Jurisprudence themes and concepts

Includes index.

Introduction to the relationship between law and politics -- Sovereignty -- The rule of law -- The "inner morality of law" -- Rights -- Legalism and legality -- Citizenship -- Law, politics, and globalisation -- Problems of the rule of law in political transitions -- The rule of law and the state of emergency -- Introduction to legal reasoning -- Legal formalism, legal realism, and the open texture of law -- Theories of legal reasoning : an extended formalism Maccormick -- Principles, interpretation and integrity-Dworkin -- Critical legal analysis-Unger -- Justice, natural law, and the limits of rule following -- Equality, difference, and domination -- Trials, facts, and narratives -- Prejudice and discrimination -- Judging in an unjust society -- Law in modern society and legal modernity -- Formal legal rationality and legal modernity -- Dilemmas of modern law : after modernity law and globalisation -- Legal pluralism -- Juridification -- Ideology and legitimation : the Marxist critique -- Displacing the juridical : Foucault on power and discipline -- Law in the risk society.