Election of judges to the European Court of Human Rights{In accordance with Article 22 of the European Convention on Human Rights.}

List and curricula vitae of candidates submitted by the Government of Finland

Communication | Doc. 13729 | 13 March 2015

Author(s):

Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly

Contents

1List and curricula vitae of candidates submitted by the Government of Finland

Appendix 1– Pauliine KOSKELO

Appendix 2– Jukka LINDSTEDT

Appendix 3– Anne Elina NIEMI

1 List and curricula vitae of candidates submitted by the Government of Finland

Letter from Mr Pekka Hyvönen, Ambassador of Finland to the Council of Europe, to Mr Wojciech Sawicki, Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly, dated 6 February 2015

[…]

We want to inform you that the Government of Finland is submitting to the Parliamentary Assembly a list of three candidates for the election of a Judge in respect of Finland to the European Court of Human Rights in accordance with Article 22 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

These three candidates are Ms Pauliine KOSKELO, M. Jukka LINDSTEDT and Ms Anne E. NIEMI. You will also find attached to this document the CVs of the candidates.

As discussed, Finland can agree with forwarding the election of a judge in respect of Finland for the Assembly’s April 2015 part-session.

[…]

Information on national selection procedure for the position of a judge of the European Court of Human Rights

Finland has, in 2010, reformed the procedures for nominating candidates for judges or members of international courts and tribunals and the Court of Justice of European Union, by amending the Act on Judicial Appointments (laki tuomareiden nimittämisestä; lag on utnämning av domare, No. 205/2000; amendment No. 741/2010, which entered into force on 1 November 2010). The purpose of the reform was to increase transparency in the decision-making and enhance the appointment of best possible candidates. The reform also brings consistency and uniformity to the nomination procedures, and strengthens the principle of good governance.

According to the amended Act, the candidates for judges or members of international courts and tribunals, including the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), are nominated by the Government at its plenary session. The Act establishes a permanent Expert Advisory Board (asiantuntijaneuvottelukunta; sakkunnigdelegation), which has the duty to prepare such nominations. The board has nine members, consisting of representatives from the Prime Minister’s Office; the Ministry for Foreign Affairs; Ministry of Justice; the Supreme Court; the Supreme Administrative Court; Prosecutor General’s Office; the Finnish Bar Association; and a representative of the university units engaged in legal research and instruction. It also includes a representative from the competent ministry. In addition, the members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration are members of the Board.

The Board has been appointed by the Government at its plenary session. A deputy has been appointed to each member.

When establishing the list of candidates for the post of judge at the ECtHR, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs has the mandate of coordinating the matter. It initiates the procedure by notifying the Board of the vacancy and advertising it.

An announcement was published in the major national newspapers Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish) and Hufvudstadsbladet (in Swedish), on 4 May 2014. Interested candidates were encouraged to submit their written applications to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, by 27 June 2014.

The announcement was also published on the website of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. It was also sent by e-mail to the Supreme Court, the Supreme Administrative Court, all Courts of Appeal, the Association of Finnish Lawyers, the Finnish Bar Association, and to all universities having a faculty of law.

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs received altogether nine (9) applications within the time-limit, and submitted all of them to the Board.

The criteria set forth by the Council of Europe concerning judges of the ECtHR were taken into account when establishing the list of candidates. The principal criteria were expressed already in the vacancy announcement. The Board also applied these criteria when establishing a list of candidates. It gave specific consideration to the recommendation of the Parliamentary Assembly to present candidates of both sexes.

Proficiency in at least one of the official languages of the Council of Europe was required.

The Board proposed a list of three eligible candidates to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The Minister of Foreign Affairs has the ultimate discretion of presenting the list to the Government at its plenary session, which makes the final decision on the list of candidates to be presented to the Committee of Ministers.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs presented the list of three candidates recommended by the Board, and the Government appointed the said candidates at its plenary session, on 11 December 2014.

Appendix 1 – Pauliine KOSKELO

CURRICULUM VITAE [(1) Text in bold indicates posts or missions held at present.]

