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Markku Suksi
Professor, Åbo Akademi University
Markku Suksi is Professor of Public Law at the Department of Law, Åbo Akademi University, in Finland (msuksi [at] abo.fi). He teaches within the areas of constitutional law, administrative law and comparative law. He has published, inter alia, the following books and edited volumes: Bringing in the People – A Comparison of Constitutional Forms and Practices of the Referendum (Martinus Nijhoff, 1993), Sub-State Governance through Territorial Autonomy (Springer, 2011), First Fundamental Rights Documents in Europe (co-ed.; Intersentia, 2015), Access to Information and Documents as a Human Right (together with Mariya Riekkinen; Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University, 2015) and Double Enumeration of Legislative Powers in a Sub-state Context - A Comparison between Canada, Denmark and Finland (Springer, 2018). He has authored a number of articles in the area of linguistic rights and minority rights and two articles relevant within the area of artificial intelligence, namely 'On the Openness of the Digital Society: from Religion via Language to Algorithm as the Basis for the Exercise of Public Powers' (pp. 285-317 in Anna Sara Lind - Jane Reichel - Inger Österdahl (eds), Transparency in the future - Swedish openness 250 years. Tallinn: Ragulka Press, 2017) and ‘Förvaltningsbeslut genom automatiserat beslutsfattande – statsförfattnings- och förvaltningsrättsliga frågor i en digitaliserad myndighetsmiljö’ (JFT 5/2018 s. 329–371).