Public in law representatives of the political in legal discourse

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On the necessarily public character of law / Neil Walker -- Rediscovering "The Public" : the curious case of Benjamin Constant / Chris McCorkindale -- Democracy, political parties and the will of the people / Andrew Maloney -- Between contract and constitution : international organisations and the protection of global public interests / Richard Collins -- Unconstituted publics? / Scott Veitch -- A dilemma for the civil disobedient : pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in the courtroom? / Piero Moraro -- Justifying civil disobedience with reference to EU public consensus / Haris Psarras -- Excluded publics, included privates : the Janus-Headed nature of the liberal public-private divide / Daniel Augenstein -- The prisoner's right to vote : the creation of an abnormal and excluded public / Vanessa De Greef -- Subjects to citizens : "native" enfranchisement in reconstituting the imperial public of the British Empire c. 1887-1914 / Coel Kirkby -- The public/private dichotomy and the unity of capitalist (re-)production / Gregor Clunie -- The public nature of private law / Claudio Michelon -- Between the public and the private : banking law in 1830s England / Iain Frame -- The public-ness of development in the World Trade Organisation / Stephanie Switzer -- The impact of the distinction between situations and cases on the participation of victims in the International Criminal Court / Ania Salinas and James Sloan -- Addressing the interests of victims : perspectives from the office of the prosecutor / Olivia Swaak-Goldman -- Victims' access to the international criminal court : much remains to be done / Gilbert Bitti and Leïla Bourguiba.