Northern Legal Lights (NOLLI)

Northern Legal Lights (NOLLI) is a research community for all legal researchers (including all doctoral researchers) in the Faculty of Law. The aim is to promote and spread high-level legal research by improving researchers’ skills, supporting researchers’ well-being and enhancing visibility both inside and outside the community. 

NOLLI offers possibilities for researchers to discuss methodological, theoretical and topical questions as well as informal coffee-meetings. E.g. following activities are organized:

• Academic Reading Circle
• Research hour & coffee-meeting
• Internal seminars (1/year, in autumn)
• Open webinars (1/year, in spring) 

Research community coordinators:

Postdoctoral researcher Jaakko Markus

Doctoral researcher Saara Tuulari

Emails: firstname.lastname@ulapland.fi

Towards a fairer and more coherent system of administrative sanctions (SYSADMIN)

Funded by Research Council of Finland, 2023–2027, decision no. 357647
Lead: Professor Mikko Vuorenpää

The research project explores administrative sanctions: legal reactions used instead of criminal penalties in many fields of law. For instance, corporations participating in a cartel may be liable to pay administrative fines of hundreds of millions of euros.

In the EU and in Finland, the number of administrative sanctions has soared without an overarching theory of their fairness. We aim at developing such a theory based on European case-law and other legal sources.

The project also sheds light on the origins and functions of administrative sanctions. The project will produce research that is useful for agencies, courts and legislators.

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Enhancing competition and efficiency in public procurements (Comp_Eff_PP)

Funded by Research Council of Finland, 2021‒2025, decision no. 340042
Lead: Ari Hyytinen, Hanken School of Economics

In this project, we examine how efficiently public procurement (PP) auctions work and look for opportunities to suggest improvements to their design, regulation and monitoring.

It has been estimated that in Finland, spending in PP amounts to 30–40 billion euros per year. This implies that even a small increase in the efficiency of PP would translate into large cost savings.

Our work provides research-based evidence for the implementation of Finland's new national strategy for the development of PP markets.

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Roosa Leväinen: Oikeudenmukainen oikeudenkäynti sotilaskurinpitomenettelyssä

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