Derrida and Law

Pierre Legrand is Professor of Law, University of Paris Panthéon - Sorbonne, Paris, France

• Contents: Introduction; Part I Accounts at Deconstruction's Edge: From the trace to the law: Derridean politics, Leonard Lawlor; Why deconstruction is beneficial, Ben Mathews; Derrida on law: or, poststructuralism gets serious, John P. McCormick; Derrida and law: legitimate fictions, Margaret Davies; 'Deconstruction is justice', Elisabeth Weber. Part II Testimonials on Legal Hauntology: The economy of violence: Derrida on law and justice, Roberto Buonamano; The jurisprudence of the 'force of law', Petra Gehring; 'Le hors de texte, c'est moi': the politics of form and the domestication of deconstruction, Pierre Schlag; The ideality of difference: toward objectivity in legal interpretation, Alan Brudner. Part III Openings in Academic Discursivity: Europe in America: grammatology, legal studies, and the politics of transmission, Peter Goodrich; Deconstructive practice and legal theory, J.M. Balkin; On the deconstruction of jurisprudence: 'Fin(n)is Philosophiae', Costas Douzinas and Ronnie Warrington; Paradoxically, Derrida: for a comparative legal studies, Pierre Legrand. Part IV Actualities of Deconstruction's Presence: Economics of gift - positivity of justice: the mutual paranoia of Jacques Derrida and Niklas Luhmann, Gunther Teubner; Derrida's ethical turn and America: looking back from the crossroads of global terrorism and the enlightenment, Michel Rosenfeld; 'What are the gods to us now?': secular theology and the modernity of law, Peter Fitzpatrick. Name Index.