The Redress of Law

Emilios Christodoulidis holds the Chair of Jurisprudence at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of the award-winning Law and Reflexive Politics (1996), edits the book series Critical Studies in Jurisprudence, and serves as managing editor of Law & Critique.

• Introduction; Part I. Political Phenomenology: 1.1. Hannah Arendt and the theory of the bourgeois public sphere; 1.2. Simone Weil, necessity and courage; 1.3. The phenomenology of work; 1.4. Toward a critical phenomenology; Part II. Political Constitutionalism: 2.1. Constituent power and the constitutional distinction; 2.2. Constitutionality; 2.3. Labour, solidarity and the social constitution; 2.4. Constitutionalism adrift; Part III. Market Constitutionalism: 3.1. Market trajectories; 3.2. 'Total market' thinking; 3.3. Europe's social market and the disembedding of labour protection; 3.4. The deep commodification of labour; Part IV. Strategies of redress: 4.1 The constitutional situation; 4.2. Militant formalisms; 4.3. Constitution, autogestion, rupture; 4.4: Constitutionalising contradiction; toward an open constitutional dialectic.

'By which strategies will we reclaim 'our' constitutions from the demands of global capitalist markets and turn them into the political warrant of the freedom they were meant to serve: the freedom of dignity and solidarity? A masterfully orchestrated plethora of arguments, pairing admirable philosophical depth and practical legal design. Critical constitutional theory at its best.' Bert van Roermund, Honorary Professor (em.) Tilburg Law School