Questioning the foundations of public law

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Questioning the foundations of public law and questioning foundations of public law / Michael A. Wilkinson and Michael W. Dowdle -- Political jurisprudence / Martin Loughlin -- Questioning a uniform concept of public law / Andrew Halpin -- The tragic politics of public law / Panu Minkkinen -- Immanence and irreconcilability : on the character of public law as political jurisprudence / Jacco Bomhoff -- Concrete order formation or rational will formation? : constituent power as the ratio of voluntas / Hauke Brunkhorst -- 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 E Penner -- A conventional narrative : the rhetorical shape of foundations of public law / Anna Yeatman -- Foundations of public law and postnational constitutionalism / Neil Walker -- Putting public law in its place : state-theoretical comments on foundations of public law / Bob Jessop -- The materiality of political jurisprudence / Marco Goldoni -- Public law and the autonomy of the political : a material critique / Michael A Wilkinson -- Foundations of public law : a view from the United States / Mark Tushnet -- The elusive quest for community : the making of political identity in modern Indian constitutionalism / Mathew John -- Uncovering the foundations of administrative law? / Denis Baranger -- Excavating foundations / Martin Loughlin.