Gráinne de Búrca is Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law at NYU Law School.Claire Kilpatrick is Professor of International and European Labour and Social Law at the European University Institute.Joanne Scott is Professor of European Law at University College London.

These essays help to understand the struggle of the law-making process to adapt to the present transformation of the global governance and to the new challenges that societies are experiencing.

• I. Critical Pathways in Law1. The Globalisation of Critical Discourses on Law: Thoughts on David Trubek's Contribution Duncan Kennedy2. Critical Theory and Institutional Design: David Trubek's Path to New Governance William H Simon3. A Crisis and its Afterlife: Some Reflections on 'Scholars in Self-Estrangement' Ruth Buchanan4. Political Economy and Economic Law in Brazil: From Import Substitution to the Challenges of the New State Activism Mario G Schapiro and Diogo R CoutinhoII. Transformations in Global Governance 5. Law and the Political Economy of the World David Kennedy6. Knowledge in Development, Law and Regulation, or How are We To Distinguish Between the Economic and the Non-Economic? Peer ZumbansenIII. Labour and Globalisation 7. Making Bricks Without Straw: The Creation of a Transnational Labour Regime Harry Arthurs8. From Chile to Vietnam: International Labour Law and Workers' Rights in International Trade Lance Compa9. Globalisation and the Middle Class Katherine VW Stone10. Fragmented Work and Multi-level Labour Market Governance: Informality, Crisis Policy and an Expanded 'Law of Work' Kerry Rittich11. The Trouble with Identity and Progressive Origins in Defending Labour Law Alvaro SantosIV. The European Union 12. New Governance and the European Union: An Empirical and Conceptual Critique Kenneth A Armstrong13. 'Reflexive Contract Governance in the EU': David Trubek's Contribution to a More Focused Approach to EU Contract Legislation Norbert Reich14. A Crisis of Executive Managerialism in the EU: No Alternative? Christian Joerges and Maria WeimerV. Rights Discourse 15. Muslims in Europe: Population Flows, Cultural Clash, Human Rights Henry J Steiner16. Re-judging Social Rights in the European Union Tamara K Hervey17. Social, Economic and Cultural Rights and Economic Development: Limiting or Reinforcing the Market? Helena Alviar GarcíaVI. The Legal Profession and Globalisation 18. Lost in Translation: On the Failed Encounter Between Bourdieu and Law and Society Scholarship and their Respective Blindnesses Yves Dezalay and Bryant G Garth19. BRICS and Politics of Reforming Global Governance: The Case of Investment Arbitration Mihaela Papa20. Corporate Lawyers as an Infant Industry? Legal Market Access and Development Policy John KM Ohnesorge21. Where the Action is: Globalisation, Law and Development, the Sociology of the Legal Profession, and the 'GLEE-full' Career of Dave Trubek David B Wilkins

Gráinne de Búrca is Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law at NYU Law School.Claire Kilpatrick is Professor of International and European Labour and Social Law at the European University Institute.Joanne Scott is Professor of European Law at University College London.

These essays help to understand the struggle of the law-making process to adapt to the present transformation of the global governance and to the new challenges that societies are experiencing.

• I. Critical Pathways in Law1. The Globalisation of Critical Discourses on Law: Thoughts on David Trubek's Contribution Duncan Kennedy2. Critical Theory and Institutional Design: David Trubek's Path to New Governance William H Simon3. A Crisis and its Afterlife: Some Reflections on 'Scholars in Self-Estrangement' Ruth Buchanan4. Political Economy and Economic Law in Brazil: From Import Substitution to the Challenges of the New State Activism Mario G Schapiro and Diogo R CoutinhoII. Transformations in Global Governance 5. Law and the Political Economy of the World David Kennedy6. Knowledge in Development, Law and Regulation, or How are We To Distinguish Between the Economic and the Non-Economic? Peer ZumbansenIII. Labour and Globalisation 7. Making Bricks Without Straw: The Creation of a Transnational Labour Regime Harry Arthurs8. From Chile to Vietnam: International Labour Law and Workers' Rights in International Trade Lance Compa9. Globalisation and the Middle Class Katherine VW Stone10. Fragmented Work and Multi-level Labour Market Governance: Informality, Crisis Policy and an Expanded 'Law of Work' Kerry Rittich11. The Trouble with Identity and Progressive Origins in Defending Labour Law Alvaro SantosIV. The European Union 12. New Governance and the European Union: An Empirical and Conceptual Critique Kenneth A Armstrong13. 'Reflexive Contract Governance in the EU': David Trubek's Contribution to a More Focused Approach to EU Contract Legislation Norbert Reich14. A Crisis of Executive Managerialism in the EU: No Alternative? Christian Joerges and Maria WeimerV. Rights Discourse 15. Muslims in Europe: Population Flows, Cultural Clash, Human Rights Henry J Steiner16. Re-judging Social Rights in the European Union Tamara K Hervey17. Social, Economic and Cultural Rights and Economic Development: Limiting or Reinforcing the Market? Helena Alviar GarcíaVI. The Legal Profession and Globalisation 18. Lost in Translation: On the Failed Encounter Between Bourdieu and Law and Society Scholarship and their Respective Blindnesses Yves Dezalay and Bryant G Garth19. BRICS and Politics of Reforming Global Governance: The Case of Investment Arbitration Mihaela Papa20. Corporate Lawyers as an Infant Industry? Legal Market Access and Development Policy John KM Ohnesorge21. Where the Action is: Globalisation, Law and Development, the Sociology of the Legal Profession, and the 'GLEE-full' Career of Dave Trubek David B Wilkins