This series offers a forum to writers concerned that the central presuppositions of the liberal
tradition have been severely corroded, neglected, or misappropriated by overly rationalistic …

Law's imperial reach, it massive authority, in liberal politics is a brute, recurring fact. In Law's
Empire, Dworkin attests to its scope and power with candour:" We live in and by the law. It …

OF THE VARIOUS TENSIONS EXPERIENCED by a modern legal system, the most
important concern the relationship between the individual and society. Any attempt to deal …

After 1989 human rights have expanded into a vernacular touching every aspect of social
life. They are seen as the key concept in morals and politics and a main tool for forging …

There are a number of straightforward ways to establish connections between modern law
and liberalism; indeed, it is so facile that one is inclined to regard the requisite links as …

This chapter considers a number of critical theories of law which provide alternative
explanations of the function and position of law in (post) modern,(post) liberal states. The …

A valuable collection of articles by prominent legal and political philosophers on aspects of
recent liber-al theory. The contributors examine the attempts of contemporary writers such as …

Marxist and other critical legal scholarship has long critiqued Marx's initial base-
superstructure dichotomy, which relegated law to a superstructural add-on that is ultimately …

Liberals who promote the ideals of individuality, plurality and freedom have sometimes been
and ought always to be skeptical concerning institutionalism and wary of established …

The liberal project was the project of specifying universal limits to the authority of
government and, by implication, to the scope of political life. The task of liberal theory was to …