Editor’s Note: Slush, the not-for-profit startup event, has grown from a 250-person gathering in 2008 into a week that brings thousands of founders and investors to Helsinki each November. For its Nov. 18 and 19 main event, organizers say they
In October we wrote a piece discussing the difficulties in bringing a criminal case for submarine cable damage, looking at the Eagle S case in Finland. Our colleague Pia Bräysy from our Helsinki office has informed us of the following
Helsinki has become the third of the world’s capital cities to decide that it doesn’t want to run its city gTLD after all. The City of Helsinki has notified ICANN that it wants to terminate its registry contract for .helsinki,
Explora I Launch Delayed Due to Failed Fire Safety Certification
According to a blockbuster article in the Financial Times titled Luxury Cruise Liner’s Launch Delayed as Dozens of Ships Face Potential Safety Hazard, construction materials used in the building
Past September Helsinki welcomed legal innovators from all over the world to share their thoughts on what the future of the legal industry should look like. The Legal Design Summit took place for the third time, with over 600 participants flying in from
Tuomo Mörä, University of Helsinki, has published The Challenge of Internet and Social Media on Shield Law Legislation: The Four Dimensions of Reporter’s Privilege. Here is the abstract.Journalists’ right to use confidential information and anonymous sources is considered to be
The D&O Diary’s current European assignment continued this past weekend with a visit to Finland’s capital city, Helsinki. With a urban area population of about 1.4 million, Helsinki is a little larger than Oslo, and at about 61 degrees northern latitude,
In May, 2013, a Finnish team of medical researchers led by M. Aratma published a study in Drug Safety titled “Effects of maternal epilepsy and antiepileptic drug use during pregnancy on perinatal health in offspring: nationwide, retrospective cohort study
Titled “Infant and childhood neurodevelopmental outcomes following prenatal exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors: overview and design of a Finnish Register-Based Study (FinESSI).”, an article by a team of prominent SSRI-birth defect researchers led by H. Malm (2012)
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has this week reaffirmed his strong commitment to convene a United Nations-sponsored Conference on the establishment of a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and all other weapons of mass destruction in Helsinki, Finland,
