Publications

Examples of publications related to the role of vulnerability in human rights law by the research team

Lisa Grans, Criminalising Attempts to Restrict the Sexuality of Individuals: So-called Conversion Therapy, Talking Rights blog, 6 March 2025.

Mikaela Heikkilä, Magdalena Kmak, The Women of Al-Hol: Deservingness and the Politics of Vulnerability and Security, Nordic Journal of Migration Research 15(2) 2025, 1-18.

Lisa Grans, Conceptualisation of Forced Marriage in the Criminal Law Context in Europe, EHRLR 5 (2024), 411-426.

Lisa Grans and Elina Pirjatanniemi, Lausunto hallituksen esityksestä eduskunnalle laiksi rikoslain muuttamisesta ja eräiksi siihen liittyviksi laiksi, 23 May 2024.

Lisa Grans and Elina Pirjatanniemi, Lausunto oikeusministeriölle työryhmämietinnöstä Avioliittoon pakottamisen rangaistavuuden selkiyttäminen, 22 April 2024.

Elina Pirjatanniemi, Internationella förpliktelser och nationell säkerhet: kan vi lita på att vår grundlag fungerar tillfredsställande i en turbulent tid?, Tidskrift utgiven av juridiska föreningen i Finland 4 (2024), 265-293.

Lisa Grans, The Impact of Vulnerability on State Obligations in Criminal Proceedings on Domestic Violence: Interpreting the Istanbul Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights, Women & Criminal Justice (2023).

Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso and Mikaela Heikkilä (guest editors), Special Issue on Approaches to Vulnerability in Times of Crisis, Human Rights Review 24(2) (2023).

Mikaela Heikkilä and Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso, Introduction: Approaches to Vulnerability in Times of Crisis, Human Rights Review 24(2) (2023), 151-170.

Elina Pirjatanniemi, Vihertyikö rikosoikeus?, in Kimmo Nuotio and Esko Yli-Hemminki (eds.), Kotimaisen rikosoikeustieteen tila ja tulevaisuus (2023).

Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso, Hisayo Katsui and Mikaela Heikkilä, Vulnerability, Disability, and Agency: Exploring Structures for Inclusive Decision-Making and Participation in a Responsive State, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (2022).

Viljam Engström, Mikaela Heikkilä and Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso, Vulnerabilisation: Between mainstreaming and human rights overreach, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, Vol. 40(2) (2022), 118–136.

Lisa Grans, Elina, Pirjatanniemi, Mikaela Heikkilä & Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso, Lausunto, Arviomuistio avioliittoon pakottamisen rangaistavuudesta, 14 Jan 2022.

Elina Pirjatanniemi, ‘Om sex, samtycke och mänskliga rättigheter’, JFT 4-5 (2021) 308-332.

Johanna Vanto, Elsa Saarikkomäki, Anne Alvesalo-Kuusi, Nea Lepinkäinen, Elina Pirjatanniemi, Juha Lavapuro, Collectivized Discretion: Seeking Explanations for Decreased Asylum Recognition Rates in Finland After Europe’s 2015 “Refugee Crisis”, International Migration Review (2021), 1-26.

Mikaela Heikkilä and Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso, ‘Inequality’ in de Feyter, K., Türkelli, G. E. & de Moerloose, S. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Law and Development (Edward Elgar 2021) 135-138.

Viljam Engström, Social Protection Policies of International Organizations (with Aliina Vegar), Institute for Human Rights Working Paper 1/2021.

Mikaela Heikkilä and Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso, Vulnerability as a human rights variable: African and European developments, African Human Rights Law Journal (2020), Vol. 20(2), 777-789.

Elina Pirjatanniemi: Korona kärjistää erisarvoisuutta [Corona exacerbates inequality] (column in Turun Sanomat 23 April 2020).

Viljam Engström, The IMF and Protection of Vulnerable Groups, Nordic Journal of International Law (2020), Vol. 89, 209-243.

Mikaela Heikkilä, Hisayo Katsui and Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso: ‘Disability and vulnerability: A human rights reading of the responsive state’, in Hisayo Katsui and Chalklen Shuaib (eds.) Disability, Globalization and Human Rights (Routledge 2020).

