PROLOGUE 3
1 Two Challengers of Normative Legal Scholarship 3
PART Ⅰ THE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL DEPENDENCE OF THE LAW’S RATIO 37
2 The Traditions of Law 37
3 The Heritage of the Historical School： German Nineteenth-Century Legal Scholarship 75
4 The Critique of Conceptualism： Legal Realism and Analytic Jurisprudence 105
PART Ⅱ LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP AND THE COHERENCE OF LAW 145
5 The Law’s System： From Total to Local Coherence 145
6 Concepts， Principles and Theories 173
PART Ⅲ RATIO AND VOLUNTAS IN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 207
7 The Rule of Law and the Rechtsstaat 207
8 Gouvernement des Juges？ 241
EPILOGUE 287
9 The Law’s Farewell to the Nation State？ 287
Bibliography 315
Index 335