Jaakko Husa holds the Chair of Legal Culture and Legal Linguistics at the University of Lapland. He got his PhD in 1995. He has been Professor of Comparative Public Law at Univ. of Vaasa (98-03) and Professor of Constitutional Law & Jurisprudence at the Univ. of Eastern Finland (04-10). He is also an Invited Fellow with Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI), and an Adjunct Professor of Comparative Legal Science at the Univ. Helsinki. Specialist areas include comparative law, legal cultures, and constitutional law. He is a strong supporter of internationally oriented legal science and underlines the importance of studying law in context.
comparative law
A Dialogue on Comparative Functionalism (with Jan M. Smits), Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law (2011)
The use of the functional method when comparing legal systems remains debated, even to such...
Book-Review of Galdia's Legal Linguistics (2009), Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law (2011)
Our understanding of the discipline of law, or more broadly the sphere of law, has...
The False Dichotomy between Theory and Practice - Lessons from Comparative Law, Rechtswissenschaft als juristische Doktrin (2011)
Allegedly, there is a conflict between theoretical and practical comparative law. This conflict can be...
Review of Schlesinger's Comparative Law 2009 edition, Tidsskrift for rettsvitenskap - Nordic Journal of Jurisprudence (2010)
The 2009 edition of Schlesinger’s Comparative Law may be regarded as a kind of a...
Turning the Curriculum Upside Down: Comparative Law as an Educational Tool for Constructing the Pluralistic Legal Mind, German Law Journal (2009)
Argument in this paper draws inspiration from the pedagogical theory of so‐called constructivism. Following this...
comparative constitutional law
Nordic Constitutionalism and European Human Rights - Mixing Oil and Water, Scandinavian Studies in Law (2010)
This article seeks to make sense of why the ECtHR’s interpretation techniques are problematic from...
'We the Judges...': Discovering Constitutional Ius Commune Europaeum, Ticom Working Paper on Comparative and Transnational Law (2009)
Article examines the possibility of modern constitutional ius commune. The methodological idea is to use...
Constitutional Transformation in Europe – Mixing Law and Politics?, Europarättslig Tidskrift - European Law Journal (2002)
Constitutionalism in Europe has been for a long time in a constant state of flux....
comparative law teaching
Turning the Curriculum Upside Down: Comparative Law as an Educational Tool for Constructing the Pluralistic Legal Mind, German Law Journal (2009)
Argument in this paper draws inspiration from the pedagogical theory of so‐called constructivism. Following this...
legal linguistics
Book-Review of Galdia's Legal Linguistics (2009), Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law (2011)
Our understanding of the discipline of law, or more broadly the sphere of law, has...
legal theory
The Method is Dead, Long Live the Methods! European Polynomia and Pluralist Methodology, Legisprudence (2012)
Globalisation and Europeanisation do not only produce coherence and uniformity but are flanked by differentiation...
No subject area
Nordic Law - Between Tradition and Dynamism, Nordic Law - Between Tradition and Dynamism (with K. Nuotio and H. Pihlajamäki) (2007)
Emancipation or Deprivation for European Legal Mind? The Contribution of the Legal Traditions Approach, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law/TICOM Working Paper No 2008/3 (2006)
In this review essay the problem of an exclusive legal mind is tackled with the...