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1 Nordic Law There is no such thing as Nordic law, but you may talk of a Nordic legal mind. The Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden (including the autonomous regions of Greenland, and the Faroe and Åland islands) all have their own law and their own legal institutions. However, to speak of Nordic law may be useful as we need a concept that covers those peculiarities and similarities which, with certain reservations, can be considered as such characteristic and common features in dealing with the legal systems of these countries, which constitute the Nordic legal mind. 8 See further Bärlund J and Moegelvang-Hansen P in this book. 9 See further Lund-Andersen I and Kronborg A in this book. 10 Lidbom C (1973), Modéer KÅ (1978). 11 Se further Bärlund J and Moegelvang-Hansen P in this book.; On differences in regulation of registred partnership see further Lund-Andersen I and Kronborg A in this book. 47 Pihlajamäki H (2004), Björne L (2007). 48 Influences in legal thinking were closely connected to Finnish philosophy of the 1960s and 1970s (e.g. G.H. von Wright and Jaakko Hintikka), which was strongly influenced by Anglo-American analytical philosophy. 49 The most important changes in Finnish society can be dated to as late as the 1970s. Since then it has become possible to speak of a welfare (social) state. The decade was characterised by various democratization and modernisation procedures: for instance, reforms to the school system, university education, and part of the court system. Approximation of legal science to other social sciences was required in terms of legal education at universities. Moreover, trends in legal research changed, visible e.g. in dissertations and other academic works pointing out the "social dimension" of law.

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