Jens Meierhenrich is Associate Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and previously taught for a decade at Harvard University. His books include The Legacies of Law, which won the American Political Science Association's 2009 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book in politics, government, or international affairs; and, as co-editor, The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt.

• Introduction: The Remnants of the Rechtsstaat 1: Behemoth and Beyond: Theories of the Nazi State 2: The Making of a Cause Lawyer 3: The Debate about the Rechtsstaat in Nazi Germany, 1933-1936 4: An Ethnography of Nazi Law: The Gestation of The Dual State, 1936-1941 5: "A Rational Core within an Irrational Shell": An Institutional Theory of Dictatorship 6: The Decline of a Classic: Explaining the Reception of The Dual State Conclusion: Authoritarian Rule of Law

As early as 1938, Ernst Fraenkel, a German labor lawyer and social democrat chased out of Germany because of his Jewish origin attempted an analysis of Nazi law. He argued that law and lawlessness existed side-by-side, and deviously complemented one another. Meierhenrich has carefully and admirably excavated this intellectual achievement, and reimagined Fraenkels dual state for the twenty-first century. This is a terrific book and of immediate relevance for understanding the present: dual states are everywhere.