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Short curriculum vitae of Prof. Dr. J. Karhu

Born 1953, Helsinki, Finland;
PhD in Law, University of Helsinki, 1988 ("The Adjustment of Unfair Contracts");
Post-doctoral research at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (London), 1989-1990;
Professor of Contract and Tort Law at the University of Lapland since 1993;
Current research: States' law (including EC law), market's law and societies' law as three forms of modern law;
General doctrines of Scandinavian tort law;
The role of changing circumstances in Finnish contract law;
Chinese commercial law.

 

 

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