department of law: introduction

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The Department of Law educates students for degrees from Bachelor to Doctor of either Economics and Business Administration, or Administrative Sciences in the following subjects:

- local public law (administrative sciences)
- business law (economic sciences)
- public law (administrative sciences)
- insurance science (economic sciences)
- tax law (economic sciences).

Pragmatically-oriented education in law and insurance science is designed to serve the needs of both private and public sectors. Research carried out at the Department extensively covers various fields of law. In research, inves tigation into law and insurance science is linked with approaches of administrative or economic sciences. International and European developments are closely followed in research and education.

Research projects:

• Euro-Amercian project (2008-2009)
• Transformation of the European Court of Human Rights – towards the status of the constitutional court of Europe
• Globalisation: Challenges to research and governance

Public law is a subject dealing with the State, local governments and other public corporations, their juridical structures and operations, as well as the legal norms concerning the use of public power and the citizens’ rights.

The University of Tampere is the only university in Finland to offer a degree programme in local public law. Local public law covers, among other things, rules and regulations pertaining to municipal services essential for local residents, and the relationships between the norms and the practice.

Closely tied to economic and financial phenomena, tax law comprises personal and corporate taxation, international taxation and value-added taxation. Tax law is also associated with business law and economic sciences.

Business law includes fields of law that are related with companies and their operations, such as company law, labour law, law on contracts, law on credits and collaterals, and market law.

Insurance science is unique as a discipline in Finland, and the University of Tampere is the only university providing an opportunity to take insurance science as a major subject. Insurance systems and risk management, and their role in society and corporate world are subject to study in insurance science

Last updated 24.10.2008

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