Sanna Mustasaari

Peer reviewed articles

1. Kivioja, N. & Mustasaari, S. Rights-based social work as a practice. The role of child welfare social work in the repatriations of Finnish children from the camps in north-eastern Syria. European Journal of Social Work. Open access https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13691457.2024.2358354
2. Mustasaari, S. 2024. ‘”We are here to put the past behind us”: Violence and welfare governmentality in Nordic family laws’ Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law. Open access: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09649069.2024.2345478
3. Mustasaari, S. 2024. ‘Cross-border child protection cases between Finland and Central-Eastern Europe including Russia’, in K Duden and D Wiedemann (eds), Changing families, changing family law in Europe, Intersentia, 195-2016. The free eBook is available at https://www.larcier-intersentia.com/en/changing-families-changing-family-law-europe-9781839703805.html.
4. Kolehmainen, A. & Mustasaari, S. 2023. Osituksen viivästyminen ja asumiskorvaus osituksessa. [Delays in divorce settlements and the compensation for the use of the home owned by the ex-spouse] Defensor Legis 4 /2023, 410-429.
5. Vähäsavo, V., Hiitola, J., Innola, T., Rönkä, A., Louhela H., Mustasaari, S. ja Jalagin, S. 2023. ’Syljen jäljistä varjosukupuihin: tutkimus kaupallisten DNA-teknologioiden vaikutuksista monimuotoisiin suhteisiin’ [From traces of saliva to shadow-trees: a study on the impact of commercial DNA testing on a diversity of relations] Sosiologia 3-4/2023, 195-2011.
6. Mustasaari, S. 2022. ‘Children abroad: A relational analysis of cross-border child protection cases in the Finnish Central Authority’, Child and Family Law Quarterly 34:4. I am the main editor of the special issue, which is fully available at: https://erepo.uef.fi/handle/123456789/30168 .
7. Al-Sharmani, M. & Mustasaari, S. 2022. Islamic Family Law(s) in Finland: Reflections on Freedom of Religion from the Perspective of Well-being’, Available at https://journal.fi/temenos/article/view/113886 .
   
