Curriculum vitae

Päivi Leino-Sandberg is Professor of Transnational European Law, University of Helsinki, and Deputy Director of the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights where she has led various international research projects relating to EU decision making and governance. She engages in multidisciplinary work, uses empirical methods, and believes the EU should live up to its democratic and transparency commitments. She has won cases on access to documents in EU Courts. Before returning full time to the academia in 2015, she worked for over 10 years as a legal adviser for the Finnish government participating in numerous EU and international negotiations and Court cases, and continues to advise in particular the Parliament of Finland and various other institutions. Her writings have appeared in lead journals in the field and been quoted by the EU Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court. She has previously worked as Academy of Finland Research Fellow and Professor of International and European Law at UEF Law School. In addition, she has held various visiting positions including at the European University Institute, NYU Law School, Humboldt University Berlin and the iCourts Centre of Excellence at the University of Copenhagen. Her recent books include a monograph entitled The Politics of Legal Expertise in EU Policymaking (CUP 2021), and three co-edited collections of essays Law, Legal Expertise and EU Policymaking (CUP 2022), (In)visible European Government. Critical Approaches to Transparency as an Ideal and a Practice (Routledge 2023) and Dynamics of Powers in the European Union (Hart Publishing 2024). Her new monograph (co-authored with Peter Lindseth) European Integration in the Constitutional Borderlands. The NextGeneration EU Model and the Struggle for Europe's Future is in press, forthcoming with Oxford University Press (2026)