Table of Contents

Part I: Introducing the Foundations of Public Law 1. Questioning the Foundations of Public Law and Questioning Foundations of Public Law Michael A Wilkinson and Michael W Dowdle 2. Political Jurisprudence Martin Loughlin Part II: The Methodological Critique 3. Questioning a Uniform Concept of Public Law Andrew Halpin 4. The Tragic Politics of Public Law Panu Minkkinen 5. Immanence and Irreconcilability: On the Character of Public Law as Political Jurisprudence Jacco Bomhoff Part III: The Normative Critique 6. Concrete Order Formation or Rational Will Formation? Constituent Power as the Ratio of Voluntas Hauke Brunkhorst 7. 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 Penner 8. A Conventional Narrative: The Rhetorical Shape of Foundations of Public Law Anna Yeatman 9. Foundations of Public Law and Postnational Constitutionalism Neil Walker Part IV: The Material Critique 10. Putting Public Law in its Place: State-Theoretical Comments on Foundations of Public Law Bob Jessop 11. The Materiality of Political Jurisprudence Marco Goldoni 12. Public Law and the Autonomy of the Political: A Material Critique Michael A Wilkinson Part V: The Comparative Critique 13. Foundations of Public Law: A View from the United States Mark Tushnet 14. The Elusive Quest for Community: The Making of Political Identity in Modern Indian Constitutionalism Mathew John 15. Uncovering the Foundations of Administrative Law? Denis Baranger Part VI: The Response 16. Excavating Foundations Martin Loughlin Bibliography ...........................................................................................................................277 Index ......................................................................................................................................291

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A critical engagement with the central claims of Martin Loughlin's seminal 'Foundations of Public Law', with essays by leading academic lawyers from a diverse range of perspectives.

About the Author

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.