FINLAND

Honorary President:	Aulis Aarnio	CONTACT Kimmo Nuotio kimmo.nuotio@helsinki.fi Copy to: sofy-ivr@helsinki.fi WEBSITE http://www.helsinki.fi/~sofy_ry/
President:	Kimmo Nuotio
Vice President:	Jussi Kotkavirta
Secretary:	Sakari Melander
Other Members:	Heta Gylling Aleksi Heinilä Jari Kauppinen Stiina Löytömäki Kevät Nousiainen Kaarlo Tuori

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News

The Autumn Meeting of the Finnish National Section was dedicated to the memory of the great Finnish philosopher Georg Henrik von Wright (1916 - 2003), who died in June last year (see the announcement in IVR Newsletter No. 31). The meeting took place in Helsinki at the House of the Sciences on December, 4, 2003. Honorary President Aulis Aarnio and professor Eerik Lagerspetz had their presentations concerning the significance of the work of von Wright as regards the development of the Finnish legal thinking. The text of Aulis Aarnio has later been published in Finnish in the periodical Lakimies ("Muistikuvia – Georg von Wright ja suomalainen oikeusajattelu"; Pictures of Memory – Georg Henrik von Wright and the Finnish Legal Thinking, Lakimies 2004/3, pp. 502 -515).

On the same occasion two new books were also published: Francois Ewald's, Normi yhteisen mittapuun käytäntönä [Norm as Practise of a Shared Yardstick] (The book consists of two parts, the other one is written by Kaarlo Tuori), Suomalaisen Lakimiesyhdistyksen julkaisuja, Helsinki 2003, and, Kimmo Nuotio (ed.), Oikeusteoreettisia katkelmia (Fragments to a Legal Theory), Suomalaisen Lakimiesyhdistyksen julkaisuja, Helsinki 2003. The latter book, which was dedicated to the memory of G. H. von Wright, includes five lengthier articles which focus on the work of five different legal thinkers. Aulis Aarnio writes about the work of Alf Ross, Eerik Lagerspetz about that of von Wright, and Kimmo Nuotio about that of Aarnio himself.

The National Section held its annual meeting in Helsinki on March 31, 2004. A new board was elected. Professor Kimmo Nuotio renewed his position as the President of the National Section, and lecturer, PhD Jussi Kotkavirta took the vice precidency. LL.D. Toomas Kotkas held the annual meeting lecture: "On Immanuel Kant's views on pardon and on the interpretations given to them".

The national section had its annual spring term meeting at the University of Jyväskylä. Vice president Jussi Kotkavirta chaired the sessions. On the list were the following topics: Kimmo Nuotio, "On Republicanism as understood by Philip Pettit", Arto Laitinen, "On theories of recognition and the question of justice", Heikki Ikäheimo, "Social ontology and the relationships of recognition", Samuli Hurri, "Yvonne van Duyn's unacceptable commitment", Jari Kauppinen, "Lying and politics".

Announcements

The Research Institute for Social Sciences of the University of Tampere will arrange together with the National Graduate School in Legal Studies in November 11 - 12, 2004 in Tampere a seminar on "Society, Law, Human Being - and the World. Justice in Legal and Social Sciences".Contacts: juha.karhu@ulapland.fi.