Kaarlo Heikki TUORI

Studies

• Candidate of Law 1970
• Licentiate of Law 1973
• Doctor of Law 1983 at Helsinki University

Carreer

• Asso­ciate professor of Financial Law at Helsinki University 1984-1986, research professor at the Academy of Finland 1986-1992, professor of Administrative Law at Helsinki University 1992-2003, professor of Jurisprudence at Helsinki University 2003-2015. Director of the Centre of Excellence Foundations of European Law and Polity 2008-2013; Academy Professor 2010-2015.
   
• Expert at the Constitutional Law Committee of the Parliament; member of several governmental committees for drafting constitutional amendments and reforms, including the committee which drafted the new constitution of 2000; extraordinary member of Supreme Administrative Court 1995. 
   
• Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence 1995-1996, Fernand Braudel Fellow 2009 and 2012.
   
• Executive Committee of the International Association of Legal and Social Philosophy 1995-2003.
   
• Honorary President of the Venice Commission (European Commission for Democracy through Law) ; Member of the Commission 1998-2022; four terms as Vice-President.
   
• Honorary Degrees at Lund University 2001, Copenhagen University 2006 and Turku University 2009.

Selected publications

• Critical Legal Positivism (Ashgate 2002)
• The Many Constitutions of Europe (ed. with Suvi Sankari, Ashgate 2010)
• Ratio and Voluntas (Ashgate 2011)
• Eurozone Crisis: A Constitutional Analysis (with Klaus Tuori, CUP 2014)
• Transnational Law (ed. with Miguel Maduro and Suvi Sankari); CUP 2014)
• European Constitutionalism (CUP 2015)
• Properties of law (CUP 2021)