Kaarlo Tuori

Sosiaaliturvaa koskeva lainsäädäntö käsittää niin vanhuuden, sairauden ja työttömyyden aikaisen toimeentuloturvan kuin sosiaali- ja terveydenhuollonkin säädökset. Teos on kattava ja systemaattinen esitys sosiaalioikeuden yksittäisistä säädöksistä ja säännöksistä sekä niiden taustalla vaikuttavista oikeudenalan yleisistä opeista. Tarkastelun keskiössä ovat sosiaaliturvajärjestelmän asiakkaan oikeusasema ja oikeussuoja. Teos kertoo, kuinka sosiaalioikeuden säännöksiä olisi tulkittava käytännön soveltamistilanteissa, ja siinä myös esitellään runsaasti sosiaalioikeutta koskevaa oikeuskäytäntöä. Uudistetussa 6. painoksessa on otettu huomioon mm. 1.1.2023 voimaan tulleen sote-uudistuksen aiheuttamat muutokset sosiaali- ja terveydenhuollon järjestämisvastuuta, rahoitusta, ohjausta ja valvontaa koskevaan sääntelyyn; vammaispalvelulainsäädännön uudistaminen; perustoimeentulotuen siirtäminen Kelalle; sekä sosiaali- ja terveydenhuollon asiakastietojen sähköistä käsittelyä koskevaan sääntelyyn EU:n tietosuoja-asetuksen johdosta tehdyt muutokset.

Perustuslaki vahvistaa Suomen valtiosäännön, eli valtion rakenteen ja toiminnan sekä yksilöiden oikeusaseman perusteet. Siinä on säädetty muun muassa perusoikeuksista eli yksilöiden nauttimasta suojasta, joka estää julkisen vallan liiallisen tai mielivaltaisen puuttumisen heidän elämäänsä. Perustuslain toteutumista on oikeusvaltiossa valvottava. Suomessa tuota valvontatehtävää toteuttaa muihin länsimaisiin demokratioihin verrattuna omaleimainen järjestelmä: kansanedustajista koostuva eduskunnan perustuslakivaliokunta puuttuu ongelmallisiin lakihankkeisiin ennakolta. Turvaako tämä perustuslain toteutumisen? Kaarlo Tuorin mukaan viimeaikainen kehitys on paljastanut järjestelmän haavoittuvuuden. Uudessa kirjassaan hän esittää yleistajuisesti historiallista taustaa vasten, miksi se on hänen mielestään tullut tiensä päähän. Kirja on välttämätöntä luettavaa kaikille kansalaisyhteiskunnan puolustajille ja poliittisille toimijoille.

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. The Advanced Introduction to Legal Positivism provides an accessible overview of legal positivism, structured in accordance with the main theses of theoretical and methodological positivism: the normativity, the social, the separation and the descriptive thesis. Kaarlo Tuori compares the two main variants of 20th century positivism presented by Hans Kelsen and H. L. A. Hart, delineating these from philosophical and sociological positivism. Tuori examines the criticism of natural law and legal realism by both Kelsen and Hart, offering new insights into the connections between law and morals and into law’s social dimension. He outlines problematic reductions caused by legal positivism, including the neglect of social and legal-cultural dimensions, as well as the interlegality of contemporary law. Key Features:Explores the social dimension of lawExamines legal principles and validityCritically analyses Kelsen’s basic norm and Hart’s rule of recognitionDiscusses conceptual analysis and the accompanying reliance on a standard case in legal positivismThis informative Advanced Introduction is an essential guide for students and academics in law and philosophy. Its critical and methodological insights are also beneficial for legal theorists and philosophers of law.

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. The Advanced Introduction to Legal Positivism provides an accessible overview of legal positivism, structured in accordance with the main theses of theoretical and methodological positivism: the normativity, the social, the separation and the descriptive thesis. Kaarlo Tuori compares the two main variants of 20th century positivism presented by Hans Kelsen and H. L. A. Hart, delineating these from philosophical and sociological positivism. Tuori examines the criticism of natural law and legal realism by both Kelsen and Hart, offering new insights into the connections between law and morals and into law’s social dimension. He outlines problematic reductions caused by legal positivism, including the neglect of social and legal-cultural dimensions, as well as the interlegality of contemporary law. Key Features:Explores the social dimension of lawExamines legal principles and validityCritically analyses Kelsen’s basic norm and Hart’s rule of recognitionDiscusses conceptual analysis and the accompanying reliance on a standard case in legal positivismThis informative Advanced Introduction is an essential guide for students and academics in law and philosophy. Its critical and methodological insights are also beneficial for legal theorists and philosophers of law.