I. Personal details

Name, forename: Koskelo, Pauliine

Sex: Female

Date and place of birth: 22 June 1956, Salo, Finland

Nationality/ies: Finnish national

II. Education and academic and other qualifications

• Matriculation examination 1976, Forssa Upper Secondary School, with distinction
• High School Diploma, West Bloomfield High School, Michigan, USA, 1974 (high honors)
• Master of Laws, University of Helsinki, 1979, with distinction
• Award for nationally best grades in a Master of Laws degree of the year 1979
• Trained on the bench 1985, Helsinki district court
• Dr. econ. h.c. Hanken School of Economics 2009
• Dr. jur. h.c. University of Helsinki Faculty of Law 2010

III. Relevant professional activities

a. Description of judicial activities

• Member of the Supreme Court of Finland since 1 April 2000

The Supreme Court of Finland is the third and final judicial instance with jurisdiction in civil, commercial and criminal matters. Its primary role is to function as a court of precedent, i.e. to examine and decide cases that raise issues requiring guidance in respect of the interpretation or uniform application of the law. In order to carry out this function the Supreme Court administers a general filtering system under which leave to appeal is required in order for a case to be admitted for examination on the merits.

• President of the Supreme Court of Finland, since 1 January 2006, current full-time post

As President of the Supreme Court, I participate on a regular basis in the judicial work of the Court as presiding judge. Apart from that, I represent the Court and the judicial branch more generally in various contexts and make contributions to the development of activities as well as to general discussion about current issues relating to the protection of rights, the judicial system and various needs for reform, both at the national level and in various European contexts.

• Chairperson of the Judicial Appointments Board of Finland, 2006-2012
• Vice-President of the Network of the Presidents of the Supreme Judicial Courts of the European Union, since June 2008

This Network was established in 2004 in order to promote contacts and cooperation between the presidents of the highest judicial courts within the EU.

• Member of the Panel provided for in Article 255 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, since 1 March 2014

The task of this panel is to give an opinion on candidates’ suitability to perform the duties of Judge and Advocate-General of the Court of Justice and the General Court before the Governments of the Member States make the appointments.

b. Description of non-judicial legal activities

• Senior Officer in Legislative Affairs, Ministry of Justice 1980–1984
• Senior Adviser in Legislative Affairs, Ministry of Justice, 1985–1995
• Secondment to a Legislative Division of the Swedish Ministry of Justice in Stockholm 1989 (one full year)

During my years at the Ministry of Justice, I was involved in several legislative reform projects in the fields of civil law, consumer law, commercial law family law and insolvency law, and in the course of that career, I had independent responsibilities for the drafting of some major pieces of legislation. I was also involved in international legal cooperation (Nordic cooperation, UNCITRAL, Unidroit, Council of Europe, European Economic Area, European Union).

• European Investment Bank, Luxembourg, Legal Directorate 1995–2000:
  • Head of Division 1995–1997;
  • Assistant General Counsel 1998–1999;
  • Co-director 1999–2000

During my years at the EIB, a financial lending institution of the European Union established by the treaties, I was responsible for institutional legal issues and legal issues relating to the lending policies of the Bank as, well as legal issues in human resources management. In other words, I dealt with a wide range of horizontal legal issues relating to the Bank’s various activities, and worked closely with the Bank’s President, Management Committee, Secretary General and the different services of the Bank. These tasks involved a wide scope of European law issues as well as general institutional and administrative legal issues, contractual issues and employment law issues. The working environment was multinational, multilingual and multiprofessional.

• President of the Board of Trustees of the Academy of European Law (ERA), since 2011
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Law Faculty of the University of Helsinki, since 2011
• Member of the National Board of the Nordic Lawyers’ Conference, since 2005
• Chairperson of the Advisory Board of the University of Helsinki Institute of European Economic Law 2008–2011
• Member of the Board of the Finnish Law Association 2001–2006

c. Description of non-legal professional activities

None (apart from summer jobs in student times)

IV. Activities and experience in the field of human rights

During my fifteen years at the Supreme Court, human rights law has come to play an ever more prominent role in the judicial work of the Court. Issues relating to human rights are an important part of my daily work as judge and as president of the Court. I have been involved and actively engaged in a large number of cases where issues relating to human rights, and the balancing of conflicting rights, have been very much in focus. This is an area where guidance by the Supreme Court through its case-law has been of particular importance during this period.

I have also, especially in my capacity as supreme court president, been active in raising awareness about issues relating to fundamental rights and human rights within the judicial system, about the need to develop competencies in these issues within the judiciary and to about the importance of integrating human rights law into the judicial practice at all levels. These have been central themes in many lectures that I have given, as well as in speeches and interventions in various seminars and conferences over the years.

