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Research Seminar in Legal Studies 2018

OPENINGS - Research Seminar in Legal Studies

14-16 March 2018
University of Lapland

Thank you for participating and see you next year!

 



”Don't bring out the General in you! … Be the Pink Panther and your loves will be like the wasp and the orchid, the cat and the baboon.”
¬– Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari

Call for papers
Film director Jean-Luc Godard once told in an interview: “I must have an idea and then discover it. … I start with an idea but I don’t know if it’s a beginning of a story. It’s what Giacometti called an opening.” In the spirit of Godard, the theme of the Research Seminar in March will be Openings. This should fit researchers at any stage: if you are at the beginning, come and tell us what is your research idea; if you are more advanced, tell us how you started discovering it.

Credits for Doctoral Students

By way of participating in the Research Seminar; by writing a ten-page paper for it; and by giving a 15 minutes presentation on the basis of it, you will get the required Theory (5 credits) or Method (5 credits) sections for your study record (Faculty of Law.) These belong to the curriculum of your post-graduate studies. Please send the paper to paradigma@ulapland.fi by March 12.

On the structure of doctoral studies, see Postgraduate degrees.

On the Theme

“Openings” as a theme looks for the momentum that puts research in motion. At start, every researcher usually has some problematic thing at hand, something that one does not understand. One simply does not know what to think about it. Researcher feels confused and puzzled, but also an urge to probe and explore. That condition generates openings: problematic ideas to be presented, in the first place, as tentative and temporary proposals. This is what we call openings.

Openings get science and research going, which may finally result in discoveries of truth, even if the initial openings will have turned out to be mistaken during the process. This process, generated by problematic ideas, has been called a game of conjectures and refutations. Those games have been presented as the necessary condition for the advancement of scientific knowledge in general. We welcome you to present your openings in that kind of games!

So, please come and tell us, what is your confuse, what is your idea?

Alternative Theme: Methods of Legal Research

In case you would rather like to think about questions of method, either in general or as related to your own research, also presentations dealing with these are welcome. You may, for instance, focus on some scholarly work that has, in your opinion, advanced the ways and means of conducting legal research. You are free to choose, here are just a couple of examples in the Finnish context: Aulis Aarnio, Rational as Reasonable; Martti Koskenniemi, From Apology to Utopia; Thomas Wilhelmsson, Critical Studies in Private Law; Kaarlo Tuori, European Constitutionalism.
Information and Contacts

More information about the Research Seminar and its program will appear on this Internet page.

The seminar is open to anyone interested and participants from other faculties are also welcome. 

Please address your inquiries to Iiris Kestilä, paradigma@ulapland.fi
The person responsible for the seminar on the whole is Samuli Hurri, samuli.hurri@ulapland.fi

Programme
Program
Venue: Rovaniemi, University of Lapland, LS 19

Wednesday 14.3.
9:15 Welcome, Jukka Similä, Vice-Dean (Research)
9:30 Moderator Jukka Similä. Professor Soili Nystén-Haarala & Senior Lecturer Kirsi-Maria Halonen, on contract law and public sector
11:00 Lunch Break
12:15 Moderator Assistant Professor Mirva Lohiniva-Kerkelä. Professor Kaarina Määttä, Critical Moments in the Process of Conducting Doctoral Research from the Point of View of Supervision. Comments by Doctoral Researchers Kaisa-Maria Kimmel and Veera Salokannel.
13:45 Coffee Break
14:00 Presentations by researchers. Moderator Mikko Vuorenpää.
Jenna Laurikkala: Virkasalaisuusrikostunnusmerkistö - blankorangaistussäännös?
Roosa Leväinen: Palvelusrikos ja palvelusvelvollisuus
Mikko Lindroos: Sosiaaliset oikeudet perustuslakivaliokunnan tulkintakäytännössä
Sanni Sädevirta: Syrjintäkysymykset työsopimusta päätettäessä 
16:00 Closing of the day
18:00 Get together (Sauna, Ahkiomaantie 17 A, 96300 Rovaniemi)
Thursday 15.3.
9:15 Moderator Anne Nuorgam. Professor Matti Nojonen & Senior Lecturer Samuli Hurri, on theory of practice
11:00 Lunch Break
12:15 Presentations by researchers. Moderator Anssi Kärki.
Jyrki Kaiponen: Metodologiset lähestymistavat oikeustieteellisessä tutkimuksessa
Suvi Lamminpää: Design-representaatiot oikeudellisessa suunnittelussa ja tutkimuksessa
13:45 Coffee Break
14:00 Presentations by researchers. Moderator Juha Karhu.
Tiitus Hiivanainen: Jutun palauttaminen oikeudenkäyntivirheen perusteella
Martti Kallio: Avauksia sotavuosien 1939-1944 poliisitoimintaa koskevan tutkimukseni aiheen löytämiseen ja työstämiseen
Niina Kallio-Nordlund: Vapaa todistusteoria totuuden näkökulmasta
15:30 Kahvitauko
15:45 Presentations by researchers. Moderator Ilari Hovila.
Alina Lehtonen: Ympäristöongelmasta kaikki lähtee
Veera Salokannel: Ekologinen kompensaatio
Kiira Viinamäki: Voiko ympäristön turmelemiseen syyllistyä, vaikka huolehtisi ympäristöstä myönnettyä ympäristölupaa paremmin?
17:15 Closing of the day
Friday 16.3.
9:15 Moderator Juhana Riekkinen. Justice Niilo Jääskinen & Dr. Tomi Tuominen, on the practice of the Court of Justice of the European Union
11:00 Lunch Break
12:15 Presentations by researchers. Moderator Mikko Huttunen.
Kirsi Huotari: Arvopaperimarkkinarikokset
Pekka Ihalainen: Valikointiin perustuva verotuksen toimittaminen
Eelis Paukku: Valtiontuet - juridiikkaa ja taloutta
Tuukka Vähätalo: Eurooppaoikeuden vastaisten kansallisten tuomioiden lopullisuus - tutkimusidean syntyminen ja alkuvaiheen kehittely
14:15 Closing of the day

On Friday, at 15:00, starts the two-day National Research seminar of Criminal and Procedural Law and Criminology, visit events homepage.  
Registration
Please register your participation on 15 February at latest through email to paradigma@ulapland.fi