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This autumn, 72 new law students have commenced their studies at the in Helsinki. A total of 167 Tallinn University students are now studying at the Helsinki branch.

While most students are Finnish, the number also includes Estonians living in Finland. The lectures are delivered by members of the Tallinn University teaching staff and visiting lecturers from the University of Helsinki.

The TU Law School opened a branch in Helsinki in 2012. Because half of the Tallinn University students studying under the Bachelor’s level law programme in English at the university in Tallinn were citizens of Finland, is was appropriate that a study group should be opened in Helsinki also.

Professor Rein Müllerson, President of the Tallinn University Law School, said: "Expanding studies in English was a result of internationalisation of higher education and the increasingly closer cooperation between the Tallinn and Helsinki universities. In order to provide better learning opportunities for people interested in law studies, we commenced teaching in Helsinki as well as in Tallinn. We have customized our study programmes according to the needs of the target group – for example, we have added a module of Finnish law."

The first year law students of the TU Law School in Helsinki. Photo: Kadri Kiigema.

is an academic unit of Tallinn University, which in teaching law, is a successor to the Academy Nord established in 1991. The goal of the Law School is to provide a research-based university education in law and related fields at all levels of higher education. A further goal is to conduct research and continuing education, and provide legal studies in the required volume to other university units.  A total of 697 students are studying at the TU Law School, of which 167 are studying at the Helsinki branch.

The President of Tallinn University Law School professor Rein Müllerson is Estonian Law Researcher and Lecturer. He has worked in London University King’s College, London School of Economics and Political Science, Columbia University, National University of Moscow, Human Rights Committee of UN, and as the advisor of international law for Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR (M. Gorbachev). Rein Müllerson is also  a member of several international academic journal panels and president of the most prestigious law organisation in the world, .

On 4th September, to celebrate the start of the new academic year, the students were greeted by Indrek Grauberg, Vice-president of the Law School; Kadri Kiigema, TU marketing manager; and Jyro Poutala, president of the Primus Collegium, which is the student representative body of the Helsinki branch.