I have actively contributed to efforts aimed at improving the training and knowhow of judges and other judicial staff in human rights law, as well as in efforts aimed at improving the spreading of information about European case-law relating to human rights. For instance, I took the initiative to start a monthly news bulletin relating to developments in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights and the EU Court of Justice. In the first several years, I personally chaired the editorial group for this bulletin, which is distributed to all levels of the courts as well as, following their request, to the prosecution service and the bar association.

I have also initiated and hosted a “tripartite” conference between the members of the Network of Presidents of the Supreme Judicial Courts of the EU and representatives of the European Court of Human Rights, including its President, and representatives of the Court of Justice of the European Union, including its President. This conference was the first of its kind and took place in Helsinki in September 2013.

V. Public activities

a. Public office

None other than above

b. Elected posts

None

c. Posts held in a political party or movement

None

VI. Other activities

Field

University of Helsinki Alumni Association

b. Duration

c. Functions

Chairperson 2008–2012

VII. Publications and other works

• Author or co-author of four books in the fields of contract law, family law, insolvency law
• Author of several articles in the fields of contract law, consumer law, insolvency law, European law, fundamental rights

Recent titles:

• Domare, lagstiftare och professorer – roller och frågeställningar idag; Festföreläsning vid Svea hovrätts 400-årsjubileum, juni 2014 (publication forthcoming in Svensk Juristtidning)
• Domstolsväsendets utmaningar från ett finländskt perspektiv; Jubileumsskrift för Svea hovrätt, Stockholm 2014, p. 289-302.
• What role for justice in the European Union; Presentation on the occasion of the conference “Assises de la Justice” in November 2013; published in “Justice – Justiz –Giustizia 2014/1”
• Perusoikeusjärjestelmän ongelmakohtia kansallisen lainkäyttäjän näkökulmasta, 2012; teoksessa Oikeuskulttuurin eurooppalaistuminen – ihmisoikeuksien murroksesta kansainväliseen vuorovaikutukseen (Tuuli Heinonen, Juha Lavapuro, toim.), Suomalaisen Lakimiesyhdistyksen julkaisu, E-sarja N:o 23, p. 95-123.
• Rättsvård i ett multipolart system – samspel, spänningar och utmaningar, 2012; Tidskrift för Juridiska Föreningen i Finland 4/2012 p. 1-17
• The Flux of EU Law – Interesting Times for Legal Professionals, 2011; in “A European Law Practitioner”, Liber Amicorum John Toulmin (Editors Wolfgang Heusel, Jean-Philippe Rageade), ERA Forum Volume 12, Supplement 1, May 2011
• Tuomarin ja asianajajan tehtävät ja vastuu EY-oikeuden huomioon ottamisessa kansallisessa lainkäytössä; published in “Individens rättsställning inom Europeiska unionen”, Festskrift Allan Rosas, Institutet för mänskliga rättigheter vid Åbo Akademi, Turku / Åbo 2008, p. 623-635.

VIII. Languages

Language	Reading			Writing			Speaking
	very good	good	fair	very good	good	fair	very good	good	fair
a. First language:
– Finnish	x			x			x
b. Official languages:
– English	x			x			x
– French	x				x			x
c. Other languages:
– Swedish [(2) In respect of Swedish, I have a certificate of full command of the language and my family is bilingual.]	x			x			x
– German	x				x			x
– Danish	x
– Norwegian	X

IX. In the event that you do not meet the level of language proficiency required for the post of judge in an official language [the second], please confirm your intention to follow intensive language classes of the language concerned prior to, and if need be also at the beginning of, your term of duty if elected a judge on the Court.

X. Other relevant information

XI. Please confirm that you will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge on the Court

I confirm that I would take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected.

Appendix 2 – Jukka LINDSTEDT

CURRICULUM VITAE [(3) Text in bold indicates posts or missions held at present.]

I. Personal details

Lindstedt, Jukka

Sex: Male

Date and place of birth: 17.12.1958 Helsinki

Nationality: Finnish

II. Education and academic and other qualifications

• Doctor of Laws, University of Helsinki, 1999
• Licentiate of Laws, University of Helsinki, 1987
• Master of Laws with Court Training, 1985
• Master of Laws, University of Helsinki, 1980
• Docent (criminal law), University of Helsinki, 2014-
• Docent (public law and its history), National Defence University, 2011-
• “Realizing Human Rights through Criminal Law”, an advanced course, The Institute for Human Rights at Åbo Akademi University, August 2014 (admitted to the course)
• Course on University Pedagogy, University of Helsinki, 2013
• National Defence Course, National Defence University, 2008
• Management and Leadership, special vocational diploma (“JET”), Amiedu, 2007
• Court training, Toijala Judicial District, 1985

