Table of Contents

Part 1: Introductions 1 From Restricted to General Jurisprudence 2 Law’s Others: Poststructuralism and Law Part 2: Classical Jurisprudence 3 Natural Law, Resistance and Utopia 4 Justice: A Short History of (a Long) Failure 5 England’s Dreaming: The Spirits of Positivism 6 Manuscript Found in a Bottle: Notes Towards a Theory of Judgement Part 3: Philosophical Differences 7 The Colour of Law: Identity, Recognition, Rights 8 Letter to a Wound: Marxism, Justice and the Social Order Part 4: Critical Jurisprudence 9 News from Nowhere: Anxiety, Critical Legal Studies and Critical ‘Tradition(s)’ 10 White Law, Black Power: Racism, Resistance and Critical Jurisprudence 11 ‘At the Stroke of Midnight . . .’: Postcolonial Jurisprudence Part 5: Aesthetic Jurisprudence 12 Psychoanalysis Becomes the Law 13 The Lion for Real: Law and the Demands of Literature

About the Author

Costas Douzinas is Professor of Law and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Birkbeck College, University of London. Adam Gearey is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Birkbeck College, University of London.