Contents: Introduction. Orientations: Wolfgang Schluchter (2002), The sociology of law as an empirical theory of validity. Legal Form and Legal Rationality: Max Weber's Legacy: Ronen Shamir (1993), Formal and substantive rationality in American law: a Weberian perspective; Wolf Heydebrand (2003), Process rationality as legal governance: a comparative perspective; Harold J. Berman (1987), Some false premises of Max Weber's sociology of law. Law, Experience and Belief: Durkheim, Durkheimians and Beyond: Jack P. Gibbs (2003), A formal restatement of Durkheim's 'Division of Labor' theory; Barbara A. Misztal (2003), Durkheim on collective memory; Roger Cotterrell (2004), Constructing the juristic Durkheim?: Paul Huvelin's adaptation of Durkheimian sociology; Roger Cotterrell (2004), Emmanuel Lévy and legal studies: a view from abroad; Geoffrey MacCormack (1980), Georges Davy and the origin of contract; Reza Banakar (2001), Integrating reciprocal perspectives: on Georges Gurvitch's theory of immediate Jural experience. Law as Discourse, System, Field: Habermas, Luhmann, Bourdieu: Michel Rosenfeld (1996), Can rights, democracy and justice be reconciled through discourse theory? reflections on Habermas's proceduralist paradigm of law; Pablo De Greiff (2002), Habermas on nationalism and cosmopolitanism; Gunther Teubner (1996), De Collisione Discursuum: communicative rationalities in law, morality and politics; Michael King and Anton Schütz (1994), The ambitious modesty of Niklas Luhmann; Gunther Teubner (2001), Economics of gift - positivity of justice: the mutual paranoia of Jacques Derrida and Niklas Luhmann; Mauricio García Villegas (2004), On Pierre Bourdieu's legal thought.
Foucault, Discipline and Regulation: Victor Tadros (1998), Between governance and discipline: the law and Michel Foucault; Nancy Fraser (2003), From discipline to flexibilization? rereading Foucault in the shadow of globalization; Nikolas Rose (1996), The death of the social? re-figuring the territory of government. Sovereignty, Globalisation and the Rule of Law: Jiri Priban (2003), Stealing the natural language: the fiction of the social contract and legality in the light of Nietzsche's philosophy; David Dyzenhaus (1994), Now the machine runs itself: Carl Schmitt on Hobbes and Kelsen; Martti Koskenniemi (2004), International law as political theology: how to read Nomos der Erde?; Roger Cotterrell (1996), The rule of law in transition: revisiting Franz Neumann's sociology of legality; William E. Scheuerman (2001), Franz Neumann: legal theorist of globalization?; Index.