Currently acting as the Professor of
International Law at the University of Helsinki. She is one
of the three founders of the Erik Castrén Institute of
International Law and Human Rights of the University of
Helsinki and has since 1998 been a Research Fellow at the
Institute. From that time onwards she has also held a
variety of academic positions in the law faculties of
Finland in the fields of public international law, legal
theory, constitutional law and European Union law. In
addition to Finland, she has lectured in various European
universities as well as in the Middle East and Africa; in
2005 she gave a lecture series in an American Bar
Association winterim program in the Caribbean. Ms Petman has
an LL.M. in U.S. Legal Studies from the University of
Connecticut School of Law and also holds a degree in
International Politics from Helsinki. In autumn 2000 she
worked as a researcher at The Hague Academy of International
Law and was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Amsterdam Centre for
International Law in spring 2004. She has also worked as a
consultant for the ministries of foreign affairs of Finland
and the Netherlands in Africa. She is the former Executive
Editor of the Finnish Yearbook of International Law
and now serves as the Chair of the Yearbook’s Editorial
Advisory Board. Ms Petman is the author of a textbook on the
law governing the use of force and has published several
articles in public international law, human rights, legal
theory and law and literature. She is presently finishing
her PhD that carries the working title Human Rights and
Violence: the Hope and the Memory of the New Order (For
a list of publications and further details, please see
http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/blogs/eci/Jarna.pdf.)
Currently acting as the Professor of
International Law at the University of Helsinki. She is one
of the three founders of the Erik Castrén Institute of
International Law and Human Rights of the University of
Helsinki and has since 1998 been a Research Fellow at the
Institute. From that time onwards she has also held a
variety of academic positions in the law faculties of
Finland in the fields of public international law, legal
theory, constitutional law and European Union law. In
addition to Finland, she has lectured in various European
universities as well as in the Middle East and Africa; in
2005 she gave a lecture series in an American Bar
Association winterim program in the Caribbean. Ms Petman has
an LL.M. in U.S. Legal Studies from the University of
Connecticut School of Law and also holds a degree in
International Politics from Helsinki. In autumn 2000 she
worked as a researcher at The Hague Academy of International
Law and was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Amsterdam Centre for
International Law in spring 2004. She has also worked as a
consultant for the ministries of foreign affairs of Finland
and the Netherlands in Africa. She is the former Executive
Editor of the Finnish Yearbook of International Law
and now serves as the Chair of the Yearbook’s Editorial
Advisory Board. Ms Petman is the author of a textbook on the
law governing the use of force and has published several
articles in public international law, human rights, legal
theory and law and literature. She is presently finishing
her PhD that carries the working title Human Rights and
Violence: the Hope and the Memory of the New Order (For
a list of publications and further details, please see