Daria Kozlowska Rautiainen

About me

Position

Senior Lecturer in International Procedural Law with specialization in Commercial Arbitration Law

Director of the ICAL LL.M. Programme

Teaching

I teach international commercial arbitration both within the International Commercial Arbitration Law LL.M. Programme and the Swedish law programme. Beside international commercial arbitration, I teach also academic writing, international contracting and dispute resolution in general. The teaching takes form of lectures, seminars, workshops as well as mock proceedings.

Additionally, I supervise and examine master’s theses and serve as a supervisor of doctoral research in dispute resolution.

I am a visiting lecturer at other universities. Recently I held lectures and seminars at the University of Uppsala, Umeå and Helsinki.

Research

My research activity is focused on international commercial arbitration. Academic study in the ever changing field of international commercial arbitration is both challenging and rewarding. It teaches the ability to maneuver between various legal systems and cultures, analyze issues in a transnational perspective and understand the practical side of arbitration.

Currently I am part of two research projects. One regarding employment arbitration, where I focus on the protections of the weaker party in international commercial arbitration. This topic is connected to such issues as human rights, transparency, equal treatment of the parties, due process to name a few. The other project is of methodological character and aims at aiding students in researching and writing academically in the field of international arbitration.

My doctoral dissertation titled “Obtaining documents from the opponent in international commercial arbitration” analyzes one of the most contentious issues in international commercial arbitration – the scope and procedure of document production.

Although research in international arbitration requires employment of comparative method, my research does not stop there, but goes beyond the typical common law- civil law divide approach and focuses on the question of document production in an international perspective. One of the most important conclusions of my research has been that the practice and culture of international arbitration has developed well enough to supply answers on the basis of balancing the principles of arbitral procedure.

Besides addressing such topical issues as the narrowness of a document request, relevance of the requested documents, scope of privilege protection or the consequences of party’s non-compliance with tribunal’s orders, the dissertation fills-in the gaps in the commentary on the topic by answering to the following questions: what is the basis of a party’s right to obtain documents in international arbitration, can a party request for documents it does not have the burden of proving, when are the documents considered as being in a party’s control, can GDPR be the basis for an objection to a document request and what is the scope and procedure of national court’s assistance in obtaining documents from the opponent.

During my doctoral studies I have had the great honor of being part of one of the case management teams at the Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris, where apart from gaining practical experience, I have been gathering unique, otherwise inaccessible, sources for my research.

Additionally, I have also written an article on the comparative aspects of interpretation of contracts and the effects of the entire agreement clauses on the interpretation of contract.

Education

University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law: Doctoral studies

Arbitration Institute of the Finland Chamber of Commerce: Finnish Arbitratrion Academy

University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law: LL.M. Diploma Programme in Contract and Commercial Law

University of Gdansk, Faculty of Law: Master of Laws

University of Salzburg, Faculty of Law: Socrates/Erasmus Programme

Assignments

Juridiska fakultetens utbildningsutskott since 2022 (ordinary member since 2024)

Member of the SCCL Research Panel for arbitration and other forms of dispute resolution 

Editor of the peer-review Finnish Business Law Journal “Liikejuridiikka” since 2017

Board of the Young Arbitration Club Finland 2017

Grants

Stockholm University, Law Department movable grant (2019), Finnish Culture Fund 2017, Makarna Granfelts stipendiefond 2017, Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation 2016, University of Helsinki Research Grant 2016, Aili and Brynolf Honkasalo Fund 2015

Languages

English, Swedish, Finnish and Polish