Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts : Themes and Concepts Book

Introduction     vii
Acknowledgements and attributions     xiii
Contributors     xv
Abbreviations     xvii
Law and politics     1
General themes     3
Introduction to the relationship between law and politics     3
Sovereignty     9
The rule of law     17
The 'inner morality of law'     20
Rights     27
Advanced topics     37
Legalism and legality     37
Citizenship: competing conceptions     44
Law, politics and globalisation     53
Problems of the rule of law in political transitions     62
The rule of law and the state of emergency     71
Tutorials     75
Legal reasoning     89
General themes     91
Introduction to legal reasoning     91
Legal formalism, legal realism and the open texture of law     95
Three theories of legal reasoning     107
Advanced topics     123
Justice, natural law and the limits of rule following     123
Equality, difference and domination: feminist critiques of adjudication     129
Trials, facts and narratives     136
Understanding discrimination     146
Judging in an unjust society     155
Tutorials     162
Law and modernity     175
General themes     177
Law in modern society and legal modernity     177
Formal legal rationality and legal modernity     181
Dilemmas of modern law     191
After modernity? Law and globalisation     198
Advanced topics     207
Legal pluralism     207
Juridification     216
Law, ideology and legitimation: the Marxist critique     227
Displacing the juridical: Foucault on power and discipline     236
Law in the risk society     245
Tutorials     254
Bibliography     263
Index     273