Guillaume Tusseau is Professor of Public Law at Sciences Po Law School, and a member of the Institut universitaire de France. His main fields of interest are legal theory, constitutional law and comparative law.

This book features essays on Jeremy Bentham's major legal theoretical treatise, Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence. Gathering together an impressive array of legal scholars from around the world the book offers a chance to reassess Bentham's theories of law as well as his impact on jurisprudence. This volume offers a thorough guide to reading Bentham's legal theory giving a detailed account of Bentham's major contributions to the most important contemporary debates in jurisprudence.

Introduction, Guillaume Tusseau Part 1: A Manuscript's Odyssey 1. Constructing the Text: Jeremy Bentham's Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence, Philip Schofield Part 2: The Foundation of General Legal Theory (I): International looks at Limits 2. The Theory of the Legal Norm: Typology of Legal Beings, Rafael Hernández Marín 3. The Theory of the Legal order, Pierluigi Chiassoni 4. Bentham's Deontic Logic, José Juan Moreso 5. An Old English Tale? Bentham's Theory of The Force of a Law, Guillaume Tusseau 6. Of the Limits of the Civil Branch of Jurisprudence: Background, definitions and limits of Bentham's discussion on civil law in Limits, Anne Brunon-Ernst Part 3: The Foundation of General legal Theory(II): External looks at Limits 7. Bentham's Limits and Austin, Michael Lobban 8. Bentham's Command versus Hart's Authoritative Reason. An Examination of the Principal Interpretations of Bentham's Imperative Theory of Law in Hart's 'Commands and Authoritative Legal Reasons', Xiaobo Zhai 9. Bentham's Limits and Hohfeld, Andrew Halpin 10. A Commitment to Naturalism, Bentham and the Legal Realists, Francesca Poggi and Francesco Ferraro 11. Bentham and Kelsen, Michel van de Kerchove 12. Bentham's "Limits", Deontic Logic, and the Formal Representation of a Normative System, Lars Lindahl Part 4: Limits and the Architecture of Bentham's Project 13. Of the Limits and the Theory of Legislation, David Lieberman, James W. and Isabel Coffroth 14. Limits and Indirect Legislation, Stephen Engelmann 15. Towards the Pannomion: Limits and Bentham's French Manuscripts, Emmanuelle de Champs 16. Reducing Limits of the Realm of Possibilities: Law, Action and Will in Jeremy Bentham's Thought, Malik Bozzo-Rey 17. The Notion of Limit in Bentham's Theory of Fictions, Jean-Pierre Cléro 18. The Legislator's Tormented Soul: Utility as Practical Reason in Bentham's Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence, Denis Baranger