Contents:
Acknowledgements vii;
Series Preface ix;
Introduction xi;
PART I: Orientations:
1. The sociology of law as an empirical theory of validity, Wolfgang Schluchter 3;
PART II: Legal Form and Legal Rationality: Max Weber's Legacy:
2. Formal and substantive rationality in American law: a Weberian perspective, Ronan Shamir 29;
3. Process rationality as legal governance: a comparative perspective, Wolf Heydebrand) 57;
4. Some false premises of Max Weber's sociology of law, Harold J. Berman 83;
PART III: Law, Experience and Belief: Durkheim, Durkheimians and Beyond:
5. A formal restatement of Durkheim's 'division of labor' theory, Jack P. Gibbs 99;
6. Durkheim on collective memory, Barbara A. Misztal 125;
7. Condtructing the juristic Durkheim? Paul Huvelin's adaptation of Durkheimian sociology, Roger Cotterrell 147 ;
8. Emmanuel Lévy and legal studies: a view from abroad, Roger Cotterrell 161;
9. Georges Davy and the origin of contract, Geoffrey MacCormack 173;
10. Integrating reciprocal perspectives: on Gurvitch's theory of immediate jural experience, Reza Banakar 185;
PART IV: Law as Discourse, System, Field: Habermas, Luhmann, Bourdieu:
11. Can rights, democracy and justice be reconciled through discourse theory? Reflections on Habermas's proceduralist paradigm of law, Michel Rosenfield 213;
12. Habermas on nationalism and cosmopolitanism, Pablo de Grieff 247;
13. De Collisione Discursuum: communicative rationalities in law, morality and politics, Gunther Teubner 269;
14. The ambitious modesty of Niklas Luhmann, Michael King and Anton Schütz (1994) 287;
15. Economics of gift - positivity of justice: the mutual paranoia of Jacques Derrida and Niklas Luhmann, Gunther Teubner 315;
16. On Pierre Bourdieu's legal thought, Mauricio García Vilegas 335;
PART V: Foucault, Discipline and Regulation:
17. Between governance and discipline: the law and Michel Foucault, Victor Tadros 353;
18. From discipline to flexibilization? Rereading Foucault in the shadow of globalization, Nancy Fraser 383;
19. The death of the social? re-figuring the territory of government, Nikolas Rose 395;
PART VI: Sovereignty, Globalisation and the Rule of Law:
20. Stealing the natural language: the fiction of the social contract and legality in the light of Nietzsche’s Philosophy 425;
21. Now the machine runs itself: Carl Schmitt on Hobbes and Kelsen 445;
22. International law as political theology: How to read Nomos der Erde? 465;
23. The rule of law in transition: Revisiting franz Neumann’s Sociology of Legality 485;
24. Legal theory of globalization? 505;
Name Index 523.