International Actors and the Formation of Laws

Introduction.- European Union Law and National Law: a Common Legal System?.- Reflections on the Principle of Mutual Trust in EU Law and Judicial Dialogue in Europe.- Broadening the Right to Personal Autonomy and Supported Decision-making: from International Ideas to National and European Legislation on Voluntary Measures.- The Role of the International Law Association in the Restatement and Evolution of International and National Law relating to Indigenous Peoples.- The Role of the FATF in the Evolution of Counter-terrorism Asset Freezing Laws in the Nordic Countries: We Fought the Soft Law and the Soft Law Won.- The European Space Agency's Contribution to the Making of National Space Law.- Host states' labour regulation in the aftermath of international investment disputes: five levels of impact and interaction.

Katja Karjalainen is a senior researcher at the University of Eastern Finland. Dr. Karjalainen obtained his PhD in private international law and comparative law in 2016 from the University of Helsinki. Her research addresses vulnerabilities using comparative law approaches in the field of private law and private international law. Her previous research and teaching activities have addressed, among other things, equality rights and the family law instruments of the Hague Conference on Private International Law and the European Union. Dr. Karjalainen served as Secretary of the Finnish Branch of ILA between 2013 and 2016, and since 2017, she has been a member of the board of the Branch.
Iina Tornberg conducts doctoral research in the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, Finland. Her doctoral research deals with EU competition rules and their application in international commercial arbitration. Ms. Tornberg has lectured on private international law and arbitration at the University of Helsinki and been a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Ms. Tornberg was a secretary of the Finnish Branch of the International Law Association during 2017-2019 as well as a board member of the Finnish Committee of the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL) and International Association of Legal Science. She works currently as a court of appeal referendary at the Helsinki Court of Appeal, Finland.



Aleksi Pursiainen, LLM (Helsinki), is the founder and CEO of Solid Plan Consulting Ltd., a leading Finnish boutique law firm focused on international sanctions and export controls, where he regularly advises many of the largest Nordic exporters, financial institutions, and technology companies on a comprehensive range of legal and policy issues related to compliance with trade regulations. His publications include Kansainväliset pakotteet ja vientivalvonta