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Kaisa Kärki @kaisakarki.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Our paper (written with @visakurki.bsky.social) came out this week in Neuroethics. We argue that there are legal norms that regulate when a person can concentrate. These norms can be used to build concentration spaces the protect concentration-requiring tasks from digital distraction.

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The Right to Concentrate

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Jukka Mähönen @mahonen.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Great personnel news at @helsinki.fi Faculty of Law! Our Rector has appointed @visakurki.bsky.social as Full Professor of Jurisprudence as of 1 January 2026. Congratulations, Visa! www.helsinki.fi/fi/tutustu-m...

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Visa Anton Julius Kurki | Henkilöhaku | Helsingin yliopisto

apulaisprofessori, toinen kausi | Oikeustieteellinen tiedekunta

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Marcia Condoy Truyenque 🦄⭐️ @marciagovinda.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Very happy to announce the Helsinki Animal Law Conference 2026: "Reimagining Justice Across Species”. Our keynotes are @annepetersmpil.bsky.social and @jeffsebo.bsky.social You are invited to submit your application ✨ See you in June! www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg... #animallaw

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Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law @animalrightslaw.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

We also enjoyed the first keynote address of our Conference, presented by Dr @visakurki.bsky.social (Associate Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Helsinki). ⭐️ Dr Kurki closed the first day of the Conference with his keynote address "Why Animals Already Hold Rights" (2/2) #EARLCon2025

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Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law @animalrightslaw.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

⭐️ Dr @visakurki.bsky.social Kurki and Dr Saskia Stucki delivered outstanding keynote addresses at this year's Conference. 🎤 Ruud Tombrock, Richard Ryder, and David Bilchitz spoke during our "Past lessons and future prospects" panel on the final day of the Conference. (3/5)

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Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law @animalrightslaw.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

This event will also feature two dynamic keynote addresses delivered by @visakurki.bsky.social (Associate Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Helsinki) and Dr Saskia Stucki (ZHAW School of Management and Law). (2/3)

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LEGACY: Agency in Law @legacy-hu.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

LEGACY project member publication alert ✨⬇️

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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

How will Trump’s trade war affect global CO2 emissions and energy? Initial thoughts.

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Salla Tuomivaara @tuomivaara.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Ensi viikon tiistaina Turussa! Millainen on eläinten asema modernissa kulutusyhteiskunnassa? Miten vallitsevat valtarakenteet muovaavat suhdettamme toisiin lajeihin? Tervetuloa kuulemaan ja keskustelemaan! blogit.utu.fi/kultva/event... @benjaminpitkanen.bsky.social @visakurki.bsky.social

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Jani Erola @janierola.net · 27/03/2025

My US-based colleagues, FYI: Finnish Research Council is about to announce a special call to fund researchers abroad to relocate to Finland. By all means this is not intended to lure you into moving to Finland, it just happens to be planned right now by pure chance.

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Visa Kurki @visakurki.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I've been asked to serve on the dissertation committee of someone doing a PhD at a US university. I'm a little confused. It seems almost like the role of a supervisor in Finland (or the UK). Yet it's unpaid(?). Anyone care to explain how this works?

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Visa Kurki @visakurki.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

In this world, rejoicing about paper acceptance seems a little... not-sure-what... But: our paper, "Toward an Agency Turn in Animal Law", co-authored with Paulina Siemieniec, was just accepted by the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies! Very pleased!

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Visa Kurki @visakurki.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Just a couple more days to submit an abstract for our conference on agency in August!

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Visa Kurki @visakurki.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Facts about the war in Ukraine: understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

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Visa Kurki @visakurki.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

US authorities now demanding Helsinki University to remove words like "climate change" and "equal society" from a Fulbright scholarship call. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

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Visa Kurki @visakurki.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

10+ permanent positions open in Finland, related to AI: -Machine Learning, -AI Business Applications -Law & AI -Digital Art Etc. www.ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit

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Principal Investigator positions at ELLIS Institute Finland | ELLIS Institute Finland

Now recruiting new PIs in artificial intelligence and machine learning

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Markku Seppälä @seppala.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

En ymmärrä mitä media odottaa. Monet asiantuntijat puhuvat jo Yhdysvalloissa meneillään olevasta vakavasti otettavasta vallankaappausyrityksestä. Sen kai pitäisi olla yksi vuosisatamme suurimmista uutisista. Missä ovat lehtien erikoisnumerot ja etusivun kokoiset otsikot?

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Visa Kurki @visakurki.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Dark thought of today: should European universities get ready to receive US academics soon, like the US did in the 1930s?

