Research interests

Dr. Heli Korkka-Knuts works as a University Lecturer in Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki. She has been appointed Associate Professor of Criminal Law (tenure track) at Åbo Akademi University as of August 1, 2025. She is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science for the Winter and Spring term of 2025.

Her research focuses on criminal law, criminal policy, and regulatory sanctions, particularly in corporate environments. The leading theme in her recent research has been to combine behavioral empirical data accumulated in various disciplines, regulatory theory, and doctrinal research into a novel behavioral approach to corporate sanctioning.

Dr. Korkka-Knuts currently works as a workpackage PI in the project "Towards a fairer and more coherent system of administrative sanctions" (SYSADMIN) funded by the Academy of Finland. 

Dr. Korkka-Knuts is the co-author of Yleinen rikosoikeus (2020 Edita Publishing), which is one of the most established handbooks covering criminal liability doctrine in Finland. 

She has extensive previous private sector experience working as an attorney-at-law in corporate law firms.