Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy, Volume 1

Preface
Contents
List of Contributors
1. The Germ of Law
	I. Introduction
	II. The Germ of Law
	III. Violence and Self-Help in Roman Law
	IV. The Effectiveness of Law
	V. Force as Content of the Law
	VI. Law and State
	VII. Law and Order
	VIII. Criticism
2. Legal Monism: An American History
	I. Introduction
	II. Some Initial Clarifications
	III. Four Types of Conflicts Rule
	IV. Rules of Authorisation: The Traditional View
	V. Legal Realism, Pluralism and the Choice-of-Law Revolution
	VI. Conclusion
3. Why Read Carl Schmitt?
	I. Introduction
	II. Division
	III. Decision
	IV. Derision
	V. Division, Decision and Derision in the Reception of Schmitt’s Work
	VI. Conclusion
4. States of Emergency Beyond the Nation State?
	I. Introduction
	II. Sovereignty à la Carl Schmitt
	III. Executive Power Beyond the State?
	IV. Conclusion
5. Scattered Critical Observations around Legal Philosophy and Legal Theory in France
	I. Introduction
	II. The Landscape
	III. Institutional Weakness
	IV. The Framework of a Methodological Confusion
	V. A Literary Paradigm of Theory
	VI. Realism as Ideological Auxiliary
6. State and Trade in the Twenty-First Century
	I. Introduction
	II. What is Global Economic Constitutionalism?
	III. The Evolution of the International System
	IV. Whither Legitimacy?
	V. Conclusion
7. The Rule of Law, Legitimate Authority and Constitutionalism
	I. Introduction
	II. Rule of Law and Legitimate Authority
	III. The Rule of Law or What? Three Distinctions
	IV. Rule of Law and Constitutionalism
Index