Lars Erik Taxell

Lars Erik Taxell (6 April 1913 – 7 October 2013), was a Finnish legal scholar and politician.

He was also the Rector of the Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland, in the 1950s and its chancellor in the 1980s.

Taxell was the first Finnish person to be awarded the Nordic Lawyer Prize in 1984.

In 1975 Taxell became an honorary doctor at the Faculty of law at Stockholm University.

[5] He had a central role in the agreement whereby the Finnish government in 1981 took over the financial responsibility for the private university Åbo Akademi, while the Åbo Akademi Foundation maintained its independent status.