This book fills a major gap in the ever-increasing secondary literature on Hannah Arendt's political thought by providing a dedicated and coherent treatment of the many, various and interesting things which Arendt had to say about law.

Foreword Richard J Bernstein Introduction Marco Goldoni and Chris McCorkindale PART I: BETWEEN NOMOS AND LEX: THE CONCEPT OF LAW IN HANNAH ARENDT'S POLITICAL THOUGHT 1. Law beyond Command? An Evaluation of Arendt's Understanding of Law Keith Breen 2. Between Freedom and Law: Hannah Arendt on the Promise of Modern Revolution and the Burden of 'The Tradition' Michael A Wilkinson 3. Law and the Space of Appearance in Arendt's Thought Johan van der Walt 4. A Lawless Legacy: Hannah Arendt and Giorgio Agamben Vivian Liska PART II: ON CONSTITUTIONALISM AND INSTITUTIONS 5. Arendt's Constitutional Question Emilios Christodoulidis and Andrew Schaap 6. The Role of the Supreme Court in Arendt's Political Constitution Marco Goldoni and Chris McCorkindale 7. A Constitutional Niche for Civil Disobedience? Reflections on Arendt William Smith 8. The Search for a New Beginning: Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers as Critics of West German Parliamentarism Kari Palonen PART III: BEYOND THE NATION STATE: HANNAH ARENDT AND INTERNATIONAL LAW A. Public International Law 9. Facing the Abyss: International Law Before the Political Florian Hoffmann 10. International Law and Human Plurality in the Shadow of Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt and Raphael Lemkin Seyla Benhabib 11. Power and the Rule of Law in Arendt's Thought Hauke Brunkhorst 12. Hannah Arendt and the Languages of Global Governance Jan Klabbers B. International Criminal Law 13. 'How Dangerous it Can Be to Be Innocent': War and the Law in the Thought of Hannah Arendt Patricia Owens 14. Hannah Arendt's Judgement of Bureaucracy Leora Bilsky 15. Arendt in Jerusalem, Demjanjuk in Munich Lawrence Douglas PART IV: THE RIGHT TO HAVE RIGHTS 16. Between Politics and Law: Hannah Arendt and the Subject of Rights Charles Barbour 17. Citizens and Persons: Legal Status and Human Rights in Hannah Arendt James Bohman 18. The Right to Have Rights: From Human Rights to Citizens' Rights and Back Samantha Besson

...the more striking and radical achievement of Hannah Arendt and the Law is its success as a representational text that gathers together Arendt's insights about law for close reading and which, in carrying out this task, reverses her question about the role of law in politics. ...the more remarkable and unintended effect of the essays is to welcome Arendt into the fold of legal studies and not the reverse accomplishment that would have been to admit disciplinary differences while accepting that she sometimes relates to law by commenting on it. That is, these texts innovate not simply by extending the secondary literature about Arendt but by using Arendt in order to reorientate and extend legal theory, particularly where such theory looks to understand the political consequences of law.

This book fills a gap in the literature on Hannah Arendt's political thought by providing a detailed and coherent treatment of the many, various and interesting things which Arendt had to say about the law. The collection brings together lawyers as well as Arendt scholars from a range of disciplines (philosophy, political science, international relations), who have engaged in an internal debate, the dynamism of which is captured in print. The book will be of interest to law scholars and Arendt scholars alike.

Stimulating works that address fundamental issues in legal philosophy. The intention of this series is that it should encompass monographs and collections of essays that address the fundamental issues in legal philosophy. The foci are conceptual and normative in character, not empirical. Studies addressing the idea of law as a species of practical reason are especially welcome. Recognizing that there is no occasion to sharply distinguish analytic and systematic work in the field from historico-critical research, the editors also welcome studies in the history of legal philosophy. Contributions to the series, inevitably crossing disciplinary lines, will be of interest to students and professionals in moral, political, and legal philosophy. Advisory Board Prof Robert Alexy (Kiel) Prof Samantha Besson (Fribourg, CH) Prof Emilios Christodoulidis (Glasgow) Prof Sean Coyle (University of Birmingham) Prof Mattias Kumm (New York) Prof Stanley Paulson (St. Louis and Kiel) Prof Arthur Ripstein (Toronto) Prof Scott Shapiro (Yale Law School) Prof Victor Tadros (Warwick) Previous members of the Advisory Board: Neil MacCormick + Joseph Raz + Cover art by Jane Couroussopoulos: www.janepaint.com