Legality today commands substantial currency in world affairs, and this volume examines the struggle over its meaning in diverse practices.

Table of figures; Foreword Martti Koskenniemi; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: legality, interdisciplinarity, and the study of practices Nikolas M. Rajkovic, Tanja E. Aalberts and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen; Part I. Scholarly Struggles over Legality: 2. Re-thinking inter-disciplinarity by re-reading Hume Friedrich Kratochwil; 3. Tainted love: the struggle over legality in international relations and international law Anna Leander and Wouter Werner; 4. The power of legality, legitimacy and the (im)possibility of interdisciplinary research Filipe dos Reis and Oliver Kessler; 5. Moving while standing still: law, politics and hard cases Ciaran Burke; Part II. Legality and Institutional Practices: 6. International law, Kelsen and the aberrant revolution: excavating the politics and practices of revolutionary legality in Rhodesia and beyond Vidya Kumar; 7. Juris Dicere: custom as a matrix, custom as a norm, the role of judges and (their) ideology in custom making Vassilis P. Tzevelekos; 8. Multiple legalities and international criminal tribunals: juridical versus political legality Bas Schotel; 9. Palestine's quest for statehood and the practice of the United Nations Cathleen H. Powell and Jonathan Strug; Part III. Legality and Policy Practices: 10. Regulatory legality: extraterritorial rule across domestic and international arenas Michael L. Buenger; 11. Legality and lawfare in regime implementation Surabhi Ranganathan; 12. Whose legality? Rule of law missions and the case of Kosovo Maj Grasten; Epilogue: re-thinking legality and practices of interdisciplinarity; 13. Perspectives on the perils, promise, politics - and practice - of interdisciplinarity Jeffrey L. Dunoff.