Henri Hannula FT, MA: Ruling Elite Coalitions and Legal Institutions in Nineteenth Century Latin America and South-East Asia
Since 2025, I have been working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Rule of Law Centre. After completing my PhD in early modern history at the University of Helsinki, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the Academy of Finland project, Comparing Early Modern Colonial Laws.
My current research focuses on institutional economic history, state-building, economic growth, the development of legal institutions, legal modernization in the nineteenth century, and the impact of colonialism in societies. My primary areas of interest are Latin America and Southeast Asia, with a particular emphasis on Brazil and Indonesia.
Helsinki Rule of Law Forum was a research community studying the rule of law in the European Union. Funded by the Government of Finland, its research was organized by members of the Faculty of Law of the University of Helsinki. A broad network of experts from academia and European institutions support its research initiatives and participate in the work of the research community.
The research project ran from February 2021 to April 2022. Its activities included workshops, expert seminars at the premises of the University of Helsinki and online, an edited volume to be published in English with an international publisher, other publications, and a final report in Finnish submitted by the research group members to the Government of Finland in spring 2022.