Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1. Imbalance in Analytical Legal Theory's Approach to Prima Facie Legal Phenomena

1.2. New Phenomena

1.2.1. Intra-State Legality
1.2.2. Trans-State Legality
1.2.3. Supra-State Legality
1.2.4. Super-State Legality: Claims to Universality in Peremptory Jus Cogens Norms

1.3. State-Based Legal Theory

1.4. Re-Balancing After Imbalance: An Incremental Addition to Analytical Legal Theory

Chapter 2. Legal Officials, the Rule of Recognition, and International Law

2.1. Structure and Function of the Rule of Recognition

2.2. Explaining Officials' Contribution to the Rule of Recognition: Facing Circularity and Indeterminacy

2.2.1. Officials by Office and Attitude
2.2.2. Speculative Social Anthropological Accounts

2.3. Hierarchy in the Rule of Recognition

2.4. The Rule of Recognition and International Law

2.4.1. Not a System but a Set
2.4.2. International Rules of Change and Adjudication
2.4.3. International Legal Officials?
2.4.4. Kelsen's Account of International Law

Chapter 3. The Hierarchical View of Legal System and Non-State Legality

3.1. Raz's Structural Account of Legality

3.2. Functional Assessment of Raz's Account of Legality

3.2.1. Indeterminacy at the Borders
3.2.2. Parochialism

3.3. State-Centred Hierarchy

3.4. Non-State Legality

3.4.1. Hierarchy and the European Union
3.4.2. Trans-State Legality Revisited

Chapter 4. Meta-Theoretical-Evaluative Motivations

4. 1. Perspective, Phenomena, Problems, and Method

4.1.1 The Ordinary Person's Perspective and a Contingent Concept
4.1.2. Bootstrapping in Analytical Legal Theory

4. 2. Recent Approaches to the Problem of Perspective

4.2.1. System and Set
4.2.2. Network Theory
4.2.3. International Relations Theory

4. 3. Renewed Perspective
Chapter 5. An Inter-Institutional Theory

5.1. Elements of Legality

5.1.1. Content-Independent Reasons for Action
5.1.2. Legal Normative Powers
5.1.3. Institutions of Law
5.1.4. Legal Institutions
5.1.5. Mutual Reference and Intensity

5.2. The Systemic Law-State

5.2.1. Minimum Content of Natural Law
5.2.2. Comprehensiveness, Supremacy, and Openness
5.2.3. System

5.3. The Narrative Concept of Law and the Problems of Circularity and Indeterminacy

Chapter 6: An Inter-Institutional Account of Non-State Legality

6.1. Meta-Theory Revisited: Between Legal Pluralism and Geo-Centric Statism

6.2. Meeting the Explanatory Challenge: Bringing Elements of Legality to Bear on Explanatory Problems Beyond the Systemic Law-State

6.2.1. Intra-State Legality
6.2.2. Trans-State Legality
6.2.3. Supra-State Legality
6.2.4. Super-State Legality

Chapter 7. Fresh Problems

7.1. Pathologies of Legality

7.2. Novel Technologies and their Implications for Conceptions of Legality

7.3. Re-balance after Imbalance: the Consequences of Re-socializing a Descriptive-Explanatory View of Law

Index