Boaventura de Sousa Santos has written and published widely in Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian, French, German, Chinese, Danish, Romanian and Polish. His current research interests are epistemology, sociology of law, post-colonial theory, democracy, interculturality, globalization, social movements and human rights. Recent publications include The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South (2018).

Preface to the Third Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; 1.The Tension between Regulation and Emancipation in Western Modernity and Its Demise; 2. Toward an Oppositional Postmodern Understanding of Law; 3. Legal Plurality and the Time-Spaces of Law: The Local, the National, and the Global; 4. The Law of the Oppressed: The Construction and Reproduction of Legality in Pasargada; 5. Globalization, Nation-States, and the Legal Field: From Legal Diaspora to Legal Ecumenism?; 6. Law and Democracy: The Global Reform of Courts; 7. On Modes of Production of Social Law and Social Power; 8. Law: A Map of Misreading; 9. Can Law Be Emancipatory?; Postface as Disquietude.