FRIEDRICH BALKE teaches Philosophy and German Literature, University of Cologne and Bochum, GermanySIMON CRITCHLEY is Professor of Philosophy, the New School University, New York, USAADAM GEAREY is Reader in Law, Birkbeck Law School, University of London, UKPETRA GEHRING is University Professor for Theoretical Philosophy, Darmstadt University of Technology, GermanyDUNCAN KENNEDY is Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School, USAPETER KRAPP is Associate Professor of Film& Media Studies, and Director of the Doctoral Program in Visual Studies, University of California Irvine, USAPIERRE LEGRAND is Professor of Law at University of Paris 1, FranceANNE ORFORD is Professor of Law at University of Melbourne, AustraliaAVITAL RONELL is Professor of German and Comparative Literature, as well as being Director of the Center for Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies at New York University, USAADAM THURSCHWELL teaches at Cleveland Marshall College of Law in Cleveland, Ohio, USAELISABETH WEBER teaches German and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

• Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: A Philosophy of Legal Enigmas; P.Goodrich, F.Hoffman, M.Rosenfeld & C.Vismann PART I: THEORIES The Reader: Derrida Among the Philosophers; S.Critchley European introduction: Four Objections; D.Kennedy The Archive and the Beginning of Law; C.Vismann The Jurisprudence of the 'Force of Law'; P.Gehring Derrida's Ethical Turn: The Case of Terrorism; M.Rosenfeld Derrida and Foucault on Sovereignty; F.Balke PART II: DISCIPLINES Critical Intimacies: International Law; A.Orford 'Il n'y a pas de hors-texte': Intimations of Jacques Derrida as Comparatist-at-Law; P.Legrand Specters and Scholars: Derrida and the Tragedy of Political Thought; A.Thurschwell Between Forgiveness and Forgetting; P.Krapp Phantom and Justice; E.Weber Deadlines: Derrida and Critical Legal Scholarship; F.Hoffman Literature, Poetics, Law; A.Geary PART III: ENVOI Un Cygne Noir; P.Goodrich Saying Good-Bye; A.Ronell Index