III. Relevant professional activities

a. Description of judicial activities

• Justice, Helsinki Court of Appeal, 1.9.-31.12.2014
• Justice, Supreme Administrative Court, 1.5.-31.12.2012
• Trainee Judge and acting Circuit Judge, Toijala Judicial District, 1.1.-20.8. and 18.10.-1.11.1985
• Trainee Legal Aid Counsel and Legal Aid Counsel, City of Espoo, 9.4.1980-7.2.1981

b. Description of non-judicial legal activities

• Counsellor of Legislation, Ministry of Justice, 5/1996-10/2004, 3/2012-4/2012 and 1/2013-

Advanced law drafting mainly in the field of criminal law (inter alia: the general part of the Criminal Code, sex offences, trafficking in human beings, terrorist offences, military offences), also in the fields of Criminal Investigation Act and Coercive Measures Act and a law regulating compensation for interning of civilians in Finland after World War II

• Legal Adviser and Member of the Cabinet of the President of the Republic of Finland, 1/2010-2/2012
• Secretary General (acting), Office of the Parliamentary Ombudsman, 10/2009-12/2009
• Parliamentary Deputy-Ombudsman of Finland, 10/2005-9/2009

Decision-making concerning complaints, inspections and own initiatives in the fields of the police, prosecution service, defence forces, educational system, aliens’ rights, linguistic rights, data protection, church affairs and traffic and communication

• Research Director, The National Archives of Finland, 11/2004-9/2005

Director in the research project “Finland, Prisoners of War and Extraditions 1939-1955”

• Researcher, National Research Institute of Legal Policy, 1/1983-12/1984, 8/1985-10/1985, 11/1985-9/1991 and 8/1994-4/1996
• Assistant Lecturer (criminal law), University of Helsinki, 8/1992-7/1994
• Researcher with a scholarship, 10/1991-7/1992
• Research Assistant (criminal law), University of Helsinki, 1/1982-12/1982

c. Description of non-legal professional activities

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IV. Activities and experience in the field of human rights

I have a wide experience in the field of human rights. Especially my professional experience as Deputy-Ombudsman offered a good opportunity to oversee the applying of human rights in the fields of, for example, the police, defence forces, aliens’ rights and linguistic rights. According to the Finnish Constitution ombudsmen oversee that human rights and fundamental rights are put into practice in Finland.

In my occupations as Justice in the Supreme Administrative Court, Counsellor of Legislation in the Ministry of Justice and Legal Adviser of the President of the Republic of Finland I have dealt with application of fundamental and human rights. My forthcoming occupation as Justice in Helsinki Court of Appeal offers me again a new perspective to application of human rights in judicature.

Because of my wide professional experience I have a good command of not only criminal law but also of other branches of public law.

I was the chairman of the National Discrimination Tribunal in 2004-2005. This period was vital because this new organization in the field of human rights was founded in 2004.

As a deputy member of the Board of Forensic Psychiatry (which held its meetings weekly) I took part in a significant number of decisions concerning assessment of mental condition of accused persons.

Most of my research has dealt with fundamental and human rights. My special subject has been fundamental and human rights in times of war and other exceptional circumstances.

V. Public activities

a. Public office

• Advisory Board for Police Affairs, deputy member, 2014-
• Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, deputy member of the arbitrator, 2007-
• National Discrimination Tribunal, chairman, 2004-2005
• Board of Forensic Psychiatry, deputy member, 2003-2005
• Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology, member, 1998-2003
• Chairman or member in several working groups of various ministries, especially in the field of drafting criminal law, 1987-

b. Elected posts

—

c. Posts held in a political party or movement

—

VI. Other activities

a. Field

Participation in the mentoring programme of the Finnish Council of State.

Teaching in the University of Helsinki (two courses).

b. Duration

Mentoring programme: 2004-2005 (as a mentee) and 2013-2014 (as a mentor).

Teaching: 2012 and 2013.

VII. Publications and other works

Total number

One book (dissertation), 18 research reports and longer scientific articles, 53 shorter scientific or other articles and book reviews. An unpublished thesis for a special vocational diploma in management and leadership.

