Minna Gräns

Professor in Jurisprudence, Faculty of Law

b. 1963

LL.B. (University of Turku, Finland, 1990)

Legum Magister (LL.M., Tübingen, Germany, 1991)

LL.Lic. (University of Helsinki, Finland, 1991)

LL.D. (Universty of Uppsala, Sweden, 1995)

Professor in Jurisprudence (University of Uppsala, Sweden, 2014)

Internal Appointments

Director of Research and Research Studies (2000 - 2006)

Deputy Head of the Law Department (2001-2006)

External and International Assignments

Lecturer in jurisprudence and comparative law at the University of Helsinki, Finland, 1990 and 1995-96

Docent of jurisprudence, University of Helsinki, Finland, 1996

Visiting scholar at Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, USA, Spring 2015

Member of Swedish Ethical Review Authority, Uppsala region, 2019-

Scientific Secretary at Swedish Ethical Review Authority, Uppsala Region, 2024-

Visiting lecturer at University of Eastern Finland, 2020-

President of the Foundation Rättsstatens Vänner, with the aim to enhance societal knowledge of and discourse about the Rule of Law, 2016-

Founding member of European Innocence Network

Research and Teaching Interests

philosophy of law, legal methodology in theory and practice, evaluation of evidence and rules of burden of proof, cognitive psychological theories of decision making and reasoning in legal contexts, psychology and law, bounded rationality and various forms of bias in legal reasoning and decision making, ethics of scientific research, misscarriages of justice