First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Part One Law, Violence and Justice; Chapter 1 Force of Law: The "Mystical Foundation of Authority", Jacques Derrida; Chapter 2 The Philosophy of the Limit: Systems Theory and Feminist Legal Reform, Drucilla Cornell; Part Two Deconstruction and Legal Interpretation; Chapter 3 The Idolatry of Rules: Writing Law According to Moses, With Reference to Other Jurisprudences, Arthur J. Jacobson; Chapter 4 Deconstruction and Legal Interpretation: Conflict, Indeterminacy and the Temptations of the New Legal Formalism, Michel Rosenfeld; Chapter 5 Judgment After the Fall, Barbara Herrnstein Smith; Chapter 6 In the Name of the Law, Samuel Weber; Chapter 7 Forms, Charles M. Yablon; Part Three Comparative Perspectives on Justice, Law and Politics; Chapter 8 On the Margins of Microeconomics, David Gray Carlson; Chapter 9 Hermeneutics and the Rule of Law, Fred Dallmayr; Chapter 10 Laying Down the Law in Literature: The Example of Kleist, J Hillis Miller; Chapter 11 Statistical Stigmata, Henry Louis Gates; Chapter 12 Rights, Modernity, Democracy, Agnes Heller; Chapter 13 Algorithmic Justice, Alan Wolfe; Chapter 14 Conditions of Evil, Reiner Schürmann, Ian Janssen;