Mikko Rajavuori is Assistant Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Turku. 

In addition to is academic work, Rajavuori advises companies, NGOs and the government on issues as varied as corporate governance, foreign investment and business & human rights.  

Before his appointment, Rajavuori worked as Academy of Finland Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Climate change, Energy, and Environmental law (CCEEL), University of Eastern Finland.

Rajavuori specializes in economic law both at the national and international level. His research interests cover business law, human rights and investment law as well as sustainability regulation. Rajavuori's scholarship has appeared in prolific international journals, including Regulation & Governance, European Journal of International Law, Transnational Legal Theory and Energy Policy, and in several edited collections published by Cambridge University Press and Edward Elgar.  

Rajavuori has lead two research projects funded by the Academy of Finland. His Academy of Finland’s Postdoctoral Fellow project 'The Law of the Green Developmental State: State Shareholders in Climate Governance' (9/2019-3/2022) analysed how divergent legal systems structurize, shape and legitimize the state’s direct market interventions as a form of climate governance. 

Rajavuori's on-going subproject in research consortium 'Law for Secure Supply: Internalizing the Crisis Exceptions' (LEXSECURE, 8/2020-11/2023) focuses on  screening of cross-border investments and mergers as a function security of supply regulation.  

Currently, Rajavuori teaches three courses.

At the undergraduate level, he is responsible for the basic module on Corporate Law as well as a specialization course on the Principles of Sustainable Business Law.

At the graduate level, Rajavuori teaches the advanced course Company in the Global Economy and Society.