8. Al-Sharmani, M. & Mustasaari, S. 2022. ‘Nuoret somalitaustaiset muslimit ja islamilainen perheoikeus.’ [Young Somali Muslims and Islamic Family Law] In: Johanna Konttori & Teemu Pauha (eds.). Suomalaiset muslimit. Helsinki: Gaudeamus.
9. Mustasaari, S. 2023. ’Bileet! Feministinen teoria, relationaalinen autonomia ja nuorten seksuaalioikeudet’. [Party! Feminist theory, relational autonomy and sexual rights of adolescents] Teoksessa Maija Aalto-Heinilä, Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen & Paul Tiensuu (toim.) Itsemääräämisoikeus. Vastapaino. Available at https://blogit.vastapaino.fi/oa-kirjat/itsemaaraamisoikeus .
10. Nieminen, K., Hurri, S., Soirila, U. & Mustasaari, S., 2021, ’Uusi oikeustapausanalyysi’ [New case analysis] in Nieminen, K. & Lähteenmäki, N. (eds.) Empiirinen oikeustutkimus. Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 233-224.
11. Al-Sharmani, M. & Mustasaari, S. 2021. ‘Governing Divorce Practices of Somali Finnish Muslims: Does Religious Literacy Matter?’ in T. Sakaranaho, T. Aarrevaara and J. Konttori (eds.) Challenges of Religious Literacy. Springer.
12. Mustasaari, S. 2021 ‘Best Interests and Joint Governance: Tracing Slowly Emerging Diversity in Finnish Family Law’ in M. Foblets & N. Yassari (eds.) Family Law and Cultural Diversity. Springer.
13. Mustasaari, S. 2020. ‘Affective constructions of justice: ISIS-families and the law in the Finnish public debate,’ Oñati Socio-Legal Series 11(4), pp. 1036–1065. Available at: https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/1198
14. Mustasaari, S. 2020 ‘Finnish Children or “Cubs of the Caliphate”? Jurisdiction and State ‘Response-ability’ in Human Rights Law, Private International Law and the Finnish Child Welfare Act,’ Oslo Law Review 1/2020, 22-45. Available at https://www.idunn.no/doi/full/10.18261/ISSN.2387-3299-2020-01-03
15. Mustasaari, S. & Vora, V. 2019. ‘Muslim marriages, wellbeing and the law’, in Marja Tiilikainen, Mulki Al-Sharmani, & Sanna Mustasaari (eds.) Wellbeing of Transnational Muslim Families: Marriage, Law and Gender, pp. 39-58. London, New York: Routledge. Equal contributions, see endnote 1. Open access at: https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/312101/Wellbeing%20of%20Transnational%20Muslim%20Families.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
16. Tiilikainen, M., Al-Sharmani, M. & Mustasaari, S. 2019. ‘Introduction: Wellbeing, family life, and transnational Muslims in the West’ in Marja Tiilikainen, Mulki Al-Sharmani & Sanna Mustasaari (eds.) Wellbeing of Transnational Muslim Families: Marriage, Law and Gender, pp. 1-21. London, New York: Routledge.
17. Nieminen, K. & Mustasaari 2019. ‘Narratives of Belonging: Religion, Gendered body and claims of autonomy and authenticity,’ in Anne Macduff & Dorota Gozdecka (eds.) Beyond the Gendered Subject – The Provocation of the ‘Post’ in Law and Feminist Thought, 48-59. London, New York: Routledge. ISBN: 978-1.138-48834-2
18. Mustasaari, S. & Al-Sharmani, M. 2018. ‘Between ‘Official’ and ‘Unofficial’: Discourses and Practices of Muslim Marriage Conclusion in Finland’, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 7:3, 455–478. https://doi.org/10.1093/ojlr/rwy029
19. Al-Sharmani, M., Mustasaari, S. & Ismail, A. 2018.’Uskonnollinen perheriitojen sovittelu suomalaisissa moskeijoissa: kehittyviä rooleja ja muovautuvia käytäntöjä,’ in Johanna Hiitola, Merja Anis & Kati Turtiainen (eds.) Maahanmuutto, palvelut ja hyvinvointi. Kohtaamisissa kehittyviä käytäntöjä. [Migration, services and welfare. Evolving practices in encounters] Finnish translation of previously published article ’Faith-based Family Dispute Resolution in Finnish Mosques: Unfolding Roles and Evolving Practices’.
20. Mustasaari, S. 2017. ‘Ruling on belonging: Transnational marriages in Nordic immigration laws,’ Migration Letters 14:1, pp. 25-37.
21. Al-Sharmani, M., Tiilikainen, M. & Mustasaari, S. 2017. ‘Editorial: Transnational Migrant Families: Navigating Marriage, Generation and Gender in Multiple Spheres,’ Migration Letters 14:1, pp. 1-10.
22. Al-Sharmani, M., Mustasaari, S. & Ismail, A. 2017. ‘Faith-based Family Dispute Resolution in Finnish Mosques: Unfolding Roles and Evolving Practices,’ in Samia Bano (ed), Gender and Justice in Family Law Disputes: Women, Mediation, and Religious Arbitration, pp. 270-291. Waltham, MA, USA: Brandeis University Press.
23. Mustasaari, S. 2016. ‘Best interests of the child in family reunification – A citizenship test disguised?’ in Griffiths, A., S. Mustasaari & A. Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen, (eds.) Subjectivity, Citizenship and Belonging in Law: Identities and Intersections, pp. 124-145, Abingdon: Routledge.
24. Mustasaari, S. 2015. ‘Law, Agency and the Intimate Relationships of Young People: from Rights to Duties and Back?’ in Dorota Gozdecka & Magdalena Kmak (eds.) Europe at the Edge of Pluralism, pp. 133–146. Cambridge: Intersentia.
25. Mustasaari, S. and Koulu, S. 2015. ‘State Curriculum and Parents’ Convictions under the European Convention on Human Rights,’ in M. Jänterä-Jareborg (ed.) The Child’s Interests in Conflict: The Intersections between Society, Family, Faith and Culture, pp. 55–72. Intersentia.
26. Mustasaari, S. 2015. ‘The “nuclear family paradigm” as a marker of rights and belonging in transnational families,’ Social Identities 21:4, pp. 359–372.
27. Mustasaari, S. 2008. ’Islamilainen perheoikeus Suomen oikeusjärjestelmässä’ [Islamic Family Law in The Finnish Legal System]. Teoksessa Oikeustiede-Jurisprudentia 2008:XLI, 187-266.

