1 Interview: 'In God we trust' Can Relieve Us of Trusting Each Other 1
2 'The Desperate Vacuum': Imperialism and Law in the Experience of Enlightenment 17
3 Law as Resistance 35
4 Law's Infamy 41
5 'We know what it is when you do not ask us': Nationalism as Racism 67
6 Tears or the Law: Colonial Resistance and Legal Determination 91
7 Why the Law is Also Nonviolent 115
8 'No Higher Duty': Mabo and the Failure of Legal Foundation 147
9 'Gods would be needed...': American Empire and the Rule of (International) Law 167
10 Breaking the Unity of the World: Savage Sources and Feminine Law 205
11 The Immanence of Empire 223
12 Bare Sovereignty: Homo Sacer and the Insistence of Law 249
13 Latin Roots: Imperialism and the Formation of Modern Law 275
14 'What Are the Gods to us Now?': Secular Theology and the Modernity of Law 293
Name Index 323