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Visa Kurki @visakurki.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Free speech absolutism is back! Seriously, what's going on in the States is *really* worrisome.

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Visa Kurki @visakurki.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

My review of Raffael Fasel's More Equal Than Others is now out. It's a great book, and warmly recommended. My main worry: his Species Membership Approach could legitimize arguments of the type "animals cannot bear duties and therefore should not hold rights". www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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More Equal Than Others: Humans and the Rights of Other Animals

Published in Jurisprudence: An International Journal of Legal and Political Thought (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Visa Kurki @visakurki.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

As part of this online course, I'm teaching a class entitled "Legal Theory of Animal Rights". I'm now drafting a syllabus, with three categories: 1. Introductory reading (chapter from Animal Rights Law) 2. Core readings 3. Further readings Any suggestions what to include?

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Contemporary Issues in Animal Rights Law Course — ICARE

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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 19/12/2024

We have an open PhD position in Practical Philosophy here at Stockholm University: www.su.se/english/abou... This is a fully funded position in any area of practical philosophy, which includes PPE and philosophy of economics. Swedish not required #philsky #philsci CC: @ppenetworkeurope.bsky.social

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Visa Kurki @visakurki.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

1. Write a paper draft 2. Present it at different workshops 3. Receive lots of extremely good feedback 4. Ignore the feedback because you're so fed up with the paper 5. Submit

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Joe Wills @drjoewills.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Probably the most consequential animal welfare ruling in the UK's history was handed down by the Court of Appeal yesterday. In essence, it found that farmers who rear fast-growing chickens - virtually all commercially-reared chickens - are acting illegally. thehumaneleague.org.uk/article/judg...

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Visa Kurki @visakurki.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Our Agency in Law project now has a Bluesky profile, a website - and a forthcoming conference! If you're interested eg in the agency of children, old people, people with disabilities, animals, AI systems, etc - do follow us! We also have a monthly online talk series and other interesting stuff. 😊

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Visa Kurki @visakurki.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Helsinki Law is hiring: - five(!) law lecturers, with one specifically earmarked for English-language teaching in private law: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... -three-year professor in sustainability law: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

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University lecturer in law (5 positions)

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Visa Kurki @visakurki.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

What's a good length for a conference abstract? I think 300 words is usually the sweet spot. Just trying to draft a 500-word abstract and it feels like a slog. On the other hand, I tend to be a rather concise writer.

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William Baude @williambaude.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Call For Papers! The University of Chicago 2025 Constitutional Law Conference seeks papers on any aspect of constitutional rights. Details here:

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UChicago Constitutional Law Conference 2025 Call for Papers | University of Chicago Law School

The Paper Submission Deadline is January 16, 2025. There is no charge for submissions.

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Visa Kurki @visakurki.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Attending a friend's PhD defense: "User-Centered Design of Game-Based Digital Mental Health Interventions" by Lauri Lukka. Seems Aalto University still has white-tie defenses (as does Helsinki Law).

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Visa Kurki @visakurki.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Finns tend to think that November is the worst of months because it's dark and cold but no snow. Well...

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Visa Kurki @visakurki.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Our ERC project Agency in Law is getting started with a monthly online talk series. Our first speaker is Jakob Stenseke, "Knowing and owing each other: on the moral agency of humans, animals, and machines” Time: Nov 20, 3pm Helsinki time (1pm London time) Register: www.lyyti.fi/reg/Seminar_...

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Monthly Seminar on Agency

ABSTRACT: There is a deep tension between two approaches to moral agency. (i) The first centers on capacities that a being must have in order to qualify as a moral agent. (ii) The second centers on ho...

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Visa Kurki @visakurki.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I've understood that the next IVR Congress will be in Turkey. But does anyone know the dates? (Let's see if my legal philosophy networks are robust enough on this platform...)

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

New Cambridge Element book 'Legal Personhood' by Visa Kurki. Open Access. @visakurki.bsky.social

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Legal Personhood

Cambridge Core - Legal Philosophy - Legal Personhood

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Visa Kurki @visakurki.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

I know applying for academic jobs can be stressful. But spare a thought to us who have to use the university recruitment system to access those applications...

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Visa Kurki @visakurki.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

An interesting compliment to someone (not me) who just landed an academic job: "Wittgenstein would be proud of you." I wonder what would make Wittgenstein proud?

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Visa Kurki @visakurki.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Do apply! The only downside is that you'll have to work with me.

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Visa Kurki @visakurki.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Ok, here goes: my first post. Greetings from Agra, India! Here is a guy making herbal tea from ingredients he makes in his garden. He went to the same school as my driver. Tomorrow heading to Udaipur for a wedding.

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