Johanna
Niemi
Docent, Laws
Professor of Procedural Law
ASLA: Actors, Structures and Law research project 2025-2019 - group is still active. https://blogit.utu.fi/asla/
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Areas of expertise
Procedural law
insolvency
criminal procedure
law and gender, violence against women
Biography
Johanna Niemi (Niemi-Kiesiläinen) joined the faculty in Turku 2014 as professor of procedural law. She was Minna Canth Academy Professor 2015-2019. Johanna Niemi holds LLM, Lis.L and JD all from University of Helsinki and trained on the bench in Rovaniemi district court in 1984. She has worked at University of Helsinki 1985-2004 and as vice dean responsible for teaching (2010-2013). Between 2004 and 2010 she worked as professor of law at the Umeå University, and at National Research Institute for Legal Policy. In 1997–1998 she was Fulbright scholar at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Niemi has held several expert functions in the academic community. She was member of the Scientific Committee of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (2013-2018) and member of the Finnish Academy Committee on Cultural and Social Sciences (2016-2018). She has evaluated research at the universities of Uppsala and Örebro. She is consulted as an expert in the Committees of the Parliament and by the Ministries. Niemi has been honored as the teacher of the year by students’ organization Pykälä in 2000. She has been the supervisor of 12 doctoral theses. Johanna thinks that the most interesting challenge to legal thinking comes from the feminist legal studies that have a close connection to gender studies. She thinks that all lawyers should be familiar with the main ideas about the importance of gender in our thinking and society, including the legal sphere.
Teaching
Procedural law
Challenging the neutrality of law
Doctoral studies, methods course
Research
Niemi has defended her doctoral thesis in 1995 in personal insolvency law. She is a founding member of the Collaborative Research Network of comparative consumer insolvency law with professors Bill Withford and Iain Ramsay. In 2011-2012 she participated in the World Bank personal insolvency projects. Her research interests include criminal procedure, violence against women and human rights. She led several research project analyzing the discourses on gender violence in legal contexts. Her book Criminal Procedure and Violence in Intimate Relationship was published (in Finnish) in 2004. She has analysed the liberal undertone of the Finnish rape law in several articles. She has been co-editor of several books, including Responsible Selves. Women in the Nordic Legal Culture (2001) and International Law and Violence against Women: Europe and the Istanbul Convention (2020). In 2013 she evaluated the Finnish sex purchase ban with LLM Jussi Aaltonen.
Publications
Back to Family Values: Xi Jinping’s Embracement of Confucianism and its Effect on Chinese Women (2022)
Retfaerd: Nordisk Juridisk Tidsskrift
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Työväkivalta on monikasvoinen käsite (2021)
Haaste
(Artikkeli ammattilehdessä tai kirjoitus ammatillisessa blogissa (D1))
Väkivallalla uhkaamiseen pitää puuttua myös lähisuhteissa (2021)
Helsingin Sanomat
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))
Frivillighet och sexualbrott: En systematisk analys (2021)
Tidskrift Utgiven Av Juridiska Föreningen i Finland
(Kirjoitus tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (B1))
Oikeudenkäynnin julkisuus (2021)
(Kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa (B2))Pekka Haavisto, perustuslakivaliokunta ja oikeudenmukainen oikeudenkäynti (2021)
Perustuslakiblogi
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))
Oikeusvaltiossa ihmisten oikeudet turvataan (2021)
ASLA-blogi/blog(utu.fi)
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))