Questioning the Foundations of Public Law

Part I: Introducing the Foundations of Public Law
1. Questioning the Foundations of Public Law and Questioning Foundations of Public Law
Michael A Wilkinson and Michael W Dowdle
2. Political Jurisprudence
Martin Loughlin

Part II: The Methodological Critique
3. Questioning a Uniform Concept of Public Law
Andrew Halpin
4. The Tragic Politics of Public Law
Panu Minkkinen
5. Immanence and Irreconcilability: On the Character of Public Law as Political Jurisprudence
Jacco Bomhoff

Part III: The Normative Critique
6. Concrete Order Formation or Rational Will Formation? Constituent Power as the Ratio of Voluntas
Hauke Brunkhorst
7. Private Law, Potentia and the Ethical: On What Justification Does the State Coercively Tax its Subjects in Order to Build Bridges, Fund the BBC, and Subsidise Charities?
James Penner
8. A Conventional Narrative: The Rhetorical Shape of Foundations of Public Law
Anna Yeatman
9. Foundations of Public Law and Postnational Constitutionalism
Neil Walker

Part IV: The Material Critique
10. Putting Public Law in its Place: State-Theoretical Comments on Foundations of Public Law
Bob Jessop
11. The Materiality of Political Jurisprudence
Marco Goldoni
12. Public Law and the Autonomy of the Political: A Material Critique
Michael A Wilkinson

Part V: The Comparative Critique
13. Foundations of Public Law: A View from the United States
Mark Tushnet
14. The Elusive Quest for Community: The Making of Political Identity in Modern Indian Constitutionalism
Mathew John
15. Uncovering the Foundations of Administrative Law?
Denis Baranger

Part VI: The Response
16. Excavating Foundations
Martin Loughlin
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Index ......................................................................................................................................291