Non-refereed scientific articles

1. Mustasaari, S. 2024. KKO 2023:66: Lapsen palauttaminen – Haagin sopimus. [Return of the child – Hague 1980 Child Abduction Convention. Case commentary.] In Korkeimman oikeuden kommentein 2023: II. Alma Talent.
2. Mustasaari, S. 2022. ‘Editorial – Transnational Child Protection’, Child and Family Law Quarterly 34:4. https://erepo.uef.fi/handle/123456789/30168
3. Mustasaari, S. & Nieminen, K., 2021, ‘Law and emotions – new paths for research?’ No Foundations: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law and Justice 18, i-x.
4. Mustasaari, S. 2019. ‘Extra-Judicial Muslim Divorces and Family Mediation in the Nordic Countries: What Role is There for the Welfare State?’ in K. Boele-Woelki (ed.) Plurality and Diversity of Family Relations in Europe, pp. 285-312. Cambridge: Intersentia.
5. Nieminen, K., & Mustasaari, S. 2019. Editorial: Good Judgment? No Foundations : An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law and Justice, (16).
6. Karjalainen, K., Mikkilä, T., Mustasaari, S., Salminen, K. & Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen, A. 2018. Lainopillinen ja yhteiskuntatieteellisesti painottunut tutkimus: Yhtä perhettä. [Legal-dogmatic research and socio-legal research: One family] Lakimies 6/2018.
7. Mustasaari, S. 2016. ‘CEDAW and the Riddle of Diversity: Can Culture, Traditions or Religion Justify Economic Inequalities Embedded in Family Laws?’ in M. Jänterä-Jareborg & H. Tigroudja (eds.) Women’s Human Rights and the Elimination of Discrimination / Les droits des femmes et l’élimination de la discrimination, pp. 391-420. Leiden: Brill.
8. Mustasaari, S., A. Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen & A. Griffiths. ’Identities and Intersections: Critical Perspectives on the Person of the Law,’ in Griffiths, A., S. Mustasaari & A. Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen, (eds.) Subjectivity, Citizenship and Belonging in Law: Identities and Intersections, pp. 3-23, Abingdon: Routledge.
9. Mustasaari, S. 2013. ‘Nahkatakkisia tyttöjä ja neitsythäkkejä – “normaalius” nuorten seksuaalioikeuksien määrittäjänä,’ [Girls in leather jackets and caged virgins – Defining the sexual rights of adolescents through “normality”] in S. Hakalehto-Wainio & L. Nieminen (eds.) Lapsen oikeudet murroksessa. Lakimiesliiton kustannus.
10. Koulu, S. & Mustasaari, S. 2012. Kansainväliset lapsen huoltoa koskevat velvoitteet ja Suomen käytäntö,’ [International obligations of the state and Finnish praxis regarding children’s care and custody] in M. Mikkola and O. Khazova (eds.) Riita lapsen huollosta Suomessa ja Venäjällä. University of Helsinki, Forum Iuris, s. 35-55.
11. Mustasaari, S. 2019. ‘Law relating to foreign nationals’, book review of Ulkomaalaisoikeus edited by Kallio et al (2018), Nordic Journal of Migration
    Research , vol. 9 , no. 3 , pp. 413-416. https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/307217/Mustasaari.pdf?sequence=3
12. Mustasaari, S. 2012. Book review of Sörgjerd, Caroline: Reconstructing Marriage. The Legal Status of Relationships in a Changing Society (2012), Lakimies 4/2012, 614–617.
13. Mustasaari, S. 2014. Book review of Maclean, Mavis – Eekelaar, John (eds.): Managing Family Justice in Diverse Societies (2013), Lakimies 4/2014, 625–630.
14. Mustasaari, S. 2012. ‘KKO 2012:11 Isyyslain siirtymäsäännösten kanneaika,’[Case commentary] in P. Timonen (ed.) KKO:n ratkaisut kommentein 2012:1. Helsinki: Talentum.

