Policy of Law

Mauro Zamboni is an Associate Professor in Jurisprudence at the School of Law, Stockholm University. He has been a visiting scholar at the European Academy of Legal Theory, Columbia University, Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School. He currently teaches Jurisprudence and Transnational Commercial Law.

• Introduction: ‘Not Law but Politics-Smuggled-into-Law’ 1 Law and Politics in Contemporary Legal Theory2 Law, Politics and the Grey Box3 Law and Policy4 The Policy of Law: Opening and Framing the Field5 The Policy of Law AnalysiS6 The Policy of Law Analysis: What is the Point?

...THE POLICY OF LAW: A LEGAL THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK, at once builds on the impressive scholarship of [Zamboni's] intellectual forebears while at the same time offering new insight into a (surprisingly) understudied area of inquiry: the relationship between politics and law...The book is accessible to the sophisticated reader and will be particularly interesting to graduate students and advanced undergraduates who are curious about the ways in which different jurisprudential paradigms can be organized around political..dimensions...In seeking to narrow the scope of inquiry to just what the dominant legal theories have to say about the relationship between law and politics, Zamboni is broadening our understanding both of those foundational theories and of the connection between law and politics itself. As such, he has performed a real intellectual service for contemporary students of legal theory, all of whom should give this book a glance. Beau Breslin Law and Politics Book Review Vol. 18 No.5 (May 2008)