Most important titles

Book:

• Kuolemaan tuomitut. Kuolemanrangaistukset Suomessa toisen maailmansodan aikana. (Summary: Under Sentence of Death. Capital Punishment in Finland during World War II.) Dissertation.1999, 680 p.

Other important publications:

• Sotasyyllisyysoikeudenkäynti. (“The Finnish War Guilt Trial.”) Together with Stiina Löytömäki. Publication of the Ministry of Justice. 2010. 100 p.
• Discrimination Based on Ethnic Origin. In the book Parliamentary Ombudsman 90 years. 2010, pp. 138-169.
• Teloitukset – ampumiset. (“Executions and Shootings by a Superior in the Finnish Army.”) In the book Teloitettu totuus – kesä 1944 (“The Executed Truth – Summer 1944”). 2008, pp. 101-145.
• Turvallisuus, kontrollipolitiikka ja laillisuusvalvonta. (“Security, Control Policy and the Oversight of Legality.”) Lakimies 2007, pp. 1006-1037.
• Terrorismipuitepäätös ja suomalaiset terrorismia koskevat rangaistussäännökset. (”The Council Framework Decision on Combating Terrorism and the Finnish Penal Provisions Concerning Terrorist Offences.”) Anniversary Publication for Professor Raimo Lahti, 2006, pp. 231-250.
• Juutalaisten sotavankien luovutukset. (“The Deportation of Jewish Prisoners of War.”) Historiallinen Aikakauskirja 2004, pp. 144-165.
• Vilket är förhållandet mellan EU:s rambeslut om bekämpande av terrorism och de grundläggande fri- och rättigheterna? (“What is the Relationship between the Council Framework Decision on Combating Terrorism and Fundamental Rights?”) Tidskrift utgiven av Juridiska Föreningen I Finland 2002, pp. 436-451.
• Valtio näyttää voimansa – Arndt Pekurisen viimeiset päivät syksyllä 1941. (”The State Shows Its Power – The Last Days of Conscientous Objector Arndt Pekurinen, during the Autumn of 1941.”) Lakimies 1995, pp. 1045-1065.
• Eduskunnan oikeusasiamies ja varusmiesten oikeudet. (“The Parliamentary Ombudsman and the Rights of the Conscripts.”) Tiede ja Ase 1988, pp. 130-159.

VIII. Languages

Language	Reading			Writing			Speaking
	very good	good	fair	very good	good	fair	very good	good	fair
a. First language:
– Finnish (mother tongue)	x			x			x
b. Official languages:
– English	x				x			x
– French		x				x			x
c. Other language:
– Swedish	x				x			x

IX. In the event that you do not meet the level of language proficiency required for the post of judge in an official language [the second], please confirm your intention to follow intensive language classes of the language concerned prior to, and if need be also at the beginning of, your term of duty if elected a judge on the Court

I read, understand and use English well and French sufficiently well. Thus I suppose that I meet the level of language proficiency. However, in case that I do not meet the level needed, I confirm my intention to follow intensive language classes.

X. Other relevant information

—

XI. Please confirm that you will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge on the Court

I confirm that I will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge on the Court.

Appendix 3 – Anne Elina NIEMI

CURRICULUM VITAE

I. Personal details

Name, forename: Niemi, Anne Elina

Sex: female

Date and place of birth: 28 July 1959, Kotka, Finland

Nationality: Finnish

II. Education and academic and other qualifications

Degrees

• 2004 – Licentiate of Laws (LL.Lic), Helsinki University, a scientific postgraduate degree (in Finland there are two postgraduate degrees: licentiate and doctor); the degree comprises studies in:
  • Administrative Law
  • European Law

Licentiate thesis: Administrative Litigation as an Effective Remedy (182 p.) (grade: laudatur)

The thesis deals with the requirements of effectiveness of legal remedies on the basis of national law, case law of the European Court of Human Rights and EU law

• 1988 – Lawyer trained on the Bench, in Finnish varatuomari, in Swedish vicehäradshövding
• 1983 – Master of Laws (LL.M.), Helsinki University
• 1978 – Matriculation examination, Lyceum of Kotka (Kotkan Yhteislyseo)

Other qualifications

• 2013 – Specialist Qualification in Management, Management Institute of Finland. Modules of the Qualification:
  • Leadership
  • Human Resources Management

III. Relevant professional activities

a. Description of judicial activities

Full-time

• 2005-… Justice, Supreme Administrative Court of Finland

April 2014 to date: acting chair of a section (there are three sections in the Supreme Administrative Court)