Mikaela Heikkilä, Hisayo Katsui and Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso: Disability and vulnerability: A human rights reading of the responsive state, The International Journal of Human Rights (2020), Vol. 24(8), 1180–1200.

Viljam Engström, Unpacking the Debate on Social Protection Floors, Goettingen Journal of International Law (2019), Vol. 9, 3.

Viljam Engström, ‘A slow revolution to protect the poor and vulnerable? The International Monetary Fund’s Social Spending Strategy 2019‘, Völkerrechtsblog, 27 September 2019.

Elina Pirjatanniemi, ‘Victims of Trafficking in the Migration Discourse: A Conceptualisation of Particular Vulnerability’ in Rita Haverkamp, Ester Herlin-Karnell, Claes Lernestedt (eds.) What is Wrong with Human Trafficking? Critical Perspectives on the Law (Hart 2019), pp. 77-97.

Mikaela Heikkilä and Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso, ‘Turvapaikanhakijoiden haavoittuvuuden huomioiminen Suomen ulkomaalaisoikeudessa ja käytänteissä’ [The recognition of the vulnerability of asylum-seekers in the Finnish asylum law and practices] in Eveliina Lyytinen (ed.), Turvapaikanhaku ja pakolaisuus Suomessa (Siirtolaisuusinstituutti 2019), pp. 65-87.

Elina Pirjatanniemi, ‘Pathways for Future Generations in Existing Legal Human Rights Provisions’ in Marcus Düwell, Gerhard Bos, Naomi van Steenbergen (eds.) Pathways for Future Generations in Existing Legal Human Rights Provisions (Routledge 2018), pp. 66-78.

Saarikkomäki Elsa, Oljakka Nea, Vanto Johanna, Pirjatanniemi Elina, Lavapuro Juha, Alvesalo- Kuusi Anne, ‘Kansainvälistä suojelua koskevat päätökset Maahanmuuttovirastossa 2015-2017. Pilottitutkimus 18-34-vuotiaita Irakin kansalaisia koskevista myönteisistä ja kielteisistä päätöksistä 2015-2017‘ [Decisions of the Finnish Immigration Service concerning international protection in 2015–2017. Pilot study on the positive and negative decisions regarding Iraqi citizens aged 18–34] (2018).

Viljam Engström, Converging Human Rights and Economics?, in Verfassungsblog, 15 February 2018.

Lisa Grans, The concept of due diligence and the positive obligation to prevent honour-related violence: beyond deterrence, The International Journal of Human Rights (2018), Vol. 22(5), 733-755.

Lisa Grans, The Istanbul Convention and the Positive Obligation to Prevent Violence, Human Rights Law Review (2018), Vol. 18, 133-155.

Lisa Grans, Prevention of Honour-Related Violence through the Lens of the Right to Physical and Psychological Integrity (2018), Åbo Akademi University Press.

Lisa Grans, Honour-Related Violence and Children’s Right to Physical and Psychological Integrity, Nordic Journal of Human Rights (2017), Vol. 35(2), 146-161.

Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso, Mikaela Heikkilä, Eleonora Del Gaudio, Sotiris Konstantis, Maria Nagore Casas, Dolores Morondo, Venkatachala G. Hegde and Graham Finlay, The protection of vulnerable individuals in the context of EU policies on border checks, asylum and immigration, FRAME Research Report (2016).

Mikaela Heikkilä and Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso, ‘Seeing the individual in the midst of large-scale phenomena: Some remarks on the European approach to the refugee situation’, European Yearbook of Human Rights (2016), 187-200.

Viljam Engström, ‘Deference and the Human Rights Committee’, Nordic Journal of Human Rights (2016), Vol. 34(2), pp. 73-88.

Lisa Grans, A Right Not to Be Left Alone – Utilising the Right to Private Life to Prevent Honour-related Violence, Nordic Journal of International Law (2016), Vol. 85, 169-200.

Lisa Grans, The State Obligation to Prevent Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment: The Case of Honour-Related Violence, Human Rights Law Review (2015), Vol. 15, 695-718.