Questioning the Foundations of Public Law

Michael A Wilkinson is Associate Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science.Michael W Dowdle is Associate Professor of Law at National University Singapore.

• Part I: Introducing the Foundations of Public Law1. Questioning the Foundations of Public Law and Questioning Foundations of Public Law Michael A Wilkinson and Michael W Dowdle2. Political Jurisprudence Martin LoughlinPart II: The Methodological Critique3. Questioning a Uniform Concept of Public Law Andrew Halpin4. The Tragic Politics of Public Law Panu Minkkinen5. Immanence and Irreconcilability: On the Character of Public Law as Political Jurisprudence Jacco BomhoffPart III: The Normative Critique6. Concrete Order Formation or Rational Will Formation? Constituent Power as the Ratio of Voluntas Hauke Brunkhorst7. Private Law, Potentia and the Ethical: On What Justification Does the State Coercively Tax its Subjects in Order to Build Bridges, Fund the BBC, and Subsidise Charities? James Penner8. A Conventional Narrative: The Rhetorical Shape of Foundations of Public Law Anna Yeatman9. Foundations of Public Law and Postnational Constitutionalism Neil WalkerPart IV: The Material Critique10. Putting Public Law in its Place: State-Theoretical Comments on Foundations of Public Law Bob Jessop11. The Materiality of Political Jurisprudence Marco Goldoni12. Public Law and the Autonomy of the Political: A Material Critique Michael A WilkinsonPart V: The Comparative Critique13. Foundations of Public Law: A View from the United States Mark Tushnet14. The Elusive Quest for Community: The Making of Political Identity in Modern Indian Constitutionalism Mathew John15. Uncovering the Foundations of Administrative Law? Denis BarangerPart VI: The Response16. Excavating Foundations Martin LoughlinBibliography ...........................................................................................................................277Index ......................................................................................................................................291