Curriculum Vitae

• 1950 born in Kankaanpää, Finland

• 1974 LL.B., University of Helsinki

• 1976 LL.Lic., University of Helsinki

• 1979 LL.M., University of Toronto

• 1984 Doctor of Laws, University of Helsinki

• 1984-1986 Legal Assistant, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, The Hague

• 1989-1998 Assistant professor of International Law, University of Helsinki

• 1998-2004 Professor of International Law, University of Helsinki

• 1990-1998 Member of the European Commission of Human Rights

• 1998-2006 Judge of the European Court of Human Rights

• Since 2005 Justice of the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland

• Summer term 2015 Visiting professor at the Institute for European and International Law at WU

Research interests

• Human and Fundamental Rights

• International Judicial Proceedings

• Mass Claims in International Law

• Proceedings before Administrative Courts from a comparative perspective

Publications

Author of several books and far more than 100 articles, book reviews etc., among which:

• Expulsion in International Law. A Study in International Aliens Law and Human Rights with Special Reference to Finland (Diss.), Hlesinki 1984, XIII+508 pp.

• Euroopan ihmisoikeussopimus (European Convention on Human Rights), Helsinki 2012, 5^th.  Ed., 986 pp. (in co-peration with M. Gullans, P. Pölönen and A. Tapanila)