Main Publications:
Inside and Outside Global Law, the Julius Stone Address 2018, in the Sydney Law Review, 41 (2019) 1, 1-34.
Authority and the Globalisation of Inclusion and Exclusion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). A Spanish translation, La autoridad y la globalización de la inclusión y la exclusión, is forthcoming (Barcelona/Bogotá: Editorial HerderEditorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana: 2021). A Portuguese translation, A autoridade e a globalização da inclusão e da exclusão, is forthcoming (São Paolo: Editora Contracorrente, 2022).
Special sections have been published in:
Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law, 29 (2019) 3, with comments by Paul S. Berman, Ralf Michaels, Nicole Roughan, and Alexander Somek, with a reply to critics by the author.
Ethics & Politics, 21 (2019) 3, edited by Ferdinando Menga, with comments by Alessandro Ferrara, Thomas Fossen, David Owen, Markus Patberg, and Gianfrancesco Zanetti, with a reply to critics by the author. A follow-up exchange between Alessandro Ferrara and the author was published in Ethics & Politics, 22 (2020) 2, and edited by Ferdinando Menga.
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 27 (2020) 2, with comments by Christine Bell, Friedrich Kratochwil, Hans Micklitz, Bert van Roermund, and Carlos Thiebaut, with a reply to critics by the author.
Possibility, Actuality, Rupture: Constituent Power and the Ontology of Change, in Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory 22 (2015) 2, 163-174.
Fault Lines of Globalization: Legal Order and the Politics of A-Legality (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
Ethics & Politics: A Review of Philosophy, a symposium on Fault Lines of Globalization, edited by Ferdinando Menga, with contributions by Emilios Christodoulidis, Fabio Ciaramelli, Martin Loughlin Sofia Näsström, Stefan Rummens, and Neil Walker, together with a reply to critics by the author. (Vol. XVI, No. 2, 2014)
Contemporary Political Theory, a critical exchange on Fault Lines of Globalization in December, 2015, with an introduction by Andrew Schaap, comments by David Owen and James Ingram (McMaster), together with a reply to critics by the author.
Jurisprudence, a symposium on Fault Lines of Globalization in 2016, vol. 7, issue 2, with contributions by Massimo La Torre, Emmanuel Melissaris, Panu Minkkinen, and Scott Veitch, together with a reply to critics by the author.
Linee di frattura della globalizzazione. Ordinamento giuridico e politica dell’a-legalità, translated with a critical study by Ferdinando Menga (Milano: Mimesis Edizione, 2017).
Fallas de la globalización. Ordenamiento jurídico y la política de la a-juridicidad, translated by Jorge Restrepo Ramos (Bogotá: Editorial Siglo del Hombre/Editorial Universidad del Rosario, 2018).
A Japanese translation will be published by Fokosha in 2023.
A-legality: Postnationalism and the Question of Legal Boundaries, in Modern Law Review 73 (2010) 1, 30-56.
Breaking Promises to Keep Them: Immigration and the Boundaries of Distributive Justice, in Hans Lindahl (ed.), A Right to Inclusion and Exclusion? Normative Fault Lines of the EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (Oxford: Hart Publishers, 2009), 137-159.
Collective Self-Legislation as an Actus Impurus: A Response to Heidegger’s Critique of European Nihilism. In Continental Philosophy Review, 3 (2008), 323-342.
The Paradox of Constituent Power: The Ambiguous Self-Constitution of the European Union, in Ratio Juris. An International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, 20 (2007) 4, 485-505.
Give and Take: Arendt and the Nomos of Political Community, in Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 32 (2006) 7, 881-901.
Finding a Place for Freedom, Security and Justice: The European Unity and its Claim to Territorial Unity, European Law Review 29 (2004), 461-484.
Dialectic and Revolution: Confronting Kelsen and Gadamer on Legal Interpretation, in Cardozo Law Review, 24 (2003) 2, 769-798.
Sovereignty and the Institutionalization of Normative Order, in Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 21 (2001) 1, 165-180.
Authority and Representation, in Law and Philosophy. An International Journal for Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy 19 (2000) 2, 223-246.
The Purposiveness of Law: Two Concepts of Representation in the European Union, in Law and Philosophy. An International Journal for Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy 17 (1998) 5-6, 481-507.
Democracy and the Symbolic Constitution of Society, in Ratio Juris. An International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, 11 (1998) 1, 12-37.
Other Publications
Place-Holding the Future: Legal Ordering and Intergenerational Justice for More-Than-Human Collectives, forthcoming in Elisabeth Gräb-Schmidt and Ferdinando G. Menga (eds.), Rethinking Responsibility (Tübingen: Mohr, 2023).
