Marx and law

Table of contents
Contents: Series preface;
Introduction: Marx's legacy;
Part I Principal Themes in Marx's Analysis of Law:
The metaphysics of law: an essay on the very young Marx, Donald R. Kelly;
Marxist perspectives in the sociology of law, Steven Spitzer;
Marx and law, Andrew Vincent.
Part II Marx's Work and Key Concepts in Legal Theory:
The Form and Functions of Law:
Selected extracts from The Institutions of Private Law and Their Social Functions, Karl Renner;
Commodity form and legal form: an essay on the 'relative autonomy' of law, Isaac D. Balbus. Ideology:
The ideology of law: advances and problems in recent applications of the concept of ideology to the analysis of law, Alan Hunt;
On recent Marxist theories of law and the state and juridico-political ideology, Bob Jessop. Justice:
The concept of justice in Marx, Engels, and others, William Leon McBride;
Facts, values and Marxism, Susan M. Easton; Marx and justice, James Daly. Rights:
The problem with Marx on rights, Stephen A. Brown;
Retrieving Marx for the human rights project, Brad R. Roth. Crime and Punishment:
Marx and Engels on law, crime and morality, Paul Q. Hirst;
Correspondence: radical deviancy theory and Marxism. A reply to Taylor and Walton, Paul Q. Hirst;
Toward a political economy of crime, William J. Chambliss;
Marxism and retribution, Jeffrie G. Murphy. International Law:
Marxism and international law: a contemporary analysis, B.S. Chimni;
The commodity-form theory of international law: an introduction, China Mieville.
Part III Socialist Reconstruction:
The general theory of law and Marxism, Evgeny B. Pashukanis;
Commodity and the subject, Evgeny B. Pashukanis;
The 'withering away' of law, Christine Sypnowich.
Part IV Marx and Law: Future Directions:
Marxism after Communism, Michael Burawoy;
Marxism and the continuing irrelevance of normative theory, Brian Leiter;
Index.