Steering Group members
- Professor, dean Anne Kumpula / Chair, University of Turku
- Professor Markku Suksi / Chair, Åbo Akademi University
- Professor Marko Joas, Åbo Akademi University
- Assistant Professor Mika Viljanen, University of Turku
- Doctoral Candidate Felix Collin, University of Turku
Advisory Board members
- Professor and former Judge at the European Court of Justice Allan Rosas / Chair of Advisory Board
- Region Mayor Kari Häkämies, Regional Council of Southwest Finland
- Principal Legal Adviser on International Law Marie Jacobsson, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
- Chief Adviser Anita Mäkinen, Finnish Transport Safety Agency
- President Jussi Mälkiä, Meriaura Group
- Ambassador for Baltic Sea Issues Helena Tuuri, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
- Professor Adam Wisniewski, University of Gdansk
BALEX Advisory Board Memo 2015-2-19
BALEX Advisory Board Memo 2015-10-23
BALEX Advisory Board Memo 2016-8-23
BALEX Advisory Board Memo 2016-12-5
BALEX Advisory Board Memo 2017-5-9
BALEX Fellows
BALEX Fellows consists of a group of prominent persons from different backgrounds with whom BALEX is closely associated.- Professor Ellen Eftestøl-Wilhelmsson, Helsinki University
- Ministerial Counsellor Lolan Eriksson, Ministry of Transport and Communications of Finland
- Professor Emeritus Hannu Honka, Åbo Akademi University
- Research Professor Timo Koivurova, director of Arctic Centre, University of Lapland
- Doctor Marja Lehto, International Law Commission member
- Professor Emeritus Ari Saarnilehto, University of Turku
- Professor Björn Sandvik, Åbo Akademi University
- Professor Alexander Skaridov, Admiral Makarov State Maritime University
- Minister Christoffer Taxell
- Professor Emeritus Peter Wetterstein, Åbo Akademi University
Key academic partners
The scientific partners of individual research projects will vary depending on the topic, but some key academic partners who have participated in and supported the initiative since the early setting-up phase include the legal research environments at:
- Walther Schücking Institute for International Law, Kiel University (Germany)
- K.G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea, University of Tromsø (Norway)
- Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, University of Oslo (Norway)
- Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping (Russia)
- Free University of Brussels (Belgium)
- CEVIA – Centre for Enterprise Liability, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
- The Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, University of Lapland (Finland)
- Axel Ax:son Johnson Institute of Maritime and Transport Law, Stockholm University (Sweden)
- University of Tallinn (Estonia)
- Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University in Kaliningrad (Russia)
- Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania)
- Department of Law, School of Business, Economics and Law, Gothenburg University (Sweden)