Introduction 1
PART Ⅰ Concepts: decision, institutions and concrete order 11
1 The bumpy road to institutionalism: Schmitt's way-out of decisionism 13
2 Exploring Schmitt's institutionalism: institutions and normality 30
3 Institutionalist decisionism: law as the shelter of society 46
4 Institution and identity: reassessing Schmitt's political theory 62
PART Ⅱ Oppositions: his 'enemies' and 'friends' 77
5 Schmitt vs. Kelsen: the social ontology of legal life 79
6 Schmitt vs. Hauriou: the politicization of institutionalism 94
7 Schmitt vs. Romano: institutionalism without pluralism? 109
8 Schmitt vs. Mortati: the concretization of the concrete order 124
PART Ⅲ Implications: Schmitt's institutionalism and the current legal debate 141
9 The impossibility of legal indeterminacy 143
10 The inconceivability of legal pluralism 158
Notes 174
Bibliography 190
Index 199