We aim to train highly educated, experienced and socially responsible legal experts. Our teaching is based on research and we encourage our students to become critical and independent thinkers.
Faculty of Law does not offer degree studies in English language on the Bachelor's or Master's level at the moment. The last intake to the Master´s Degree Programme Law and Information Society was in 2020. It is possible to study for a doctoral degree in English in the Doctoral Programme in Law.
Non-degree students can study the numerous Turku Law School courses. Two universities in Turku have combined the selection of law courses together and organize a wide range of high-quality academic law courses in English. The Turku Law School courses are open to both exchange and visiting students as well as degree students of the cooperative institutions.
The studies are arranged in the newly renovated faculty building Calonia, where we have excellent teaching premises, library and many possibilities for students to study together.
Exchange studies
Degree studies
Disciplines
Person in charge: Janne Salminen
Commercial law comprises in reality several diversified branches of law, including intellectual property, competition, international trade, internet and company law – each with their own general doctrines of law and developments. The basic course on commercial law covers all these in a compact format of 7 ECTS (in Finnish). There are also specialization courses (12 ECTS) under commercial law taught in Finnish. In addition to the courses taught in Finnish, there are several courses under commercial law taught in English, especially intellectual property and internet law -related courses. The Faculty of Law also has an English language Law and Information Society (LIS) master progamme (duration two years). Many of the LIS-courses are open for foreign exchange students visiting the Faculty, as well as for the students studying the Finnish language master programme in law.
Person in charge: Tuomas Mylly
Person in charge: Veli-Pekka Viljanen
Person in charge: Mikko Rajavuori
Person in charge: Tatu Hyttinen
Person in charge: Aleksi Heinilä
European law focuses in particular on the law of the European Union.
Core areas for teaching include the structure, sources, and specific features of EU law, as well as the principles defining the relationship between EU law, international law, and the law of the Member States. The institutional structure of the EU, legal remedies, and the status of fundamental rights in the European integration processes are also given particular emphasis in the teaching. As for substantive law, the various aspects of internal market law feature heavily in the curriculum.
Person in charge: Jukka Snell
Equality law examines justice, equality and inequality in a broad sense. As such, its researchers investigate how supranational and national legal rules and principles can create and uphold both societal inequality and equality. In addition to this, we research how legal tools can be used as a means of opposing inequality.
Person in charge: Daniela Alaattinoglu
- marital, family and inheritance law
- child law
- guardianship law
- international family and inheritance law (incl. the basic doctrines of private international law
- comparative family and inheritance law, especially comparative (marital) property law
Person in charge: Tuulikki Mikkola
Person in charge: Jaakko Ossa
Intellectual property and information law comprises traditional intellectual property law (copyright, patents, trademarks, designs, trade secrets etc.) and other regulation of informational resources, such as rights to data and regulation of competition and internet intermediaries. The basic course on intellectual property and information law covers these aspects in a compact format of 5 ECTS (in Finnish). There are also specialization courses (12 ECTS) under the discipline taught in Finnish. In addition to the courses taught in Finnish, there are several related courses taught in English, especially intellectual property and information law -related courses.
Person in charge: Tuomas Mylly
Person in charge: Outi Korhonen
Person in charge: Raimo Siltala
Persons in charge: Annika Rosin
Law of obligations covers a wide variety of private law transactions. Contracts, torts and rules relating to debt reside at its core.
The subject produces the basic course in the law of obligations, three specialization courses. In odd years, the Contract Law Theories and Practice course will be on the schedule, while Tort Law in Theory and Practice takes place during the even years. Contract, Commerce, and Production saw its first run in 2018, while the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Experience I has been on the schedule for years. The advanced studies in the law of obligations commence yearly in the fall term. The subject organizes a number of elective courses, among them the popular Enterprise Contracts in Practice (taught by practicing attorneys).
Person in charge: Mika Viljanen
Person in charge: Mia Korpiola
Person in charge: Tuomas Hupli
Person in charge: Teemu Juutilainen
Person in charge: Anne Alvesalo-Kuusi