Table of Contents

Samantha Besson and Jose Luis Marti: Introduction: Law and Republicanism - Mapping the Issues
I. Republican Legal Theory
1: Philip Pettit: Law and Liberty
2: James Bohman: Cosmopolitan Republicanism and the Rule of Law
II. Republican Law
A. Republican Constitutional Law
3: Iseult Honohan: Republicans, Rights and the Constitutions: Is Judicial Review Compatible with Republican Self-Government
4: Richard Bellamy: The Republic of Reasons: Public Reasoning, Depoliticization, and Non-Domination
B. Republican Criminal Law
5: Jose Luis Marti: The Republican Democratization of Criminal Law and Justice
6: Richard Dagger: Republicanism and Crime
7: Roberto Gargarella: Tough On Punishment: Criminal Justice, Deliberation, and Legal Alienation
C. Republican International Law
8: Mortimer N.S. Sellers: The Republican Foundations of International Law
9: Samantha Besson: Ubi Ius, Ibi Civitas: A Republican Account of the International Community
10: Francis Cheneval: Multilateral Dimensions of Republican Thought
11: Cristina Lafont: Alternative Visions of a New Global Order: What Should Cosmopolitans Hope For?
III. National Republicanisms and the Law
12: Jean-Fabien Spitz: The 'défense républicane': Some Remarks about the Specificity of French Republicanism
13: Justine Lacroix and Paul Magnette: French Republicanism and the European Union
14: Adam Tomkins: On Republican Constitutionalism in the Age of Commerce: Reflections from the Scottish Enlightenment

About the Author

Samantha Besson is Professor of Public International Law and European Law at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland José Luis Martí is Associate Professor of Law at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona

Reviews

`Samantha Besson and Jose Luis Marti have produced an excellent state-of-the-art synthesis of contemporary republican theory, which amply illustrates the latter's depth, breath and vitality. They have assembled an impressive team of high-profile advocates of what they call 'legal republicanism', which they present not as a narrowly conceived theory of law but as a 'holistic approach to the political and legal organisation of a republic'. The book, therefore
will be of interest not only to legal theorists but also, more generally, to theorists of politics and political philosophers.'
Cecile Laborde, Transnational Legal Theory
`The volume encompasses both theoretical and more practical approaches and one of its virtues has to be seen in the mutual influence between these two aspects. While the reflection on republican theory may help to deepen our understanding of how institutions ought to work, the republican analysis of legal fields like international or constitutional law may help in defining how to put forward a republican legal theory'
Marco Goldoni, Jurisprudence