The Constitutional State

N.W.Barber is the Senior Law Fellow at Trinity College. He specializes in public law, in particular constitutional theory and has lectured on constitutional issues in America, Canada, Spain, and Germany.

• 1. The Paths of Constitutional Theory ; 2. Approaching the State ; 3. The Members of the State ; 4. The Constitution of Social Groups ; 5. States and Their Constitutions ; 6. Laws and Conventions ; 7. The Mentality of the State ; 8. The Responsibility of the State ; 9. Legal Pluralism ; 10. Constitutional Pluralism

What Barber does so successfully and so importantly and so refreshingly is to focus, first and foremost, on society, on the social, on sociality - on the human context in which and on which constitutionalism takes it grip It presents as a result a much more interesting interplay between is and ought in thinking of constitutionalism and the state.