Im Gegensatz zu den ersten drei Bänden gibt es keinen thematischen Schwerpunkt; im Vordergrund steht die "skandinavische Perspektive" der Autoren. Inhalt: I. Views from the North: Hans Petter Graver: Law, Justice and the State: Nordic Perspectives (23-27); Jacob Dahl Rendtorff: The Danish Welfare State: Philosophical Ideals and Symetric Reality (28-34); Sigrídur Þorgeisdóttir: Feminist Ethnics and Feminist Politics (35-40); Küllike Lengi: The Situation of Human Rights in Estonia (41-48); Einar Pálsson: Pythagoras and Early Icelandic Law (49-59). II. Law, Discourse and Rationality: Mats Flodin: Internal and External Rationality of Legal Systems (60-65); Logi Guannarsson: A Discourse About Discourse (66-83); Hjördís Hákonardóttir: Legal Language: A Tool of Justice (84-90), Ghita Holmstöm-Hintikka: On the Use of Expert Witness in Legal Reasoning and Inquiry (91-105). III. Law, State and Nation: Ágúst H. IngÞórsson: Democracy, Bureaucracy and the Marginalization of the State (106-117); Aleksander Peczenik: Law-State, Legal Certainty and Legitimacy of Law (118-123); Ove K. Pedersen / Sverre Raffnsøe: Reorganizing Society (124-139); Juha Räikkä: Mill on National Sentiment (140-141); Páll Skúlason: Concepts of the State and Classes of Value (142-146); Britt-Mari Blegvad: How to Cope with Uncertainty: Trust and Law (147-162); Jon Wetlesen: Animal Rights or Human Duties? (163-173).