After Public Law

Cormac Mac Amhlaigh is a Senior Lecturer in Public Law at the University of Edinburgh School of Law. He received his PhD from the European University Institute and his research focuses on UK constitutional law, public law and constitutional theory, the relevance and use of public law concepts beyond the state, and the theory and practice of human rights law.Claudio Michelon is Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Edinburgh School of Law. His current research focuses on legal decision-making, legal epistemology, and private law theory. He is the author of Being Apart from Reasons (Springer, 2006) and Aceitação e objetividade (2004).Neil Walker holds the Regius Chair of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author or editor of numerous volumes, including The Paradox of Constitutionalism (with Martin Loughlin, OUP 2007), Europe's Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice (OUP 2004), Civlizing Security ( CUP, 2007) with Ian Loader, and Europe's Constitutional Mosaic ( Hart, 2011) with Jo Shaw and Stephen Tierney.

• 1. Introduction ; PART ONE: THE NATURE OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LAW ; 2. The Nature of Public Law ; 3. Public Law and the Emergence of the Political ; 4. Private and Public: Some Banalities About a Platitude ; 5. The Public, the Private, and the Law ; PART TWO: THE DOMAIN, VALUES, AND FUNCTIONS OF PUBLIC LAW ; 6. Defending the Domain of Public Law ; 7. Public Law and Democracy: The Case of Constitutional Rights ; 8. The Nation as 'The Public': The Resilient Functionalism of Public Law ; 9. Public Law, Private Law, and National Identity ; PART THREE: THE EVOLUTION OF PUBLIC LAW? ; 10. Globalization and the Transcendence of the Public/Private Divide - What is Public Law under Conditions of Globalization? ; 11. (The Failure of) Public law and the Deliberative Turn ; 12. The Postnational Horizon of Constitutionalism and Public Law: Paradigm Extension or Paradigm Exhaustion? ; 13. The Global Governance of Public Law ; 14. The (re)Constitution of the Public

This explorative volume brings together scholars to map the domain of public law and, despite its epigrammatic title, it is a towering intellectual contribution to the dynamism of public law.