SAMULI MARKUS MIETTINEN

What Role for Legal Education?
Experiences of Competition, Cooperation and Diversity in Northern Europe

Legal education has a more local flavour then many subjects in university curricula due to the requirement that regulated professions typically place on the study of national law. I draw from personal experiences since 2005 teaching in law faculties in the United Kingdom, Finland and Estonia during which these educational systems also experienced significant structural changes. What do practitioners- and the state when contributing to the cost of education- expect from legal education? Does this match what universities are equipped- or should- provide- in a time when information is more widely available? Are there any lessons to be learned from the different sizes, levels of competition and cooperation, and diversity across the providers in these environments?

Samuli Markus Miettinen is Associate Professor of Transnational Law at Tallinn University and holds the title of docent in European law at the Universities of Helsinki and Lapland. His work focuses on European and transnational law, with particular attention to constitutional and institutional developments in a comparative perspective.

In his research and teaching, he engages with questions of legal integration, governance, and the interaction between national and supranational legal orders. He has also reflected on the organisation of legal education in different European contexts, including issues of competition, cooperation, and institutional diversity.