Soili Nysten-Haarala

Soili Nystén-Haarala works as Professor of Commercial Law, especially Russian Law since 2013. Since 2017 she works as the Dean of the Law Faculty. Since 2003 Ms. Nystén-Haarala has led several international and multi-disciplinary research projects funded by the Academy of Finland, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (Tekes) and Finnish Cultural Foundation. Her field of interest covers international business law, proactive contracting and legal design, Russian law and governance of natural resources. She is a Fulbright Scholar (Fulbright Arctic Initiative, 2nd cohort, 2018-2019; https://www.cies.org/fulbright-arctic-initiative/2018-2019-scholars). Since the FAI program Soili has done research on sustainable economies in the Arctic, focusing on risks. She has numerous publications (about 100) on Russian law, natural resource governance as well as on contract law and proactive law.

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