Juhana Salojärvi, LL.D., is a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Helsinki. His main field is the history of legal scholarship. Recently his research has also involved the legal history of steamships and the historiography of human rights.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. The origins of rights discourse.- 3. The postwar transformation, 1945–1965.- 4. The rise of human rights discourse in Finnish legal scholarship, 1965–1980.- 5. The establishment of rights discourse in Finnish legal scholarship: From the stalemate of the 1980s to the reform of constitutional rights in 1995.- 6. Rights Talk Explosion.- 7. Epilogue: The history of rights discourse and the twenty-first century rights talk.

Juhana Salojärvi, LL.D., is a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Helsinki. His main field is the history of legal scholarship. Recently his research has also involved the legal history of steamships and the historiography of human rights.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. The origins of rights discourse.- 3. The postwar transformation, 1945–1965.- 4. The rise of human rights discourse in Finnish legal scholarship, 1965–1980.- 5. The establishment of rights discourse in Finnish legal scholarship: From the stalemate of the 1980s to the reform of constitutional rights in 1995.- 6. Rights Talk Explosion.- 7. Epilogue: The history of rights discourse and the twenty-first century rights talk.

Juhana Salojärvi, LL.D., is a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Helsinki. His main field is the history of legal scholarship. Recently his research has also involved the legal history of steamships and the historiography of human rights.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. The origins of rights discourse.- 3. The postwar transformation, 1945–1965.- 4. The rise of human rights discourse in Finnish legal scholarship, 1965–1980.- 5. The establishment of rights discourse in Finnish legal scholarship: From the stalemate of the 1980s to the reform of constitutional rights in 1995.- 6. Rights Talk Explosion.- 7. Epilogue: The history of rights discourse and the twenty-first century rights talk.