Kaarlo Tuori Explained

Kaarlo Heikki Tuori (born 9 April 1948) is a Finnish legal scholar.

He was born in Helsinki. After taking his doctorate in jurisprudence in 1983, he eventually became professor of jurisprudence at the University of Helsinki. His main works are Oikeuden rationalisuus (1988), Oikeus, valta ja demokratia (1990) and Critical Legal Positivism (2002, originally Kriittinen oikeuspositivismi, 2000).^[1] He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.^[2]

Notable works

In English:

• Critical Legal Positivism (2002)
• Ratio and Voluntas: The Tension between Law and Reason in Law (2011)
• Tuori, Kaarlo; Tuori, Klaus: The Eurozone Crisis: A Constitutional Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. .
• European Constitutionalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. .
• Properties of Law: Modern Law and After. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. .

Notes and References

1. Encyclopedia: Tuori, Kaarlo. Uppslagsverket Finland. sv. 30 December 2021.
2. Web site: Utenlandske medlemmer. Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. no. 31 December 2021.