District Judge, District Court of Ostrobothnia, Finland
List of Publications
Books
- Ville Kari, The Classical Doctrine of Civil War in International Law (322 + xvi pages, Cambridge University Press 2026)
- Ville Kari, A Digest of the Classical Doctrine of Civil War (Doctors’ Commons International, 2026, e-print, 44 pages)
- Ville Kari, On the classical doctrine of civil war in international law (LL.D. Thesis: University of Helsinki 2020, 507 pages)
Academic Articles and Chapters
- Ville Kari, ‘Finders, Keepers? Grotius and the acquisition of property from the global commons’, Grotiana (1/2026), 28 p.
- Ville Kari: ‘Natasha Wheatley, The Life and Death of States (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2023) [Book review], 37 European Journal of International Law 2026, 8 p.
- Ville Kari: ‘Anne Orford, International Law and the Politics of History (Cambridge University Press 2021) [Book review]’, 66 German Yearbook of International Law (2025), p. 456–8.
- Ville Kari, ‘Investment law and world heritage: The case of Le Morne’ 21 Nordic Journal of International Law 2024, pp. 370–390
- Ville Kari: ‘Ingo Venzke and Kevin Jon Heller (eds.), Contingency in International Law: On the Possibility of Different Legal Histories (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021) [Book review]’, 24(3) Journal of the History of International Law (2022), p. 453-458.
- Ville Kari, ‘Hugo Grotius and the classical law of civil war’ 41Grotiana 2020, pp. 412–427
- Martti Koskenniemi & Ville Kari, ‘Sovereign Equality’ in Jorge Viñuales (ed.), The UN Friendly Relations Declaration at 50: An Assessment of the Fundamental Principles of International Law (Cambridge University Press 2020)
- Ville Kari, ‘Etelämannersopimuksesta’ Oikeus 1/2020 [”On the Antarctic Treaty System”]
- Ville Kari: ‘Sotien kieltämisestä (ja hegemoniasta)’ Oikeus 1/2020 [Review article: Shapiro & Hathaway: The Internationalists]
- Ville Kari, ‘Freebooters and Free Traders: English Colonial Prize Jurisdiction in the West Indies 1655–1670’ 21 Journal of the History of International Law 2019, pp. 41–70.
- Ville Kari, ‘Ydinaseiden kieltosopimuksesta’ Oikeus 1/2018 [”On the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons”]
- Ville Kari, “A Less Elevated Cosmopolitanism: Victor Hugo, Francis Lieber, and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870” in Klabbers, J., Varaki, M. & Vasconcelos Vilaca, G. (eds.), Towards Responsible Global Governance (University of Helsinki 2018)
- Martti Koskenniemi & Ville Kari: “A More Elevated Patriotism: The Emergence of International and comparative law (Nineteenth Century)” in H Pihlajamäki, M Dubber & D Godfrey eds, The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History (Oxford University Press 2018)
- Ville Kari: ’Sielu ja uusi kone’ Oikeus 3/2018 [”The Soul and the New Machine”]
- Ville Kari: On the Foundation of the Helsinki Law Review. Helsinki Law Review 2/2017.
- Ville Kari: Philipp Dann: The Law of Development Cooperation. A Comparative Analysis of the World Bank, the EU and Germany [Book Review]. 13 International organizations law review (2016) 379–384.
- Ville Kari, ‘On the Constitutional Crisis of Nepal and the “Power to Remove Difficulties”’, 48 Verfassung und Recht in Übersee 2015, pp. 187–204.
Other Publications
- Ville Kari, “The Question of Palestine: Documents, texts, materials”, Doctors’ Commons International 2025 (www.doctorscommons.com)
- Final Report of the Forty-seventh Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (Antarctic Treaty Secretariat 2025)
- Final Report of the Forty-sixth Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (Antarctic Treaty Secretariat 2024)
- Final Report of the XLV Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (Antarctic Treaty Secretariat 2023)
- Ville Kari, ’Putinin sota ei kestä kansainvälisen oikeuden valoa’ Helsingin Sanomat, 9 March 2022
- Final Report of the XLIV Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (Antarctic Treaty Secretariat 2022)
- Ville Kari, “War in Ukraine: Documents, texts, materials”, Doctors’ Commons International 2022 (www.doctorscommons.com)
- Final Report of the XLII Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (Antarctic Treaty Secretariat 2019)
[contribution as a member of the rapporteur team] - Ville Kari & Martti Koskenniemi: International Law (several detailed scientific encyclopedia entries on questions of international law). Oikeustieteen termipankki. 2017.
- Ville Kari, ’Mistä Britannia oikein haluaa eroon?’ Helsingin Sanomat, 25 June 2016
- Ville Kari, ’Investointisuojan kanssa on oltava tarkkana’ Helsingin Sanomat, 14 March 2015
Academic Positions
2021 – 2026: Assistant professor (Permanent position), Tilburg University Law School, Department of Public Law and Governance.
2021 – Affiliated Fellow, Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights (University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law).
2025–2026: Senior visiting fellow, Sciences Po Law School, Paris.
2023–2026: Research project ‘A legal history of the global commons’. Principal researcher. (250 000 €.)
2021 – IREDIES, Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Visiting researcher
2014 – 2020: University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law, Postgraduate research fellow.
Visiting fellowships 2013 – 2020 :
- 12/2019 – 3/2020 Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Visiting researcher
- 7/2019 – 9/2019 University of Cambridge, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Visiting scholar
- 4/2018 – 5/2018 Melbourne Law School, Laureate Program for International Law, Visiting Fellow
- 2/2017 – 4/2017 Melbourne Law School, LPIL, Visiting Fellow
- 4/2016 – 2/2017 Sciences Po école de droit, Paris, Visiting Fellow
- 12/2013 – 11/2014 IREDIES, Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Visiting researcher