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

• 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

Interest in republicanism as a political theory has burgeoned in recent years, but its implications for the understanding of law have remained largely unexplored. Legal Republicanism is the first book to offer a comprehensive, critical survey of the potential for creating republican accounts of fundamental issues in law and legal theory.