Conflict of Laws: Asymmetrical Recognition of the Stranger (in Ourselves), forthcoming in Ralf Michaels, Michael Green, and Roxanna Banu (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of Private International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023).
Enduring Contingency: Remarks on Liberal Democratic Law, forthcoming in Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 1 (2023).
A Theory of Global Law and its Fault Lines: Japanese Scholars in Dialogue with Hans Lindahl, with Takao Suami and Keisuke Kondo, forthcoming in Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy, 2 (2022).
Autoridad y la globalización de la inclusión y exclusión, translated by Jorge Restrepo, forthcoming in (Barcelona: Herder, 2022).
A autoridade e a globalização da inclusão e exclusão, translated by Ricardo Spindola and revised by Carolina Stange Moulin, forthcoming in (São Paolo: Editora Contracorrente, 2022).
Place-Holding the Future: Legal Ordering and Intergenerational Justice for More-Than-Human Collectives, in Rivista di filosofia del diritto / Journal of Legal Philosophy 10 (2021) 2, 313-330.
Law and (Dis)empowerment: On Ricœur’s Phenomenology of Judging, forthcoming in Marc de Leeuw (ed.), Reading Ricœur Through Law (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021).
Dialéctica e revolução: confrontando Kelsen e Gadamer quanto a interpretação, in Direito & Praxis 11 (2020) 4, 2849-2885, translation of “Dialectic and Revolution: confronting Kelsen and Gadamer on legal interpretation,” translated by Ricardo Spindola.
La representación y depresentación del pueblo soberano, in Emilios Christodoulidis & Pablo Marshal (ed.), Teoría crítica constitucional: Discusiones sobre derecho y política (Valencia: Editorial Tirant lo Blanch, 2020), 57-65.
Collective Action and Emergent Global Legal Orders, in Jorge Fabra Zambrano (ed.), Jurisprudence in a Globalized World (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2020), 128-154.
Intentionality, Representation, Recognition: Phenomenology and the Politics of A-Legality, in Thomas Bedorf and Steffen Herrmann (eds.), Political Phenomenology. Experience, Ontology, Episteme (Abingdon: Routledge, 2019), 256-276.
A-legalità, Autorità, Riconoscimento. Riconfigurazioni giuridiche nell’epoca della globalizzazione, in the book series Bibliotheca, translation by Ferdinando Menga (Turin: G. Giappichelli Editore, 2019).
The Rome Statute: Global Justice and the Asymmetries of Recognition, in the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 25 (2018) 2, 671-700.
One Pillar: Legal Authority and a Social License to Operate in a Global Context, in Daniel Augenstein and Hans Lindahl (eds.), Symposium on “Global Human Rights and the Boundaries of Statehood,” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 23 (2016) 1, 201-224.
Constituent Power and the Constitution, in David Dyzenhaus and Malcolm Thorburn (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of Constitutional Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), 141-160.
A Book Review of Stuart Elden, The Birth of Territory, in Political Theory, 44 (2016) 1, 144-146.
Constitutionalism and the Recognition of A-Legality, in Fabio Ciaramelli and Ferdinando Menga (eds.), L’epoca dei populismi. Diritti e Conflitti/The Age of Populism. Rights and Conflicts, special issue of Teoria e critica della regolazione sociale, 2 (2015), 46-67.
ISO Standards and Authoritative Collective Action: Conceptual and Normative Issues, in Panos Delimatsis (ed.), The Law, Economics and Politics of International Standardisation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 42-57.
Law as Concrete Order: Schmitt and the Problem of Collective Freedom, in David Dyzenhaus and Thomas Poole (eds.), Law, Liberty and the State: Oakeshott, Hayek and Schmitt on the Rule of Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 38-64.
Globalizzazione e frontiere: Intervista, in Luigi Mariano Guzzo and Rosaria Mastroianni Ianni, Universitá Magna Graecia News, 12 (2015), 38-40.
The Political Fragmentation of Constitutionalism. A review of Gunther Teubner’s Constitutional Fragments, in Jurisprudence, 6 (2015) 1, 177-181.
Reciprocity and the Normativity of Legal Orders, Hans Lindahl and Bart van Klink (eds.), special issue of the Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy, 2014 (2).
We and Cyberlaw: The Spatial Unity of Legal Orders, in Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 20 (2013) 2, 697-730.
