Our paper (written with @visakurki.bsky.social) came out this week in Neuroethics. We argue that there are legal norms that regulate when a person can concentrate. These norms can be used to build concentration spaces the protect concentration-requiring tasks from digital distraction.
Great personnel news at @helsinki.fi Faculty of Law! Our Rector has appointed @visakurki.bsky.social as Full Professor of Jurisprudence as of 1 January 2026.
Congratulations, Visa!
www.helsinki.fi/fi/tutustu-m...
Very happy to announce the Helsinki Animal Law Conference 2026: "Reimagining Justice Across Species”.
Our keynotes are @annepetersmpil.bsky.social and @jeffsebo.bsky.social
You are invited to submit your application ✨
See you in June!
www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
#animallaw
We also enjoyed the first keynote address of our Conference, presented by Dr @visakurki.bsky.social (Associate Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Helsinki).
⭐️ Dr Kurki closed the first day of the Conference with his keynote address "Why Animals Already Hold Rights" (2/2)
#EARLCon2025
⭐️ Dr @visakurki.bsky.social Kurki and Dr Saskia Stucki delivered outstanding keynote addresses at this year's Conference.
🎤 Ruud Tombrock, Richard Ryder, and David Bilchitz spoke during our "Past lessons and future prospects" panel on the final day of the Conference. (3/5)
This event will also feature two dynamic keynote addresses delivered by @visakurki.bsky.social (Associate Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Helsinki) and Dr Saskia Stucki (ZHAW School of Management and Law). (2/3)
Congrats Diana!
LEGACY project member publication alert ✨⬇️
How will Trump’s trade war affect global CO2 emissions and energy? Initial thoughts.
Ensi viikon tiistaina Turussa! Millainen on eläinten asema modernissa kulutusyhteiskunnassa? Miten vallitsevat valtarakenteet muovaavat suhdettamme toisiin lajeihin? Tervetuloa kuulemaan ja keskustelemaan! blogit.utu.fi/kultva/event... @benjaminpitkanen.bsky.social @visakurki.bsky.social
My US-based colleagues, FYI:
Finnish Research Council is about to announce a special call to fund researchers abroad to relocate to Finland.
By all means this is not intended to lure you into moving to Finland, it just happens to be planned right now by pure chance.
Ahh that's very helpful, thanks. So there are different kinds of roles. Based on what the candidate told me, this would be more like a primary role (which is somewhat strange to me - I would think that the main supervisors should be from the same university).
For background, "dissertation committee" in Helsinki means sort of an oversight role, where you meet the candidate once a year to discuss how it's going with their supervisors etc.
I've been asked to serve on the dissertation committee of someone doing a PhD at a US university.
I'm a little confused. It seems almost like the role of a supervisor in Finland (or the UK). Yet it's unpaid(?).
Anyone care to explain how this works?
We still have to make some changes, so it's not publicly available anywhere yet!
In this world, rejoicing about paper acceptance seems a little... not-sure-what...
But: our paper, "Toward an Agency Turn in Animal Law", co-authored with Paulina Siemieniec, was just accepted by the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies!
Very pleased!
Esim. apteekkia kaipaisin itse. Samoin kahvilat nimenomaan alueen pohjoispuolelle kelpaisivat. :)
Ihan kivan näköistä kuitenkin, näin melkein naapurina. Toivottavasti on myös kaavoitettu riittävästi palveluja.
Just a couple more days to submit an abstract for our conference on agency in August!
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Facts about the war in Ukraine:
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
Tämän perusteella kyse ei ole vain tiedotteiden kielestä ym. vaan on kyllä riski että puututaan suoraan tutkimusrahoitukseenkin. Joten ehkä optimismille ei ole katetta...
www.hs.fi/helsinki/art...
Joo siis tarkoitin lähinnä jos joku sana poistetaan ainoastaan hakuilmoituksesta mutta muuten kaikki pysyy ennallaan (hakemukset voi kirjoittaa kuten ennenkin jne.). Ehkä tämä on epärealistinen skenaario...
Hieno aloite mutta en ole varma miten paljon on paukkuja (perhevapaalla).
Minusta kysymyksessä on jossain määrin nyansseja. Esim. jos ilmastonmuutos-sana pitää poistaa hakuilmoituksesta, mutta käytännössä saa tutkia ilmastonmuutosta, niin onkohan se vielä syy lopettaa koko ohjelma. 🤔
It was reported by a reputable Finnish newspaper...
US authorities now demanding Helsinki University to remove words like "climate change" and "equal society" from a Fulbright scholarship call. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
10+ permanent positions open in Finland, related to AI:
-Machine Learning,
-AI Business Applications
-Law & AI
-Digital Art
Etc.
www.ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit
En ymmärrä mitä media odottaa.
Monet asiantuntijat puhuvat jo Yhdysvalloissa meneillään olevasta vakavasti otettavasta vallankaappausyrityksestä.
Sen kai pitäisi olla yksi vuosisatamme suurimmista uutisista.
Missä ovat lehtien erikoisnumerot ja etusivun kokoiset otsikot?
Dark thought of today: should European universities get ready to receive US academics soon, like the US did in the 1930s?
Free speech absolutism is back!
Seriously, what's going on in the States is *really* worrisome.
