The International Summer School is arranged by the Institute for Law and Informatics of the Faculty of Law at the University of Lapland. It focuses this year on the transition of the information society into a web-based society. The Summer School takes place on 26–30 August.
The International Summer School of Legal Informatics 2013 is dedicated to Wolfgang Mincke, Doctor Honoris Causa of the Faculty of Law at the University of Lapland, as his 70th anniversary event. Professor, Doctor of Law Wolfgang Mincke is an internationally renowned jurisprudent with long-standing ties to Finnish law. He has lectured at the University of Lapland since 1990 in the areas of legal informatics, comparative law, property law, and legal Latin.
International legal experts are invited to give lectures at the Summer School. This year, there are speakers from e.g. Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Tanzania, and Lithuania. The speakers of the University of Lapland are Professors Ahti Saarenpää, Rauno Korhonen, and Antti Syväjärvi. In addition, a presentation will be given by Dr. Tuomas Pöysti, Auditor General of the National Audit Office of Finland, who has attained his doctorate in the Faculty of Law at the University of Lapland. The speakers also include three foreign postgraduate students from the faculty. The majority of the Summer School participants are studying in the Faculty of Law.
The Summer School is arranged in English, and it is meant for all those interested in the development of the information society.
The University of Lapland has hosted summer schools of legal informatics since the beginning of the 1990s.
Summer School programme