University of Turku · Faculty of Law

AI Law Lab.

We teach the EU AI law. We build responsible AI skills. We bring together the lawyers who work on AI.

Teaching in 2026–2027

AI courses at the Faculty of Law

This academic year, the Faculty teaches six courses with AI as the main topic. Three of the autumn courses are already running, and one more starts on 18 November. Two courses are taught in the spring. Enrolment instructions and details are in Peppi.

Running now · the Lab's own course

Artificial Intelligence in Legal Practice

OT00BH53 · 5 ECTS · Period II · Finnish

Responsible teacher: Antti Innanen

Students learn to use generative AI responsibly in legal work: in research, analysis, drafting and advice. In small groups, they solve a legal problem with AI.

Course in Peppi →

Running now

Law and Artificial Intelligence: Contracts and Liability

OT00BE71 · 3 ECTS · Period II · Finnish

Responsible teacher: Mika Viljanen

The course deals with contracting and liability in AI applications and algorithmic decision-making.

Course in Peppi →

Running now · specialisation course

Current Issues in the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence

OT00BH35 · 12 ECTS · Period II · Finnish

Responsible teacher: Juha Vesala

The specialisation course covers EU and Finnish rules on developing and using AI. Topics include copyright, competition law, data regulation and data protection.

Course in Peppi →

Starts 18 November

Law and Artificial Intelligence

OT00BE70 · 4 ECTS · Period II · English

Responsible teacher: Mika Viljanen

The course introduces the basics of AI technology and algorithmic decision-making, and the main legal challenges they raise.

Course in Peppi →

Spring · Period III

Law and Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to the Theme

OT00BE83 · 3 ECTS · Period III · Finnish

Responsible teacher: Mika Viljanen

An introductory course on the basic questions of law and AI and on how AI can be regulated.

Course in Peppi →

Spring · Period IV

Law and Artificial Intelligence: Between Public and Private Power

OT00BF00 · 3 ECTS · Period IV · Finnish

Responsible teacher: Elina Raitanen

The course looks at AI from the perspective of fundamental and human rights: discrimination, privacy, fair trial and transparency.

Course in Peppi →

Next event

AI in Research workshop on Monday 2 November

Faculty staff will use Claude to build tools for legal research. Our material is the case law of the Finnish Supreme Court and the Court of Justice of the EU.

For Faculty staff

Building research tools

10.00–16.00

We will work in four groups. Each group writes a skill (a set of instructions for Claude) and tests it. In the afternoon, the groups present their results and report where their tool did not work. You need no programming skills, but legal judgment matters.

Staff have received the invitation.

The registration details are in the email.

Why the Lab exists

For justice in the age of artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence is changing how law comes about, how it is applied, and how it is experienced. A lawyer who does not understand the technology uses the technology badly. A lawyer who understands only the technology uses the law badly. The Lab joins the two together.

Our position helps. The Nordic legal tradition takes access to justice seriously. The European Union produced the first comprehensive package of AI regulation in the world. The Lab brings sisu.

  • Human-centred teaching, by principle and by design
  • Open to every student, scholar, and discipline
  • Collaboration across law, technology, and society

What we do

The Lab’s four directions

Teaching

We teach law students how artificial intelligence changes legal work and how to use it responsibly.

AI in Legal Practice is running in Period II. All courses above.

Continuing education

We help lawyers build AI skills across the profession.

In design. Ideas? Get in touch.

Events and community

We run hackathons, clinics, and workshops where students, developers, and lawyers solve practical problems together.

Next one 2 November

People and projects

We bring together people who already teach AI law or use AI in their work, so that nobody has to reinvent the wheel.

Open now

Past events · 23 September 2026

An application in five hours

At the launch-day hackathon, students got to try out how AI applications are built. Antti brought four developers along, and with them the students got to see what today’s tools can do.

In five hours, one team built the skeleton of a working application. With it, you could listen to a simulated customer service call, analyse it legally in real time and gather the results into a dashboard. The dashboard showed how well the customer service team stayed within consumer protection law.

The teams did not solve everything.

A company that wants to monitor how its customer service is doing has to take many data protection and workplace privacy questions into account. The EU AI Act also classifies some workplace AI applications as high-risk. The rest of the AI Law Lab’s teaching prepares students to answer them.

Who we are

The Lab’s people

Antti Innanen

Founder and director · Professor of Practice

A lawyer working at the intersection of law and technology. He founded the Lab to bring his AI expertise into legal education and to gather the people already working on the subject.

antti.innanen@utu.fi

The roster is short on purpose.Teaching something AI-related at the faculty, or running a project the Lab should know about? Get in touch →

Bring your problem to the Lab.

If you teach at the faculty and want to use artificial intelligence on your course, we will help you design it. If your organisation wants to work out what the AI Act means for it, we can help. If you study in Turku, come and take part.

AI Law Lab