20 years of wide professional experience in law

An international and European lawyer from Finland with 20 years of extensive experience in Finnish Law. Lately worked as a research lawyer on international, European, and Finnish law. The legal background includes broad and diverse expertise across nearly every field of Finnish law, combined with valuable insight into international legal matters.

Currently researching International, European and Finnish Law and whether they protect women.

These International Laws are the International Climate Change Law, International Criminal Laws (Rome Statute, and the Statutes of the ICTY and the ICTR), Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Finnish Law on divorce and marital dissolution, Finnish Law on mold at work and women.

Wide volunteer experience in International legal work with refugee matters:

  • Started, led and concluded a project in cooperation with other institutes and with women from different nationalities called A Woman´s Story, published at Red Cross Magazine
  • mentored different nationalities from Asia, the Middle East and Africa in: human trafficking, job search, work permit, Finnish Law and gender equality, tutoring a Bachelor's thesis at Red Cross
  • Immigrant ambassador at Family Federation for raising awareness of Finnish Law and gender equality, and teaching immigrants about Finnish Law on gender equality, etc.
  • Leader for volunteers and a project manager at Red Cross in my pioneer project called "Friendship and Finnish": initiated, started, led and concluded the project where refugees practiced Finnish at a senior home
I observed during the above refugee work that the system is abused. Paul Collier argues that the global refugee system is broken, as it would be safer for refugees to remain in nearby countries that are safer and more familiar, where they can find or create employment. Accordingly, the underfunded United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) concentrates solely on humanitarian aid, rather than on long-term economic solutions such as employment (Collier, October 2, 2018 and November 30, 2016). Collier stresses that we need to shift from crisis response to long-term strategies: helping people within their home regions through investment in jobs and development, rather than dedicating most resources to the few who reach Europe. An updated international consensus is essential to effectively address mass displacement (Collier, October 3, 2018 and November 30, 2016).

Finnish legal work:

Police, prosecutor, and two higher instances of appeal, such as the processes of the Supreme Court judicial review in its various forms

Work in both civil and criminal matters. Experience in criminal matters includes: restraining orders and assault, extensive criminal investigations, e.g. witness statements and procedural fraud, etc.

Experience in civil matters includes: divorce, division of property, health and safety at work: / mould and redundancy policies contesting investments

Other work has included: privacy policies (GDPR), lodging complaints, for example, on the legality of operations. These parties have included: In Finland, e.g. the Ombudsmen and Chancellor, Institutions outside Finland, such as EU bodies, UN agencies, assessing the activities of Member States

Other tasks have included supervisory duties and acting as an employer