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Introduction 1

PART Ⅰ： LAW AND POLITICS 7

1 General themes 9

1.1 Introduction to the relationship between law and politics 10

On power - political power and legal power 10

Elements of the constitutional state 11

Jurisdiction， state and legal system 13

1.2 Sovereignty 15

Sovereignty： a contested concept 15

Attributing sovereignty - to whom or what？ 16

Post-sovereignty？ 18

1.3 The rule of law and the ‘inner morality of law’ 20

The rule of law- meaning and value 20

Challenges to the rule of law 20

An inner morality of law 22

1.4 Rights 26

Civil， political and social rights 28

Politicising law-legalising politics 29

The indivisibility of rights？ 30

Rights in international and global context 31

1.5 Identifying valid law 33

Hart’s concept of law 35

Kelsen’s pure theory of law 38

Legality and validity 40

Injustice and invalidity 44

2 Advanced topics 50

2.1 Justice 51

Introduction 51

Utilitarianism versus libertarianism 52

Liberalism： Rawls’s justice as fairness 56

Socialism 59

2.2 Constitutionalism and citizenship 65

The paradox of constitutionalism 65

Representation and foundation 67

Constitutional ‘moments’ 68

Citizenship： liberal and republican 70

2.3 Law， politics and globalisation 74

Globalisation and the reconfigured State 74

Sovereignty after globalisation 75

Constitutionalism beyond the State 78

2.4 Law and the state of emergency 81

Emergency， derogation and the ‘war’ on terror 81

Carl Schmitt： Sovereignty and the exception 84

2.5 The rule of law in political transitions 88

Dilemmas of the rule of law 88

Difficulties in establishing accountability and responsibility 89

Forms of justice 90

Tutorials 96

PART Ⅱ： LEGAL REASONING 111

1 General themes 113

1.1 Introduction to legal reasoning 114

1.2 Legal formalism 117

What is formalism？ 117

The ‘pure theory of law’ and the notion of self-containment 118

Formalism and deduction 120

The promise of formalism 122

1.3 American Legal Realism 123

‘The Path of the Law’： law as prophecy 125

Rule-scepticism 126

Fact-scepticism 128

The faith in science 129

1.4 Rules， ‘open texture’ and the limits of discretion 131

HLA Hart and the ‘open texture’ of legal language 131

Neil MacCormick： the defence of an ‘extended formalism’ 133

1.5 Law as a practice of interpretation 137

Dworkin on ‘hard’ cases 137

The ‘right answer’： law as integrity 140

1.6 Critical Legal Studies 142

2 Advanced topics 148

2.1 Justice， natural law and the limits of rule-following 149

Moral reason and hard cases 149

John Finnis and the morality of the law 150

2.2 Equality， difference and domination： feminist critiques of adjudication 154

Initial challenges 154

Critiquing the form of legal reasoning 155

Comparing approaches 157

2.3 Trials， facts and narratives 159

The legacy of fact-scepticism 159

Trials and perceptions of fact： language and narrative in the courtroom 162

Trials， regulation and justice 165

2.4 Judging in an unjust society 168

2.5 Law and deconstruction 174

Tutorials 187

PART Ⅲ： LAW AND MODERNITY 201

1 General themes 203

1.1 The advent of modernity 204

1.2 Law and social solidarity 210

1.3 Law， power and exploitation 215

The function of law 218

Ideology 219

Marxists and the law 222

1.4 Formal legal rationality and legal modernity 224

Forms of legal rationality 224

Forms of political authority 226

The development of legal modernity 228

1.5 Transformations of modern law 233

The materialisation of modern law 233

Law in the welfare state 235

The welfare state and globalisation 239

‘Unthinking’ modern law 241

2 Advanced topics 247

2.1 Legal pluralism 248

Classical and contemporary legal pluralism 248

Strong and weak legal pluralism， and the position of the State 250

Empirical， conceptual and political approaches to legal pluralism 251

Future directions in legal pluralism 253

2.2 Juridification 255

Introductory remarks 255

Habermas on juridification 257

Juridification and the ‘regulatory trilemma’ 258

Juridification as depoliticisation 260

A fifth epoch？ 262

2.3 Displacing the juridical： Foucault on power and discipline 264

Introductory remarks 264

Discipline and biopower 265

Governmentality 268

A theory of legal modernity？ 269

2.4 Law in the risk society 271

Introduction 271

Features of the‘risk society’ 272

Law in the risk society 274

Individualisation 276

2.5 Law and autopoiesis 278

The concept of autopoiesis 278

An inventory of concepts 279

The coding of social systems 281

Society， sub-systems and the law 283

How does ‘the law think’？ 284

Tutorials 290

Index 299