A century after the publication of Evgeny Pashukanis's pivotal book General Theory of Law and Marxism, this collection presents a comprehensive account and analysis of his key concept of legal form.
Cosmin Cercel is Professor of Legal History at Ghent University, Belgium.
Gian-Giacomo Fusco is Lecturer in Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent, UK.
Przemyslaw Tacik is Assistant Professor at the Institute of European Studies at the Jagiellonian University of Kraków, Poland.
1. What Was Pashukanis Seeking to Do With His Concept of 'Legal Form', and Does It Have Continuing Relevance? Bill Bowring 2. Legal Form in the Soviet Dictatorship: Evgeny Pashukanis and His Interlocutors Anna Lukina 3. On the Lithuanian Question: Contextualising Pashukanis' Critique of the Legal Form Eric Loefflad 4. PaSukanis on Ideology and The Juridical (A Note on The General Theory of Law And Marxism) Rafal Manko 5. Fetishes of Criminal Law: Reading Pashukanis with Hegel and de Lagasnerie Linda Lilith Obermayr 6. Legal Subjectivity and Abstraction: Tracing the Past of the Legal Form Gian-Giacomo Fusco 7. Exchange or Production? Poulantzas on Pashukanis and the Legal Form Daniel McLoughlin 8. Impossible Objects of Marxist Legal Theory of Law: The Limits of the Legal Form Cosmin Cercel Appendix: Hegel. State and Law (On the Centenary of his Death) Evgeny Bronislavovich Pashukanis