International Actors and the Formation of Laws
Iina Tornberg conducts doctoral research in the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, Finland. Her doctoral research deals with EU competition rules and their application in international commercial arbitration. Ms. Tornberg has lectured on private international law and arbitration at the University of Helsinki and been a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Ms. Tornberg was a secretary of the Finnish Branch of the International Law Association during 2017–2019 as well as a board member of the Finnish Committee of the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL) and International Association of Legal Science. She works currently as a court of appeal referendary at the Helsinki Court of Appeal, Finland.
Aleksi Pursiainen, LLM (Helsinki), is the founder and CEO of Solid Plan Consulting Ltd., a leading Finnish boutique law firm focused on international sanctions and export controls, where he regularly advises many of the largest Nordic exporters, financial institutions, and technology companies on a comprehensive range of legal and policy issues related to compliance with trade regulations. His publications include Kansainväliset pakotteet ja vientivalvonta (International Sanctions and Export Controls Alma Talent, 2021), the first Finnish textbook on this topic. Before private practice, Mr. Pursiainen was head of Trade Compliance at Nokia Corporation’s legal division, and before that he was head of the sanctions team at the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and a member of Finland’s delegation to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).