Books by Kaarlo Tuori

From the ancient beginnings of Western legal tradition, law has been conceived as traversed by a fundamental tension between power (will) and reason. This title examines the tension between these two poles, 'ratio and voluntas' in modern law.

This treatise develops a critical version of legal positivism as the basis for modern legal scholarship. The author develops an alternative to traditional legal positivism, giving an account of how modern positive law can solve the problem of its limits and criteria of legitimacy.