Laurent de Sutter is FWO Senior Researcher in Legal Theory at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels. He is also Lecturer in Legal Theory at Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis and Visiting Teacher at Cardozo Law School.

Althusser & Law is the first book specifically dedicated to the place of law in Louis Althusser's philosophy.

Introduction, Laurent de Sutter; 1. The Threat of the Outside: Althusser's Reflections on Law, Warren Montag; 2.Althusser on Laws Natural and Juridical, William S. Lewis; 3. Monarchy, Despotism, and Althusser's 'Linguistic Trick': Materialist Reflections on the Literary Reproduction of Montesquieu's 'Fundamental Law', David McInerney; 4. Althusser's Paradoxical Legel Exceptionalism as a Materialist Critique of Schmitt's Decisionism, Juan Domingo Sánchez Estop; 5.Prohibitionary Law as Apparatus of Subjectivation: Butler's The Psychic Life of Power and Althusser, Yoshiyuki Sato; 6.Althusser in Avatar: Comparative Law as a Science and the Haunting of the Subject, David Marrani; 7. Re-reading Capital: Notes towards an Investigation of Law, Politics and Pensions, Adam Gearey; 8.The Althusser Fact: For Madness Creates no Right - On the Secularization of Law, Dimitra Panopoulos; 9.Aleatory Materialism and Speculative Jurisprudence (II): For a New Logic of Right, Kyle McGee