The book develops the law of political economy as a new field of scholarly enquiry.

1. The law of political economy: an introduction Poul F. Kjaer; Part I. Studying the Law of Political Economy: 2. The legal proprium of the economic constitution Christian Joerges and Michelle Everson; 3. The myth of democratic governance Emilios Christodoulidis; 4. A political economy of contemporary legality Duncan Kennedy; Part II. Transformations of the Law of the Globalising Economy: 5. Law in global political economy: now you see it, now you don't David Kennedy; 6. Law of natural resource extraction and money as key to understanding global political economy and potential for its transformation Isabel Feichtner; 7. 'Social nature': political economy, science, and the law in the Anthropocene Jaye Ellis; Part III. The Transformation of the Law of Political Economy in Europe: 8. The transformative politics of European private law Hans-W. Micklitz; 9. Socio-economic imaginaries and European private law Marija Bartl; 10. The transformative socio-economic effects of EU competition law: from producerism to consumerism Jotte Mulder; 11. On the vanishing functional autonomy of European labour law (and some dangerous counter-movements) Stefano Giubboni; Part IV. Towards a New Law of Political Economy: 12. The future of law -'serial law'? Karl-Heinz Ladeur; 13. After governance? The idea of a private administrative law Rodrigo Vallejo; 14. The transnational dimension of constitutional rights: framing and taming 'private' governance beyond the state Lars Viellechner; 15. Counter-rights: on the trans-subjective potential of subjective rights Gunther Tuebner.