To Each Their Own Place? Immigration, Justice, and Political Reflexivity, in L. Foisneau L, Ch. Hiebaum & J.C. Velasco, J.C. (eds.), Open Democracies (Springer, Dordrecht, 2013), 317-328.
Legal Order and the Globality of Global Law, in Tilburg Law Review, 17 (2012) 2, 168-176.
Societal constitutionalism as political constitutionalism: Reconsidering the relation between politics and global legal orders, in Social and Legal Studies, 20 (2011) 2, 230-237.
Boundaries and the concept of legal order, in Jurisprudence: an international journal of legal and political thought, 2 (2011) 1, 73-97.
A-Legalità: Il postnazionalismo e il problema dei confini legali, in Sociologia e politiche sociali, 14 (2011) 2, 49-78.
Boundaries of legal orders in a postnational setting: Conceptual, normative and institutional issues. In S. Muller, S. Zouridis, M. Frishman, & L. Kistemaker (eds.), The law of the future and the future of law (Oslo: Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, 2011), 355-366.
A-legality: Postnationalism and the question of legal boundaries. In R. Tinnevelt & H. de Schutter (Eds.), Global democracy and exclusion (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), 117-194 (reprint of MLR article).
Recognition as Domination: Constitutionalism, Reciprocity and the Problem of Singularity, in Neil Walker, Stephen Tierney and Jo Shaw (eds.), Europe’s Constitutional Mosaic (Oxford: Hart Publishers, 2011), 205-230.
Europäische Integration: Drei Lesarten des Problems der Beziehung, in Philosophische Rundschau: Eine Vierteljahresschrift für philosophische Kritik, 56 (2009) 3, 241-256.
Introduction: A Circularity and its Ramifications, in Hans Lindahl (ed.), A Right to Inclusion and Exclusion? Normative Fault Lines of the EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (Oxford: Hart Publishers, 2009), 1-12.
Philip Pettit and the incorporation of responsibility: Legal, political and ethical perspectives, Hans Lindahl & Eric Claes (eds.), special issue of the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Rechtsfilosofie en Rechtstheorie, 38 (2009) 2. ).
The Opening: Alegality and Political Agonism, in Andrew Schaap (ed.), Law and Agonistic Politics (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009).
In Between: Immigration, Distributive Justice, and Political Dialogue, in Contemporary Political Theory 8 (2009) 4, 425-434. The article appeared in truncated form in the CPT. Click here for the complete text.
Border Crossings by Immigrants: Legality, Illegality and Alegality, in Res Publica 14 (2008) 2, 117-135.
Democratie als heteronome autonomie?, in Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Rechtsfilosofie en Rechtstheorie, 37 (2008) 1, 3-12.
The anomos of the earth: Political indexicality, immigration and distributive justice, in Ethics and global politics, 1 (2008), 193-212.
On Normal and Exceptional Politics: In Discussion with Bonnie Honig, Sanne Taekema and Hans Lindahl (eds.), special issue of Rechtsfilosofie & Rechtstheorie, 37 (2008), 2.
Law’s ‘Uncanniness’: A phenomenology of legal decisions, in Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Rechtsfilosofie en Rechtstheorie, 38 (2008), 137-150.
Democracy, Political Reflexivity and Bounded Dialogues: Reconsidering the Monism-Pluralism Debate, in Emilios Christodoulidis & Stephen Tierney (eds.), Public Law and Politics (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), 103-116.
Discretion and Public Policy: Timing the Unity and Diversity of Legal Orders, in Sacha Prechal & Bert van Roermund (eds.), Binding Unity and Divergent Concepts in the European Union (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 291-314.
Constituent Power and Reflexive Identity: Towards an Ontology of Collective Selfhood, in Martin Loughlin & Neil Walker (eds.), The Paradox of Constitutionalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 9-24.
Immigration, Political Indexicality and a Politics of Indexicality. TCRS: Teoria e Criti-ca della Regolazione Sociale, 2 (2007) 1, 1-21.
Europe as Heimwelt and as Fremdwelt: Constituent Power and the Genesis of Legal Order, in Ethical Perspectives: Journal of the European Ethics Network, 13 (2006) 3, 497-523.
Zelfregulering: rechtsvorming, democratie en reflexieve identiteit, in Rechtsgeleerd Magazijn Themis, 167 (2006) 2, 39-48.
Sovereignty and Symbolization, in Neil Walker (ed.), Relocating Sovereignty (Dartmouth: Ashgate, 2006), 53-77.
Privaatrecht is publiekrecht: Vranken en de privatisering van het burgerlijk recht. Nederlands Juristenblad, 80 (2005) 36, 1892-1893.
