ABSTRACT

This volume addresses the relationship between law and neoliberalism. Assembling work from established and emerging legal scholars, political theorists, philosophers, historians, and sociologists from around the world – including the Americas, Australia, Europe, and the United Kingdom – it addresses the conceptual, legal, and political relationships between liberal legality and neoliberal economics. More specifically, the book analyses the role that legality plays in the dominant economic force of our time, offering both a legal corrective to scholarship in economics and political economy that has paid insufficient attention to legal ideas, and, at the same time, a political economic corrective to legal scholarship that has only recently turned to theorizing neoliberalism. It will be of enormous interest to those working at the intersection of law and politics in our neoliberal age.

part I|67 pages

The law and legality of neoliberalism

chapter 1|27 pages

Transformations of the rule of law

Legal, liberal, and neo-

chapter 3|19 pages

Foucault and Becker

A biopolitical approach to human capital and the stability of preferences

part II|51 pages

Constituting neoliberalism

chapter 4|13 pages

Constructing ‘privatopia’

The role of constitutional law in Chile’s radical neoliberal experiment

chapter 6|18 pages

Neoliberalism as legalism

International economic law and the rise of the judiciary

part III|82 pages

Human rights and neoliberalism