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Environmental Law Research Group

Multidisciplinary and internationally oriented research group that systematically aims at high societal effectiveness. The research analyses the environmental legislation and its implementation practices, and identifies multidisciplinary means of addressing environmental challenges and conflicts. Environmental law research covers various themes of traditional and modern environmental law. Recently, the research has been active, in particular, in the fields of natural resource and bio economy law, land use and building law, environmental protection law and theory of argumentation in environmental law. The group members have held several expert roles that have supported the drafting of legislation and the practical implementation of legal statutes. The research is closely integrated to the teaching of the law school which provides the widest selection of environmental law courses in Finland, covering all areas of environmental law ranging from nature conservation to zoning- and construction law. Furthermore, they have provided training for people working in the environmental sector.

Heidi Hyytinen (heidi.hyytinen@uef.fi)

I work as a professor of university pedagogy. My areas of expertise include teaching and learning in higher education and higher education transitions, with emphasis on generic skills (such as critical thinking and argumentation), self-regulation, and performance-based assessment. My current projects are KAPPAS2 (Assessment of Undergraduate Students’ Generic Skills in Finland) project, READY (Ready for working life) project, and PIONEERED (Pioneering Policies and Practices Tackling Educational Inequalities in Europe, Horizon 2020) project.

 

Lauri Thurén (lauri.thuren@uef.fi)

Lauri Thurén, born 1961. PhD (theology) 1990 Åbo Akademi, docent 1994 University of Joensuu; 1995 Åbo Akademi University. Studies: Åbo Akademi University, University of Turku, Uppsala Universitet (Sweden), Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley, USA). Fulbright-grantee 1987-88. Lecturer in classical languages and biblical studies 2000-2001, professor of Biblical Studies 2002-; project leader in Centre of Excellence, Academy of Finland, 1997-2003. Dean, Faculty of Theology 2003-2009; Philosophical Faculty 2008.

Research interests: Parables of Jesus as argumentation (project: Parables as Persuasive Narratives). Pauline Theology, Catholic epistles, rhetoric, narratology, epistolography, argumentation analysis.

Some academic monographs:

  • The Rhetorical Strategy of 1 Peter with Special Regard to Ambiguous Expressions, dissertation, Åbo: Åbo Academy Press 1990.
  • Argument and Theology in 1 Peter – The Origins of Christian Paraenesis, JSNTSS 114, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press 1995.
  • Derhetorizing Paul – A Dynamic Perspective on Pauline Theology and the Law, WUNT I:124, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2000, reprinted: Harrisburg: Trinity Press 2002.
  • Parables Unplugged – Reading the Lukan Parables in Their Rhetorical Context, Minneapolis: Fortress Press 2014.
  • Kameli neulansilmästä – Jeesuksen vertaukset puhtaalta pöydältä, Helsinki: Kirjapaja 2015.
  • Rhetoric and Scripture – Collected Essays of Thomas H. Olbricht, Emory Studies of Christianity 23, ed. Lauri Thurén, Atlanta: SBL Press 2021.

 

 

Maija Dahlberg (maija.dahlberg@uef.fi)

LL.D Maija Dahlberg works at the UEF Law School as an Associate Professor of Public Law. After defending her PhD on the judicial legitimacy and legal argumentation of the European Court of Human Rights, Dr Dahlberg has moved onwards by developing legitimacy questions further in the EU human rights law context as well as broadened the research area on comparative transparency questions. Her current research funded by the Academy of Finland focuses on legitimacy and transparency of constitutional interpretation and constitutionality review more broadly.

Beyond academic scholarship, Dr Dahlberg has also been regularly consulted as a constitutional law expert at the Constitutional Law Committee of the Parliament.

Dr Dahlberg teaches courses on Constitutional Law (human rights, European Constitutional Law, law drafting and control of legality) at the University of Eastern Finland Law School. Teaching consists of both public lectures and seminars.

Ongoing research projects:

Academy of Finland (8/2020-8/2023): In search of a more complete understanding of constitutional interpretation: the legitimacy and transparency of constitutionality control

Together with Örebro University, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (8/2021-8/2024): Nordic CONREASON Project: Nordic exceptionalism? Mapping constitutional reasoning in the Nordic countries

Tommi Lenho (tommi.lenho@uef.fi)

I am writing an exegetical dissertation on the high Christological claims of the Johannine Jesus in John 10:22–42. I use modern argumentation analysis as my primary method.