Prof. Harri Kalimo

Prof. Dr. Harri Kalimo is a Senior Research Fellow at the IES. He is the director of the post-graduate LL.M. Programme on EU and International law, and holds professorships at the faculty of law and criminology and in the faculty of economic, political and social sciences. He is also a Visiting Fellow at Yale University, an Associate Professor at the Turku School of Economics (Finland), and a visiting lecturer in Monash University Law School (Melbourne, Australia), Tampere University (Finland) and Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).

He currently lectures on EU environmental law and policy, EU and U.S. internal market law, and interest representation. In terms of research, he is in charge of the IES part of the FP7 Project CORPUS on sustainable consumption. In Yale, and as part of the INSEAD Group on IPR, his research focuses on extended producer responsibility and its role in different models of federalism. His writing has dealt with environmental, constitutional and trade law, as well as competition law and legal theory. His major work is “E-CYCLING—Linking trade and environmental law in the EC and the U.S.”.

He has academic and non-academic working experience from multiple disciplines, fields of work and geographic locations. A lawyer and an economist by training, he holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from Turku (Finland) School of Economics (1989-1994) and a Master’s Degree in Law from Turku University Faculty of Law (1992-1998). He obtained his doctoral degree in law from the same faculty in 2004. His academic experience is from visiting positions in the Harvard Law School, Institut d’Études Européennes (Université Libre de Bruxelles), New York University School of Law, and Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Prior to turning full time to academic life in 2006, he has held non-academic posts in the Nokia Corporation, varying from managerial duties in global product marketing projects (1994-1995) to that of a Legal Counsel (2001-2003), responsible for supporting the Mobile Music and Mobile Enhancements business units of Nokia. In the latter position, his focus areas included IT law, contract law, intellectual property rights, product liability and competition law. Between these two positions (1998-2000) he also served as the Legal Counsel in Nokia Corporation’s office of European Union governmental affairs. He was also the Legal Counsel horizontally responsible for environmental matters.

Harri’s hobbies include various kinds of sports, and he is a trainer in the Finnish children’s sports group “The Flying Finns” and the under 12 year olds’ team in the ice hockey club “Leuven Chiefs”.

Most relevant publications:

  • Books
    • Pauwels, Caroline & Kalimo, Harri & Donders, Karen & van Rompuy, Ben (eds.) (2009) Rethinking European Media and Communications Policy. VUB Press: Brussels, pp. 370. ISBN: 978 90 5487 603 8.
    • Rubik, Frieder & Scholl, Gerd & Biedenkopf, Katja, & Kalimo, Harri & Mohaupt, Franziska & Söebech, Ólöf & Stø, Eivind & Strandbakken, Pål & Turnheim, Bruno (2009) Innovative Approaches in European Sustainable Consumption Policies. IÖW Series 192/09: Berlin/Heidelberg, pp. 180. ISBN: 978-3-932092-95-4.
    • Kalimo, Harri (2006) E-CYCLING—Linking Trade and Environmental Law in the EC and the U.S. Transnational Publishers: Ardsley, New York, pp. 757. ISBN: 1-57105-356-5.
  • Articles and book chapters
    • Scholl, Gerd & Rubik, Frieder & Kalimo, Harri & Biedenkopf, Katja & Söebech, Ólöf (2010) Policies to Promote Sustainable Consumption -- Innovative Approaches in Europe. Natural Resources Forum 34(1): 39-50. ISSN: 0165-0203.
    • Kalimo, Harri & Pauwels, Caroline (2009) The Converging Media and Communications Environment, (pp. 11-40) in C.Pauwels & H. Kalimo & K. Donders & B. van Rompuy. Rethinking European Media and Communications Policy. VUB Press: Brussels. ISBN: 978 90 5487 603 8.
    • Kalimo, Harri & Pauwels, Caroline (2009) Policy Approaches in the Converging Media and Communications Sector, (pp. 353-366) in C. Pauwels & H. Kalimo & K. Donders & B. van Rompuy. Rethinking European Media and Communications Policy. VUB Press: Brussels. ISBN: 978 90 5487 603 8.