Matti Wuori oli 1900-luvun lopun merkittävin suomalainen ihmisoikeus- ja ympäristökysymyksiin keskittynyt asianajaja. Päätyönsä ohella hän toimi muun muassa kansainvälisen Greenpeacen puheenjohtajana ja sitoutumattomana europarlamentaarikkona vihreiden ryhmässä. Asianajajana hän päätyi lukuisia kertoja julkisuuteen tapauksissa, joissa oli yleensä kyse nimenomaan perus- ja ihmisoikeuksista. Wuoren pitkäaikainen ystävä Kaarlo Tuori on kirjoittanut Wuoren ajamista jutuista kirjan, jossa hän taustoittaa ja erittelee suurellekin yleisölle tuttuja oikeustapauksia, esimerkiksi Sikamessiasta, saahimielenosoituksia, Mikkelin pamausta ja Kessiä. Kirjan punaisena lankana kulkee yhteiskuntamme muutos 1960-luvulta uuden vuosituhannen alkuun. Erityisesti se selvittää kansalaisvapauksien ja ihmisoikeuksien murtautumista oikeuskulttuuriimme ja niiden yhteentörmäystä perinnäisen yhtenäiskulttuurin kanssa. Keskeisiä teemoja ovat myös ympäristöarvojen nousu, kansalaistottelemattomuus ja julkisuus. Kirjassa on myös Wuorta esittelevä elämäkerrallinen osio. Yleistajuinen kirja tempaa mukaansa muutkin maamme lähihistoriasta kiinnostuneet kuin oikeustieteilijät ja asianajajat.

Properties of Law is a legal-theoretical analysis about modern state law; about sociality, normativity and plurality as its properties, and what will come after modern state law. The main objective of this study is to offer a legal theoretical recapitulation of modern state law that avoids the fallacies of Legal Positivism. This calls for a relationist approach where law's sociality is related to normativity, and normativity to sociality. Avoiding Legal Positivism's fallacies also includes refraining from extrapolating from modern state law to law in general; replacing Legal Positivism's conceptual universalism with sensitivity to the varieties of law, and acknowledging that law existed before modern state law, that it will exist after modern state law, and that other law exists alongside modern state law. The book concludes with a discussion of the impact of digitalization on law.

Kaarlo Tuoris text presenterar rätten med hjälp av två dimensioner: som rättsordning och som särskilda rättsliga praktiker i form av lagstiftande verksamhet, rättskipning och rättsvetenskaplig forskning. Boken innehåller även en genomgång av rättens tre skikt: ytnivån, rättskulturen och djupstrukturen. Kaarlo Tuori är professor emeritus i allmän rättslära vid Helsingfors universitet. Bokserien Juridikens grunder är avsedd för alla som är intresserade av juridik och juridiska frågor.

Properties of Law is a legal-theoretical analysis about modern state law; about sociality, normativity and plurality as its properties, and what will come after modern state law. The main objective of this study is to offer a legal theoretical recapitulation of modern state law that avoids the fallacies of Legal Positivism. This calls for a relationist approach where law's sociality is related to normativity, and normativity to sociality. Avoiding Legal Positivism's fallacies also includes refraining from extrapolating from modern state law to law in general; replacing Legal Positivism's conceptual universalism with sensitivity to the varieties of law, and acknowledging that law existed before modern state law, that it will exist after modern state law, and that other law exists alongside modern state law. The book concludes with a discussion of the impact of digitalization on law.

