This book addresses the relevance of the state of exception for the analysis of law; whilst reflecting on the deeper symbolic and jurisprudential significance of the coalescence between law and force.

Dr Cosmin Cercel is Assistant Professor in Law at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Towards a Jurisprudence of State Communism: Law and the Failure of Revolution (Routledge: 2017).

Dr Gian-Giacomo Fusco is Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent.

Dr Simon Lavis is Lecturer in Law at the Open University.

Introduction Part 1 Law, theory and the logic of the exception 1. Exception, Fiction, Performativity (Gian Giacomo Fusco) 2. "Through a Glass, Darkly": Law, History and the Frontispiece of the Exception (Cosmin Cercel) 3. The Other Side of the Exception: Sovereignty, Modernity and International Law (Przemyslaw Tacik) 4. Minor Law: Notes Towards a Revolutionary Jurisprudence (Tormod Otter Johansen) 5. The Exception of the Norm in the Third Reich: Re(reading) the Nazi Constitutional State of Exception (Simon Lavis) Part 2 Histories of Exception 6. 'Norm' and 'Exception': From the Weimar Republic to the Nazi State Form (Dimitrios Kivotidis) 7. 'Our Fatherland Has Found Itself on the Verge of an Abyss':Poland's 1981 Martial Law, or the Unexpected Appearance of the State of Exception Under Actually Existing Socialism (Rafal Manko) 8. A State in Anomie: An Analysis of Modern Turkey's States of Exception (Ceylan Begüm Yildiz) 9. Beyond "the Most Serious Suspension of Rights" of Genoa: Violence, Anomie and Force (of Law) (Sara Raimondi) Afterword: Emergencies, Exceptions, Legalities (David Fraser)