One of the traditions of the Institute for Law and Informatics is organizing the international summer school in Rovaniemi. The summer schools are aimed at the degree and exchange students and other international students at our university. Traditionally, the summer school takes place each year at the end of August. However, the summer school is not going to be organized in 2019.
Every four years our institute organizes the Nordic Conference on Legal Informatics. The conference and the related workshop for postgraduate students was previously held in Rovaniemi 18–20 November 2015.
The Nordic Conference on Legal Informatics 2019 will take place in Rovaniemi in November 2019. More information about this event will be updated here during the spring and the summer.
We have assembled a comprehensive collection of interesting and useful links that offer help for legal studies and research. Under the section Links you can find legal sources from different countries, databases of international organisations, legal journals, and much more!
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Faculty of Law offers a wide range of courses related to legal informatics, also in English. For example, you can complete the following courses:
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On our pages you can also find a sampling of recommended literature and articles concerning legal informatics.
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By the order of the Ministry of Justice, the Institute for Law and Informatics and Paradigma maintain the Finlex database Case Law in Legal Literature (FOKI), which contains all the legal cases recorded in published legal literature. FOKI is an excellent, time-saving tool for researchers and students alike.
Each year we go through the legal literature published in Finland, as well as some legal journals, for the FOKI database. The legal cases in the database include judgments issued by the Courts of Appeal, Supreme Court, Supreme Administrative Court, EC/EU Court of Justice, European Court of Human Rights, Labour Council, Labour Court, and the judicial department of the Senate of Finland, as well as the statements and reports of the Constitutional Law Committee.
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Research and teaching at the Institute for Law and Informatics is carried out in cooperation with international partners. Along with our other operations, we organise the annual International Summer School of Legal Informatics and maintain the Case Law in Legal Literature (FOKI) database of Finlex. We have also produced several reports for the ministries and participated in international projects, such as the NETSO project (2010–2013).
Legal informatics has been practiced at the Faculty of Law since the mid-80s. Cooperation with Nordic researchers of legal informatics started already in 1984, spreading to wider international cooperation in 1987. At the beginning of the 1990s the initial planning of the institute begun, leading to its establishment as an internal division of the Faculty of Law in 1992. Professor Ahti Saarenpää was appointed as the director of the institute. Since 2015 the position has been occupied by Professor Rauno Korhonen.
Director of Institute for Law and Informatics Tel. +358 40 4884 016 firstname.lastname (at) ulapland.fi
Research of Rauno Korhonen in the LaCRIS portal >
Honorary Chair of Institute for Law and Informatics Professor of Private Law (emeritus) Tel. +358 40 4844 038 firstname.lastname (at) ulapland.fi
Publications of Ahti Saarenpää >
Project Secretary Updating the FOKI database Tel. +358 40 484 4006 Office: C-wing, 2nd floor, room 230