European Constitutionalism redraws the perimeters in the debate on the nature of the European constitution. Offering a fresh approach to both doctrinal and theoretical issues, this book discusses general characteristics of the European constitution under the headings of relationality, perspectivism and discursiveness, and contains forays to sectoral constitutionalization in the micro- and macroeconomic, social and security dimensions. European constitutionalism must be examined in its interaction with Member State constitutionalism, which plays an essential role in channelling democratic legitimacy to the EU. Written by a leading expert in the field, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars alike.

From the ancient beginnings of Western legal tradition, law has been conceived as traversed by a fundamental tension between power (will) and reason. This volume examines the tension between these two poles, 'ratio and voluntas' in modern law. Part I focuses on three instructive phases in the history of the law's ratio. Part II examines the way legal scholarship, especially doctrinal research (legal dogmatics), can and should contribute to the law's coherence. Part III explores the role of constitutional law in managing the tension between law's voluntas and ratio. The final chapter discusses the implications the growth of transnational law may have on the relationship between ratio and voluntas. The study builds on the views of the distinctive features of the ideal-typical mature modern legal system as presented in the author's previous work, Critical Legal Positivism (Ashgate 2002).

This profound and scholarly treatise develops a critical version of legal positivism as the basis for modern legal scholarship. Departing from the formalism of Hart and Kelsen and blending the European tradition of Weber, Habermas and Foucault with the Anglo-American contributions of Dworkin and MacCormick, Tuori presents the normative and practical faces of law as a multilayered phenomenon within which there is an important role for critical legal dogmatics in furthering law's self-understanding and coherence. Its themes also resonate with importance for the development of the European legal system.

European Constitutionalism redraws the perimeters in the debate on the nature of the European constitution. Offering a fresh approach to both doctrinal and theoretical issues, this book discusses general characteristics of the European constitution under the headings of relationality, perspectivism and discursiveness, and contains forays to sectoral constitutionalization in the micro- and macroeconomic, social and security dimensions. European constitutionalism must be examined in its interaction with Member State constitutionalism, which plays an essential role in channelling democratic legitimacy to the EU. Written by a leading expert in the field, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars alike.

Topical and timely, this book offers an economically informed constitutional analysis on European responses to the crisis. It discusses the longer-term proposals on the table including rescue measures and stability mechanisms, as well as the tightening of European economic governance. The authors see the European constitution as a multidimensional and multi-temporal process of constitutionalisation. They examine how the crisis has catapulted the economic constitution back to the 'pacemaker' position from where it determines developments in the political and social dimensions. However, now the key role is not played by the constitution of 'microeconomics', focusing on free movement and competition law, but the constitution of 'macroeconomics', introduced in Maastricht.

Topical and timely, this book offers an economically informed constitutional analysis on European responses to the crisis. It discusses the longer-term proposals on the table including rescue measures and stability mechanisms, as well as the tightening of European economic governance. The authors see the European constitution as a multidimensional and multi-temporal process of constitutionalisation. They examine how the crisis has catapulted the economic constitution back to the 'pacemaker' position from where it determines developments in the political and social dimensions. However, now the key role is not played by the constitution of 'microeconomics', focusing on free movement and competition law, but the constitution of 'macroeconomics', introduced in Maastricht.

From the ancient beginnings of Western legal tradition, law has been conceived as traversed by a fundamental tension between power (will) and reason. This volume examines the tension between these two poles, 'ratio and voluntas' in modern law. Part I focuses on three instructive phases in the history of the law's ratio. Part II examines the way legal scholarship, especially doctrinal research (legal dogmatics), can and should contribute to the law's coherence. Part III explores the role of constitutional law in managing the tension between law's voluntas and ratio. The final chapter discusses the implications the growth of transnational law may have on the relationship between ratio and voluntas. The study builds on the views of the distinctive features of the ideal-typical mature modern legal system as presented in the author's previous work, Critical Legal Positivism (Ashgate 2002).

This profound and scholarly treatise develops a critical version of legal positivism as the basis for modern legal scholarship. Departing from the formalism of Hart and Kelsen and blending the European tradition of Weber, Habermas and Foucault with the Anglo-American contributions of Dworkin and MacCormick, Tuori presents the normative and practical faces of law as a multilayered phenomenon within which there is an important role for critical legal dogmatics in furthering law's self-understanding and coherence. Its themes also resonate with importance for the development of the European legal system.