Analyzes the dialectic between legal and constitutional innovations which enhance the power of capital, and the alternatives to create a more just world order.

1. New constitutionalism and world order: general introduction Stephen Gill and A. Claire Cutler; Part I. Concepts: 2. Market civilization, new constitutionalism and world order Stephen Gill; 3. New constitutionalism and the commodity form of global capitalism A. Claire Cutler; 4. The rule of law as the grundnorm of the new constitutionalism Christopher May; Part II. Genealogy, Origins and World Order: 5. Toward a genealogy of the new constitutionalism: the empire of liberty and domination Tim Di Muzio; 6. The origins of the new constitutionalism: lessons from the 'old' constitutionalism Ran Hirschl; Part III. Multilevel Governance and Neo-liberalization: 7. When the global inhabits the national: fuzzy interactions Saskia Sassen; 8. New constitutionalism and variegated neo-liberalization Neil Brenner, Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore; 9. New constitutionalism and multilevel governance Adam Harmes; Part IV. Trade, Investment and Taxation: 10. How to govern differently: neo-liberalism, new constitutionalism and international investment law David Schneiderman; 11. Trade agreements, the new constitutionalism and public services Scott Sinclair; 12. New constitutionalism, international taxation and crisis Dries Lesage, Mattias Vermeiren and Sacha Dierckx; Part V. Social Reproduction, Welfare and Ecology: 13. Social reproduction, fiscal space and remaking the real constitution Isabella Bakker; 14. New constitutionalism, disciplinary neo-liberalism and the locking in of indebtedness in America Adrienne Roberts; 15. New constitutionalism, neo-liberalism and social policy Janine Brodie; 16. New constitutionalism and the environment: a quest for global law Hilal Elver; Part VI. Globalization from Below and Prospects for a Just New Constitutionalism: 17. Constitutionalism as critical project: the epistemological challenge to politics Gavin W. Anderson; 18. New constitutionalism and geopolitics: notes on legality and legitimacy and prospects for a just new constitutionalism Richard Falk.