The Faculty of Law at the University of Helsinki www.helsinki.fi/en/faculty-of-law is the leading Finnish institute of legal research and education. Some of the degrees awarded by the Faculty are completed at its bilingual (Finnish and Swedish) Vaasa Unit of Legal Studies www.helsinki.fi/en/faculty-of-law/faculty/vaasa-unit-of-legal-studies. The Faculty’s mission is to train qualified, ethically responsible legal professionals for both the Finnish and international markets through high-quality international research and research-based teaching. The Faculty offers undergraduate degrees in Finnish, Swedish and English as well as a bilingual degree in Swedish and Finnish. The Faculty has a teaching and research staff of around 130 people and 2,400 undergraduate and postgraduate students.
The education provided by the Faculty of Law to Finnish- and Swedish-speaking undergraduate students is divided into the Bachelor’s Programme in Law and the Master’s Programme in Law. The appointee to the present position will provide teaching in both programmes. Studies in the Bachelor’s Programme in Law are organised into the following thematic areas
The Bachelor of Laws degree is similarly divided into thematic areas, with the teaching provided in them always encompassing several branches of law.
The appointee is expected to provide teaching in at least two thematic areas or, if the appointee’s expertise focuses on a single thematic field, to provide teaching in more than one field of law. The position may also include the provision of teaching in other courses included in the degree, degree studies in the University’s other disciplines, the Faculty’s international master’s programmes and in the Vaasa Unit of Legal Studies. The Faculty offers teaching in Finnish, Swedish and English. The appointee’s duties include student assessment in all these languages.
The successful applicant may be appointed to a permanent professorship or a fixed-term associate/assistant professorship (tenure track system), depending on his or her qualifications and career stage. Further information on the career path and a description of the tenure track model at the University of Helsinki, please see https://www.helsinki.fi/en/university/careers-at-the-university-of-helsi…
An appointee to the position of assistant/associate professor within the tenure track system shall hold a doctoral degree, have the ability to conduct independent scholarly work and have the teaching skills necessary for the position. In addition, applicants for assistant/associate professorships shall demonstrate their capability and motivation as regards an academic career through publications and other means.
An appointee to a full professorship shall hold a doctoral degree and possess top-level scholarly qualifications in the field of private law and experience in the supervision of scientific research, along with the ability to provide top-level research-based teaching as well as to supervise theses and dissertations. In addition, the appointee shall present documentation of international cooperation in the field of research that he or she represents. Holders of professorships shall also have the skills necessary to serve as academic leaders.
Particular consideration will be given to applicants with extensive expertise in private law. The ability to provide teaching on the general doctrines of property law and law of obligations will be considered an asset.
Applicants are requested to enclose with their applications a single PDF file that includes the following documents in English:
The University of Helsinki is an international academic community with more than 40,000 students and members of staff. It operates on four campuses in Helsinki and in 9 other localities in Finland. The University’s 11 faculties are home to many departments. Furthermore, the University accommodates several independent research-oriented institutes, multidisciplinary research networks and campus units, as well as units attending to duties of a national authority. The University of Helsinki enjoys great visibility and influence all around Helsinki and in the rest of Finland.
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