Scientific books (monographs)

1. Mustasaari, S. 2017. Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe: Finland, Leiden: Brill.
2. Edited Journal Special Issue. 2022. ‘Transnational Child Protection,’ Child and Family Law Quarterly 34:4, available at: https://erepo.uef.fi/handle/123456789/30168
3. Edited Journal Special Issue. 2017. ‘Transnational Migrant Families: Navigating Marriage, Generation and Gender in Multiple Spheres,’ Migration Letters 14:1, guest edited by Mulki Al-Sharmani, Marja Tiilikainen & Sanna Mustasaari.
4. Edited Journal Special Issue. 2021. ‘Law and emotions – new paths for research?’ No Foundations: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law and Justice 18, edited by Sanna Mustasaari & Kati Nieminen.
5. Edited volume: Subjectivity, Citizenship and Belonging in Law: Identities and Intersections. 2016. Abingdon: Routledge. Edited by A. Griffiths, S. Mustasaari & A. Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen.
6. Edited volume: Wellbeing of Transnational Muslim Families: Marriage, Law and Gender. 2019. Routledge. Edited by M. Tiilikainen, M. Al-Sharmani & S. Mustasaari.

 Publications intended for the general public

1. Mustasaari, S. ja Sillanpää, S. 2024. ’Lakiuudistus ei riitä auttamaan avioliittoon pakotettuja ihmisiä’ [Op-ed: Amendments to the Marriage Act are not enough – more support is needed for people who have been forced to marry] Helsingin Sanomat, 17 January 2024.
2. Mustasaari, S. 2022. ‘The issue of extraterritorial jurisdiction in the repatriation of children detained in Syrian camps: shortcomings in the ECtHR judgment in H.F. and Others v. France’ Strasbourg Observers blog, available at https://strasbourgobservers.com/2022/11/01/the-issue-of-extraterritorial-jurisdiction-in-the-repatriation-of-children-detained-in-syrian-camps-shortcomings-in-the-ecthr-judgment-in-h-f-and-others-v-france%EF%BF%BC/
3. Mustasaari, S. 2022. ’Koillis-Syyrian leireillä olevien lasten ja äitien oikeudet esillä Euroopan ihmisoikeustuomioistuimessa – H.F. ja muut vastaan Ranska’ [The rights of children and mothers in camps in North-East Syria are presented at the European Court of Human Rights – H.F. and others against France] Perustuslakiblogi 9.2022 https://perustuslakiblogi.wordpress.com/2022/09/20/sanna-Mustasaari-koillis-syyrian-leireilla-olevien-lasten-ja-aitien-oikeudet-esilla-euroopan-ihmisoikeustuomioistuimessa-h-f-ja-muut-vastaan-ranska/
4. Mustasaari, S. 2019. ’Al-Holin suomalaisnaiset ja -lapset kansainvälisen yksityisoikeuden näkökulmasta’ [Finnish women and children in the al-Hol camp from the perspective of private international law] Perustuslakiblogi12.2019 https://perustuslakiblogi.wordpress.com/2019/12/17/sanna-Mustasaari-al-holin-suomalaisnaiset-ja-lapset-kansainvalisen-yksityisoikeuden-nakokulmasta/
5. Mustasaari, S. & Al-Sharmani, M. 2018. ’Sharia-laki ymmärretään usein väärin – Vastakkainasettelu islamin normien ja Suomen lain välillä perustuu yksinkertaistuksiin’ [Op-ed: Sharia law is often misunderstood – The confrontation between Islamic norms and Finnish law is based on simplifications] Helsingin Sanomat6.2018. https://www.hs.fi/mielipide/art-2000005719849.html

Theses

1. Mustasaari, S. 2017. Doctoral dissertation (article-based): Rethinking recognition: Transnational families and belonging in law. Helsinki: University of Helsinki.* Available at https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/225021/RETHINKI.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
2. Mustasaari, S. 2008. Master’s Thesis in Law. Islamilainen perheoikeus Suomen oikeusjärjestelmässä’ [Islamic Family Law in The Finnish Legal System] Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki.