Mikko Rajavuori
mijora@utu.fi Office: 3019 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4141-8118 |
economic law; business law & sustainability; international economic law; climate law; human rights
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.
- Investment screening: Implications for the energy sector and energy security (2020)
- Energy Policy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Transnational sustainability laws and the regulation of global value chains: Comparison and a framework for analysis (2019)
- Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Governing the Good State Shareholder: The Case of the OECD Guidelines on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises (2018)
- European Business Law Review
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - How should states own? : human rights and the fiduciary state shareholder (2018) Rajavuori Mikko
(G4 Monograph dissertation) - Making International Legal Persons in Investment Treaty Arbitration: State-owned Enterprises along the Person/Thing Distinction (2017)
- German Law Journal
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Special Issue (German Law Journal): Traditions, Myths, and Utopias of Personhood (2017) Toni Selkälä, Mikko Rajavuori
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - State Ownership and Climate Change Mitigation: Overcoming the Carbon Curse? (2017)
- Carbon and Climate Law Review
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Contribution of State-Owned Enterprises to Climate Change Mitigation in China (2017)
- Climate Law
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Traditions , Myths, and Utopias of Personhood: An Introduction (2017)
- German Law Journal
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Introduction: Imagining Post-Neoliberal Regulatory Subjectivities (2016)
- Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - National fossil fuel companies and climate change mitigation under international law (2016)
- Syracuse journal of international law and commerce
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Special Issue (Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies): Imagining Post-Neoliberal Regulatory Subjectivities (2016) Mika Viljanen, Mikko Rajavuori, Tal Kastner
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - State ownership and climate change mitigation: Overcoming the carbon curse? (2016) Benoit Mayer, Mikko Rajavuori
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - State Ownership and the United Nations Business and Human Rights Agenda: Three Instruments, Three Narratives (2016)
- Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Valtiollinen rahasto Suomeen? (2016)
- Politiikasta.fi
(E1 Popularised article) - A Missed Human Rights Opportunity: The Revision of the OECD’s Guidelines on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises (2015)
- Regarding Rights Blog
(E1 Popularised article) - How Should States Own? Heinisch v. Germany and the Emergence of Human Rights-Sensitive State Ownership Function (2015)
- European Journal of International Law
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - State Ownership and Corporate Social Responsibility Agenda in International Instruments - Coping with Conflicting Regulatory Rationales? (2014) Safeguarding Human Rights and Constructing the Rule of Law: A Comparison between China and Finland Mikko Rajavuori
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Yritysvastuu ja yhtiön etu Arctia Shipping -tapauksen valossa (2014)
- Lakimies
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - State-owned Enterprises in Business and Human Rights Agenda (2012) COST Seminar, Åbo Akademi Rajavuori Mikko
(D3 Article in a professional conference publication)