioituneita tieteenharjoittajia. Uudet valitut jäsenet edustavat laajalti suomalaista tieteen ke...

Onnea Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian uudet jäsenet
Vincenzo Cerullo
Anu Kantele-Häkkinen
Veli-Matti Kerminen
Satu Mustjoki
Ari Pekka Mähönen
Pekka Pankka
Kirsi Pietiläinen
Mari Pihlatie
Titus Hjelm
Päivi Leino-Sandberg
Eeva Luhtakallio
Sami Moisio
Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Marja Vierros
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29.04.2025 11:10 👍 26 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
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The EU and the Aarhus Convention – taking stock of the Union’s progress towards Environmental Democracy The Aarhus Convention continues to be widely celebrated as a beacon of environmental democracy and has played a considerable role in advancing the notion of procedural environmental rights in the…

Please join us in Brussels in September to discuss the EU's (slow) progress towards environmental democracy! We will also present some of the research conducted in the @2035legitimacy.bsky.social project.

2035legitimacy.fi/the-eu-and-t...

09.04.2025 13:52 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
International Organizations Engaging the World | Public international law

Available in August:
www.cambridge.org/id/universit...

08.04.2025 04:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ennennäkemätöntä menoa. Martti Koskenniemi ei tiedä, selviääkö Yhdysvaltain oikeusvaltio. Kun Martti Koskenniemi puhuu Yhdysvaltain tilanteesta, hän ei erota oikeusnormiston kriisiä poliittisesta kriisistä. Ne ovat samaa kuvaa.

www.uusijuttu.fi/historie/sR3...

01.04.2025 04:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Koskenniemi kiittelee Stubbin malttia Trumpin suhteen – ”Olemme tottuneet ulko­poliittiseen tekopyhyyteen” Kansainvälisen oikeuden asiantuntija Martti Koskenniemi arvioi lauantain Ykkösaamussa, että presidentti Donald Trump pyrkii hajottamaan Euroopan Yhydsvaltain ja Venäjän etupiireihin.

yle.fi/a/74-20152594

31.03.2025 06:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ykkösaamun vieraana on kansain­välisen oikeuden emeritus­professori Martti Koskenniemi – mitä haluat kysyä häneltä? Donald Trump koettelee laillisuuden rajoja sekä koti- että ulkomailla. Kuinka paljon valtaa Yhdysvaltain presidentillä on, ja onko Suomenkin hellimä sääntöpohjainen maailmanjärjestys enää muisto vain?

yle.fi/a/74-2015218...

29.03.2025 06:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Quote from our published article by author Päivi Leino-Sandberg: 
“The leaked drafts on the EU’s next MFF verify that the Commission’s plan mimics the features of the NGEU. This model is ill-suited to addressing geopolitical challenges facing the EU today.”

Quote from our published article by author Päivi Leino-Sandberg: “The leaked drafts on the EU’s next MFF verify that the Commission’s plan mimics the features of the NGEU. This model is ill-suited to addressing geopolitical challenges facing the EU today.”

Leaked Commission documents on the EU’s next Multiannual Financial Framework are out!

PÄIVI LEINO-SANDBERG explains how they mirror the NGEU—and why that might be a problem:

verfassungsblog.de/mff_ngeu_lea...

18.03.2025 16:23 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Tutkijoilta ei voi vaatia, että he myötäilevät vallitsevaa politiikkaa | Helsingin yliopisto Suomen hallitus esitti lakimuutosta, joka olisi vaatinut Suomen Akatemian rahoittamilta tutkimuksilta sopusointua maamme ulko- ja turvallisuuspolitiikan kanssa. Tällainen sensuuri ei kuulu demokratiaa...

Trump lopettaa nyt tutkimushankkeita tyrmäävää vauhtia, poliittisin perustein. Suomessa tutkijat huolestuivat hiljattain lakiehdotuksesta, joka tekisi tilaa samantapaiselle sensuurille. Martti Koskenniemi kirjoittaa aiheesta Yliopisto-lehden pääkirjoituksessa. www.helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/y...

07.03.2025 06:11 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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Euroopan syyttäjänvirasto tutkii epäilyjä EU-tukien 2,8 miljardin euron väärinkäytöstä – raportti vaatii lisää valvontaa EU-tilintarkastajien mukaan koronatukien valvonta ei vieläkään ole kunnossa. Systeemissä on valuvikoja, sanoo professori.

The financial accountability of the RRF suffers from basic design failures, says Päivi -S.
yle.fi/a/74-20148227

11.03.2025 05:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
'70 Years of EU Law' -The Politics of a Professional Language <span>This article is an updated version of the key note organised at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg in January 2024 to discuss and celebrate ‘70 Years

Leino-Sandberg, Päivi, '70 Years of EU Law' -The Politics of a Professional Language (February 04, 2025). Helsinki Legal Studies Research Paper No. 89, Available at @ssrn.bsky.social : ssrn.com/abstract=512... or dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

04.03.2025 07:18 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Lukijan mielipide | Kunniattomaan valehtelijaan ei kannata luottaa Ensimmäinen johtopäätös on, ettei kunniattomaan valehtelijaan kannata luottaa. Yhdysvalloista voi olla hyötyä, mutta sen varaan ei voi rakentaa. Se ei lähetä joukkoja Viroon, Puolaan tai Suomeen.

A dishonorable liar is not to be trusted, writes Martti Koskenniemi.
www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar...

20.02.2025 14:18 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The deadline for the abstract submission is tomorrow- if you are working on various questions around older persons' rights, apply to present your work in the International conference on March, 20-21. We have received some wonderful applications and are looking forward to the insightful discussions.

14.02.2025 08:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Who can guard the guardian?

When it comes to transparency, the second UvdL Commission seems to continue where her first Commission left off. On 4 December 2024 the new Commission updated its Rules of Procedure.
@2035legitimacy.bsky.social

www.europeanlawblog.eu/pub/aehrtxyf...

07.02.2025 08:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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To catch up with the US and China, the EU needs massive investment.

Problem is, the funding scheme proposed by the #DraghiReport hardly finds a basis in the treaties.

PETER LINDSETH and PÄIVI LEINO-SANDBERG intervene.

verfassungsblog.de/draghi-repor...

12.09.2024 06:57 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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The House Always Wins. A Systematic Analysis of CJEU Case Law Relating to the Economic and Monetary Union (2010-2020) European Papers

In the forthcoming issue of EP: 'The House Always Wins. A Systematic Analysis of CJEU Case Law Relating to the Economic and Monetary Union (2010-2020)' by Antti Ronkainen, Anna W Ghavanini and Päivi Leino-Sandberg.

27.01.2025 10:58 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Crisis, Reinterpretation, and the Rule of Law: Repurposing ‘Cohesion’ as a General EU Spending Power - Hague Journal on the Rule of Law The EU Treaties contain no provision akin to the clause in the United States Constitution empowering spending in the ‘general Welfare’, i.e., for the general public good. Nonetheless, supporters of a ...

Interesting EU ROL article - Lindseth, P.L., Leino-Sandberg, P. Crisis, Reinterpretation, and the Rule of Law: Repurposing ‘Cohesion’ as a General EU Spending Power. Hague J Rule Law 16, 587–610 (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s408...

25.09.2024 08:22 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0