Description of research and teaching

Sade Mäntylä (M.Soc.Sc., LL.M, B.A) works as a doctoral researcher in international and sustainability law at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights at the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki. Mäntylä is interested in globally significant issues such as the contradictions and intersections between international economic law, human rights, justice, and peace.

In her doctoral dissertation under the REBOUND project, Mäntylä examines the relationships between law, business and human rights, sustainability and socio-economic and cultural justice in the green transition. Her main focus is the collective rights of Arctic Indigenous Saami peoples in the ongoing transition and transformations in northern Finland.

Education information

B. Soc. Sci, M.Soc.Sci (World Politics), University of Helsinki, June 2021

LL.B, LL.M, University of Helsinki, December 2024

B.A (French), University of Helsinki, June 2025

Research interests

International law, Political economy, Sustainability, the Arctic, Indigenous peoples, Human rights, Corporate responsibility, Legal design