Following the 100th anniversary of Pashukanis' General Theory of Law and Marxism (1924), this volume aims to breathe new life into the main category of Pashukanian legacy, the 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. Subjectification through Normativity: Legal Form as a Modern Device Przemyslaw Tacik 2. The Politics of Abstraction. Property, Subjectivity, Legal Form Rosie Woodhouse 3. A Journey to the Center of the Legal Form: Kelsen's Ought as the Missing Piece to the Master-Signifier of the Legal Form Peter CuroS 4. Pashukanis avec Lacan : Towards the Fantasy of Legal Form Dennis Wassouf 5. On the Relative Autonomy of the Modern Form of Law: From Marx and Engels to Althusser Eduardo A. Chia 6. Struggle to See the Law: Legal Form Beyond the Object Totality Hedvig Lärka 7. From Critique of Abstraction to Speculative Legal Form Hugo Lundberg 8. Legal Form and the Anarchist Critique of the Law Christos Marneros 9. Law Beyond the Legal Form Tormod Johansen 10. The Withering Away of the Legal Form: Revisiting Past Debates for Future Movements Dimitrios Kivotidis