Faculty of Law

Altogether there are about 2,500 students at the Faculty of Law. The study environment at the Faculty combines a strong research orientation with intensive links with business and society at large. The Faculty receives about 120 exchange students annually, through the Erasmus, Nordplus and bilateral exchange agreements, and the same number of Finnish law students go abroad for a corresponding period of one or two semesters.

The Faculty of Law in Helsinki Most Finnish law students take the Finnish Master of Laws degree (in Finnish oikeustieteen maisteri) although some take only the lower academic Bachelor’s degree (oikeusnotaari). The Faculty also offers a postgraduate research degree, a Doctor of Laws degree, as well as the further education program International Master of Laws Diploma Program in English, commencing in autumn 2011.

There are two research institutes attached to the Faculty: the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights and the Institute of International Economic Law (KATTI). The Faculty also hosts two Centres of Excellence, (CoE) Global Governance Research and (CoE) Foundations of European Law Polity Research; and several Graduate Schools, Law in a Changing World (LCW), Foundations of European Law and Innovation Incentives and the Regulatory Infrastructure (INNOCENT).