Hannah Arendt and the Law

Marco Goldoni is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values of the University of Antwerp.Christopher McCorkindale is a lecturer in law at the Glasgow School for Business and Society at Glasgow Caledonian University.

• Foreword Richard J BernsteinIntroduction Marco Goldoni and Chris McCorkindalePART I: BETWEEN NOMOS AND LEX: THE CONCEPT OF LAW IN HANNAH ARENDT'S POLITICAL THOUGHT 1. Law beyond Command? An Evaluation of Arendt's Understanding of Law Keith Breen2. Between Freedom and Law: Hannah Arendt on the Promise of Modern Revolution and the Burden of 'The Tradition' Michael A Wilkinson3. Law and the Space of Appearance in Arendt's Thought Johan van der Walt4. A Lawless Legacy: Hannah Arendt and Giorgio Agamben Vivian LiskaPART II: ON CONSTITUTIONALISM AND INSTITUTIONS 5. Arendt's Constitutional Question Emilios Christodoulidis and Andrew Schaap6. The Role of the Supreme Court in Arendt's Political ConstitutionMarco Goldoni and Chris McCorkindale7. A Constitutional Niche for Civil Disobedience? Reflections on Arendt William Smith8. The Search for a New Beginning: Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers as Critics of West German Parliamentarism Kari PalonenPART III: BEYOND THE NATION STATE: HANNAH ARENDT AND INTERNATIONAL LAW A. Public International Law 9. Facing the Abyss: International Law Before the Political Florian Hoffmann10. International Law and Human Plurality in the Shadow of Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt and Raphael Lemkin Seyla Benhabib11. Power and the Rule of Law in Arendt's Thought Hauke Brunkhorst12. Hannah Arendt and the Languages of Global Governance Jan KlabbersB. International Criminal Law 13. 'How Dangerous it Can Be to Be Innocent': War and the Law in the Thought of Hannah Arendt Patricia Owens14. Hannah Arendt's Judgement of Bureaucracy Leora Bilsky15. Arendt in Jerusalem, Demjanjuk in Munich Lawrence DouglasPART IV: THE RIGHT TO HAVE RIGHTS 16. Between Politics and Law: Hannah Arendt and the Subject of Rights Charles Barbour17. Citizens and Persons: Legal Status and Human Rights in Hannah Arendt James Bohman18. The Right to Have Rights: From Human Rights to Citizens' Rights and Back Samantha Besson

...the more striking and radical achievement of Hannah Arendt and the Law is its success as a representational text that gathers together Arendt's insights about law for close reading and which, in carrying out this task, reverses her question about the role of law in politics....the more remarkable and unintended effect of the essays is to welcome Arendt into the fold of legal studies and not the reverse accomplishment that would have been to admit disciplinary differences while accepting that she sometimes relates to law by commenting on it. That is, these texts innovate not simply by extending the secondary literature about Arendt but by using Arendt in order to reorientate and extend legal theory, particularly where such theory looks to understand the political consequences of law.