November 2012 – March 2014: vice-chair of a section

As Justice, participated extensively in different fields of law, e.g. cases concerning Local Government Act, Act on the Openness of Government Activities, Building and Environmental Law, Migration Law and Social Law (including child care cases)

• 2002-2004 – see b. below
• 2001 – Judge, Administrative Court of Helsinki (9 months)
• 1999 – Temporary Lawyer, European Court of Human Rights (May - July; 3 months)
• 1997-2000 – see b. below
• 1996 – Temporary Lawyer, European Commission of Human Rights (June 1995 - June 1996; 12 months)
• 1992-1995 – Legal Secretary, Supreme Administrative Court of Finland (reporting official)
• 1987-1991 – Legal Secretary, County Administrative Court of Uusimaa

1983-1985

• 1986 – Clerk, Circuit of Janakkala

Part-time

• 2010, July – ad hoc judge, European Court of Human Rights

case of Niskasaari and others v. Finland

case of Mariapori v. Finland

• 2009, July – ad hoc judge, European Court of Human Rights

case of D. v. Finland

• 2008 – Deputy Member, Judicial Appointments Board of Finland

(independent Administrative Body that makes preparations for the filling of positions in the judiciary and a reasoned proposal on an appointment to a position in the judiciary except as regards the Supreme Court and the Supreme Administrative Court)

• 2011-2014 on the list of ad hoc judges submitted by Finland to the European Court of Human Rights

b. Description of non-judicial legal activities

• 2002-2004 – Special Adviser, Ministry of Justice of Finland

Secretary of a Commission appointed to study the Development Trends of the Court System in Finland

• 1997-2000 – Secretary of Media and Communications Service,

Supreme Administrative Court of Finland

included also tasks related to the Court's international relations during these years Media and Communication studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Helsinki University/Open University

c. Description of non-legal professional activities -

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IV. Activities and experience in the field of human rights

V. Public activities

a. Public office

b. Elected posts

c. Posts held in a political party or movement

None.

VI. Other activities

a. Field / b. Duration / c. Functions

VI.1

a. the National Advisory Board on Social Affairs and Health Care Ethics, (before August 2009: National Advisory Board on Health Care Ethics)

b. 2006-2014 (i.e. two four-year mandates)

c. Member of the Board (one of the two members representing the judicial viewpoint)

VI.2

a. Ethical Principles for Judges

b. May 2010-March 2012

c. Member of Working Group preparing Ethical Guidelines for Judges

The Finnish Association of Judges approved the Ethical Principles for Judges in May 2012 based on the proposal of the working group

VI.3

a. Training for Law Students, Nordic Court Competition, in Swedish Nordiska rättegångstävlingen

The competition is for Nordic Law Students on the European Convention on Human Rights and is conducted in the Scandinavian languages (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish)

b. yearly as from 2009

c. performing as a judge in simulated trials of fictitious cases

VI.4

a. assisting in training of Administrative Courts' judicial personnel

b. regularly

c. lecturer in the areas of local government law and migration law

VII. Publications and other works

In Finnish

• Hannus - Hallberg - Niemi, 2008, Kuntalaki (721 p.),a commentary on the Local Government Act
• Licentiate thesis: Hallintoriita tehokkaana oikeussuojakeinona (“Administrative Litigation as an Effective Remedy”), 2004, see part II. above
• “Tehokkaan oikeussuojan piirteitä” (”Characteristics of Effective Remedies”), in Avoin, tehokas ja riippumaton (“Open, Effective and Independent”), a publication to honour professor Olli Mäenpää on his 60th birthday, 2010, (p. 261-271)
• “Hallintoriita ennen ja nyt” (“Administrative Litigation earlier and now”), in a 90 years jubilee publication of the Supreme Administrative Court, 2008, (p. 322-338)

In English

“The Civil, Criminal and Disciplinary Liability of Judges”, in Finnish legal system and recent development:

XVIIth International Congress of Comparative Law organised by the International Academy of Comparative Law, 2006, (p. 113-127)

VIII. Languages

Language	Reading			Writing			Speaking
	very good	good	fair	very good	good	fair	very good	good	fair
a. First language:
– Finnish	X			X			X
b. Official languages:
– English	X			X			X
– French		X				X		X
c. Other languages:
– Swedish	X			X			X
– German		X				X			X

IX.

X. Other relevant information

XI. I confirm that I will take up a permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a Judge on the Court.