The Redress of Law

Emilios Christodoulidis holds the Chair of Jurisprudence at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of the award-winning Law and Reflexive Politics (1996), edits the book series Critical Studies in Jurisprudence, and serves as managing editor of Law & Critique.

'By which strategies will we reclaim 'our' constitutions from the demands of global capitalist markets and turn them into the political warrant of the freedom they were meant to serve: the freedom of dignity and solidarity? A masterfully orchestrated plethora of arguments, pairing admirable philosophical depth and practical legal design. Critical constitutional theory at its best.' Bert van Roermund, Honorary Professor (em.) Tilburg Law School

• Introduction; Part I. Political Phenomenology: 1.1. Hannah Arendt and the theory of the bourgeois public sphere; 1.2. Simone Weil, necessity and courage; 1.3. The phenomenology of work; 1.4. Toward a critical phenomenology; Part II. Political Constitutionalism: 2.1. Constituent power and the constitutional distinction; 2.2. Constitutionality; 2.3. Labour, solidarity and the social constitution; 2.4. Constitutionalism adrift; Part III. Market Constitutionalism: 3.1. Market trajectories; 3.2. 'Total market' thinking; 3.3. Europe's social market and the disembedding of labour protection; 3.4. The deep commodification of labour; Part IV. Strategies of redress: 4.1 The constitutional situation; 4.2. Militant formalisms; 4.3. Constitution, autogestion, rupture; 4.4: Constitutionalising contradiction; toward an open constitutional dialectic.