Part 1 Locating law / locating nation: nationalism as racism, Peter Fitzpatrick; law in place, Eve Darian-Smith; racist authorization, interpretive law and the changing character of the refugee, Patricia Tuitt; challenging the national dream, Audrey Kobayashi. Part 2 The new Europe - east and west: law and the constitution of the "immigrant" in Europe, Abdul Paliwala; paradoxes of European citizenship, Roel de Lange; oppression in the new Latvia, Bill Bowring; Czech society in the 1989-93 period, Jiri Priban. Part 3 first nations / imperial nations: some reflections upon Victorian jurisprudence, Maria Drakopoulou; the construction of a secular identity for Islam, Michael King; New Zealand, J.Kelsey; race and nation in South African common law, Martin Chanock.