Mika Viljanen
OTT
mivevi@utu.fi +358 29 450 4430 +358 40 593 4210 Caloniankuja 3 Turku Office: 3013 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-0156 |
Areas of expertise
Regulation of artificial intelligence, private law theory, torts, contracts, contracting, financial regulation, banking regulation
Regulation of artificial intelligence, private law theory, torts, contracts, contracting, financial regulation, banking regulation
Biography
I am a legal scholar with a background in private law. Currently, I concentrate on studying law, artificial intelligence and regulatory theory.
I work as a professor of private law at the Faculty.
Research
My work mixes legal theory, socio-legal studies approaches, and doctrinal work. In 2008, I defended my dissertation on quantifying damages in torts and for breach of contract. Since that I've retained an interest in traditional private law themes, including contract and torts, but migrated through financial regulation to regulatory theory and artificial intelligence.
I have been active in numerous research projects. Current projects include ETAROS and FLAIG.
Teaching
Most of my teaching focuses on private law. I'm responsible for the compulsory study module on the law of obligations, a specialization field study module on contract and torts, the advanced studies on the law of obligations, and a number of elective courses. I also coach the Faculty Willem C. Vis Moot Court team.
Publications 
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- Legal Compliance and the Open Texture of Law (2025)
- Journal of the Association for Information Systems
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A Horizontal Meta-effect? Theorising Human Rights in the AI Act and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (2024) YSEC Yearbook of Socio-Economic Constitutions 2023 : Law and the Governance of Artificial Intelligence Viljanen Mika
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Functional Contracting: Re-Conceptualizing Business Contracts in the Face of New Forms of Production (2024)
- Georgia journal of international and comparative law
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Greenhouse gas emissions in global value chains: governance, regulation and liability (2024) Corporate Accountability and Liability for Climate Change Salminen, Jaakko; Rajavuori, Mikko; Viljanen, Mika
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Horisontaalivaikutuksen uudet kuteet? Tekoälysäädöksen ja yritysvastuuvelvollisuusdirektiivin ihmisoikeus- ja perusoikeusvaikutuksien jäljillä (2023) Yritys, kirjanpito, kestävyys - Juhlajulkaisu Jukka Mähönen Viljanen Mika
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - How to Ensure Safe Navigation: Navigation Safety Regulation in MASS (2023) Autonomous Vessels in Maritime Affairs: Law and Governance Implications Viljanen Mika
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Lost in Transduction: From Law and Code’s Intra-actions to the Right to Explanation in the European Data Protection Regulations (2023)
- Law and Critique
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Menikö juna jo? Tekoälyn sääntelemisen mahdollisuuksista (2023)
- Lakimies
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Safety by simulation: theorizing the future of robot regulation (2023)
- AI and Society
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Strateginen resilienssi ja ylikansalliset arvoketjut: kohti uutta talousoikeutta (2023)
- Lakimies
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - AI Applications and Regulation: Mapping the Regulatory Strata (2022)
- Frontiers in Computer Science
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Defining organizational AI governance (2022)
- AI and ethics
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Digital Platforms as Second-Order Lead Firms: Beyond the Industrial/Digital Divide in Regulating Value Chains (2022)
- European Review of Private Law
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Dynamics of Social Harms in an Algorithmic Context (2022)
- International journal for crime, justice and social democracy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Justice, Power and Resistance Volume 5 (2022): Issue 3 (Dec 2022): Special Issue: Algorithmic harms (2022)
- Justice, Power and Resistance
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Social harms in an algorithmic context (2022)
- Justice, Power and Resistance
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Technology matters: how algorithm and artificial intelligent technology features affect harms reduction efforts (2022)
- Justice, Power and Resistance
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Yksityisoikeudellinen vastuu yritysvastuuvelvoitteesta (2022) Yritysvastuu & oikeus Viljanen Mika, Salminen Jaakko, Rajavuori Mikko
(D2 Article in a professional compilation book) - Antroposeenin varallisuusoikeus (2021)
- Oikeus
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Insuring autonomous vessels: Scoping the issues (2021) Autonomous Ships and the Law Viljanen Mika
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book)
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