Gunther Teubner is Professor of Private Law and Legal Sociology at Goethe University, Frankfurt

• Introduction: Gunther Teubner’s foundational paradox - Andreas Philippopoulos-MihalopoulosPart I: Law, literature and deconstruction1 Self-subversive justice: contingency or transcendence formula of law?2 The economics of the gift – the positivity of justice: the mutual paranoia of Jacques Derrida and Niklas Luhmann3 Dealing with paradoxes of law: Derrida, Luhmann, Wiethölter4 The Law before its law: Franz Kafka on the (im)possibility of Law’s self-reflectionPart II: Juridical epistemology: reconstructing the horizontal effects of human rights, the private-public dichotomy, and contracting5 The anonymous matrix: human rights violations by ‘private’ transnational actors6 After privatisation? The many autonomies of private law7 In the blind spot: the hybridisation of contractingPart III: The dark side of functional differentiation: the normative response of societal constitutionalism8 A constitutional moment? The logics of ‘hitting the bottom’9 Global Bukovina: legal pluralism in the world society10 Regime-collisions: the vain search for legal unity in the fragmentation of global law11 Horizontal constitutional rights as conflict-of-laws rules: how transnational pharmaceutical groups manipulate scientific publications12 The project of constitutional sociology: irritating nation state constitutionalism13 Exogenous self-binding: how social subsystems externalise their foundational paradoxes in the process of constitutionalisationAfterword: the milestones of Teubner’s neo-pluralism - Alberto FebbrajoIndex

‘For a number of years now Gunther Teubner has been one of the most important and visible figures in the sociology of law. His concept of “societal constitutionalism” has largely shaped the perspective of constitutional sociology. In these essays he deploys the heuristic power of systems theory to argue against a purely political constitutionalism and in favour of re-conceiving constitutionalisation across social fields. The collection represents a highly significant contribution to one of the key theoretical debates of our time.’Emilios Christodoulidis, Chair of Jurisprudence, School of Law, University of Glasgow