Jus includendi et excludendi: Europe and the Borders of Freedom, Security and Justice. King’s College Law Journal, 16 (2005) 1, 234-247.
El caso Van Gend & Loos: la dialéctica de poder constituyente y poder constituído, in Rodolfo Vázquez (ed.), Filosofía jurídica: Ensayos en homenaje a Ulises Schmill (México, D.F.: Editorial Porrúa, 2005), 227-250.
Globalization and the Politics of Boundaries, in Jean-Christoph Merle (ed.), Global Justice: Proceedings of the Euroconference on the Ethics of International Particular Agreements and Negotiations (Stuttgart-Bad-Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzbog, 2005), 21-37.
Inside and Outside the EU’s ‘Area of Freedom, Security and Justice’: Reflexive Identity and the Unity of Legal Space, in Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, 90 (2004) 4, 478-497.
Finding Place for Freedom, Security and Justice: The European Union’s Claim to Territorial Unity, in ConWEB – Webpapers on Constitutionalism and Governance Beyond the State (ISSN: 1756-7556), available here.
Acquiring a Community: The Acquis and the Institution of European Legal Order, in European Law Journal 9 (2003) 4, 433-450.
Sovereignty and Representation in the European Union, in Neil Walker (ed.), Sovereignty in Transition (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2003), 87-114.
Gadamer, Kelsen and the Limits of Legal Interpretation, in Phänomenologische Forschungen, 2002 (1), 27-49.
Hoe vreemd is de vreemdeling voor het recht?, in Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Rechtsfilosofie en Rechtstheorie, 31 (2002) 2, 33-57.
Rechtsvorming als politieke representatie: de kwestie van constitutionele toetsing, in E.-J. Broers & B. van Klink (eds.), De rechter als rechtsvormer (Den Haag, Boom Juridische Uitgevers, 2001), 173-196.
Communicatieve wetgeving en volkssoevereiniteit, in B. van Klink & W. Witteveen (eds.) De overtuigende wetgever (Deventer: Tjeenk Willink, 2000), 173-188.
Is er een plaats voor het referendum in de representatieve democratie? (co-authored by B. van Roermund), in Openbaar bestuur. Tijdschrift voor Beleid, Organisatie & Politiek, 10 (2000) 1, 26-29.
European Integration: Popular Sovereignty and a Politics of Boundaries, in European Law Journal 6 (2000) 3, 239-256.
Law Without a State? On Representing the Common Market (co-authored by Bert van Roermund), in Z. Bankowski & A. Scott (eds.) The European Union and its Order: The Legal Theory of European Integration (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2000), 1-16.
De Staten-Generaal vertegenwoordigen het gehele Nederlandse volk, in Nederlandse Tijdschrift voor Rechtsfilosofie en Rechtstheorie, 28 (1999) 1, 8-29.
Macht en rationaliteit: Blumenberg en de legitimiteit van de moderne tijd, in Wijsgerig Perspectief 38 (1997) 1, 10-16.
Sovereignty and Symbolization, in Rechtstheorie. Zeitschrift für Logik, Methodenlehre, Kybernetik und Soziologie des Rechts 28 (1997) 3, 347-371.
Vorst op God na. Politieke macht en de symbolisering van soevereiniteit, in Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Rechtsfilosofie en Rechtstheorie, 26 (1997) 2, 122-136.
Law and Cartesianism, in E. van Leeuwen, B. van Roermund & F. Fleraeckers (eds.) Law, Life and the Images of Man. Modes of Thought in Modern Legal Theory (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1996), 139-168.
El pueblo soberano: el régimen simbólico del poder político en la democracia, in Revista de estudios políticos (Madrid), 94 (1996), 47-72.
La política de la razón (in)suficiente, in Ideas y valores. Revista colombiana de filosofía 101 (1996), 24-41.
Ocho tesis acerca de la democracia y los derechos humanos, in La Ley (Buenos Aires), 247 (1996), 2-4.
Welfare and Enlightenment. An Enquiry into the Rational Foundations of the Welfare State (Louvain: Leuven University Press, 1995), Louvain Philosophical Series, vol. 9.
The Politics of Enlightenment: A Principle of Insufficient Reason?, in Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, 87 (1995) 3, 121-141.
La materialización de la naturaleza en la razón moderna, in Universitas, Bogotá, 88 (1995), 151-164.
Retórica, política y razón práctica, in Universitas Philosophica, Bogotá, 7 (1986), 77-101.
La intencionalidad jurídica,” in Universitas Philosophica, Bogotá, 3 (1984), 75-85.