Premiere of the Stig Strömholm Prize for Research in the Humanities, Law and Social Sciences

Ukri Soirila

Ukri Soirila

The Board of the Faculty of Law has decided that the Stig Strömholm Prize for Humanities-oriented Research in Law and Social Sciences will be awarded in 2023 to Jur.dr Ukri Soirila of the University of Helsinki for his thesis "The Law of Humanity Project: An Immanent Critique".


The motivation reads:

"Ukri Soirila demonstrates how the widespread use of 'humanity' in language and concepts - especially after the fall of the Iron Curtain - has led to a focus on the individual at the expense of state sovereignty in international law. Soirila's penetrating analysis of the development of political and international law theories reveals the weakening of nation states and the emergence of an international legal order. The thesis provides an impressive overview and mapping of 'The Law of Humanity Project', including the risks of this endeavour. Soirila presents a number of thought-provoking and important questions for further research, e.g. from the discussion on the concept of dignity. Through this work, Soirila has promoted law as a cultural expression in the best spirit."

Lasse Blom

About the prize


The Vice-Chancellor decided on 23 August 2022, on the occasion of Stig Strömholm's 90th birthday on 16 September 2021, to establish the "Stig Strömholm Prize for Research in the Humanities, Law and Social Sciences". Professor Stig Strömholm was President of Uppsala University from 1989 to 1997.

The prize will be awarded to a younger academic active in the Nordic countries as a reward for promoting law as a cultural expression in the spirit of Professor Stig Strömholm. A young scholar is defined as someone who obtained a doctoral degree or equivalent in law or another relevant subject no more than five years ago.

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