What does 'think like a lawyer' mean in times of legal crisis? Thirty leading scholars discuss contemporary legal thought.

Introduction: searching for contemporary legal thought: history, image and structure Justin Desautels-Stein and Christopher Tomlins; Part I. Histories of the Legal Contemporary: 1. Of origin: toward a history of contemporary legal thought Christopher Tomlins; 2. Who are we? Persona, office, suspicion and critique Peter Goodrich; 3. On the hinges of history: for a relational legal historiography Maks Del Mar; 4. Contemporary legal genealogies Ben Golder; 5. Legal theory among the ruins Samuel Moyn; 6. Institutional conditions of contemporary legal thought Paulo Barrozo; 7. 'Legal theory', strategies of learned production, and the relatively weak autonomy of the subfield of learned law Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth; 8. Law and language as information systems: perish the thought! Marianne Constable; 9. Our geological contemporary Alain Pottage; Part II. Images of the Legal Contemporary?: 10. International law as 'global governance' Martti Koskenniemi; 11. Recasting labor standards for the contemporary: international versus transnational frameworks at the ILO Leila Kawar; 12. An effective and affective history of colonial law Judith Surkis; 13. A cultural reluctance to rights Louis Assier-Andrieu; 14. The scene of nature Denise Ferreira da Silva; 15. Registering interests: modern methods of valuing labor, land and life Brenna Bhandar; 16. Market anti-naturalisms Andrew Lang; 17. Neoliberalism and the new international economic order: a history of 'contemporary legal thought' Umut Özsu; 18. ... and law? John Henry Schlegel; Part III: Structures of the Legal Contemporary: 19. A social psychological interpretation of the hermeneutic of suspicion in contemporary American legal thought Duncan Kennedy; 20. Office and persona of the critical jurist: peripheral legal thought (Australia) Shaun McVeigh; 21. Zombie jurisprudence Omri Ben-Zvi; 22. The knowledge bubble: a diagnostic for expertopia Pierre Schlag; 23. ADR and some thoughts on 'the social' in contemporary legal thought Amy J. Cohen; 24. Complexity and reconstruction as contemporary legal thought: law-conflict interactions and judicial work Michal Alberstein; 25. Democratic experimentalism Charles F. Sabel and William H. Simon; 26. Legal amateurism Annelise Riles; 27. After the end of legal thought Justin Desautels-Stein; Afterword; Contemporary legal thought as ... Justin Desautels-Stein and Christopher Tomlins.