Der Sammelband enthält einen Teil der Verhandlungen des 17. Weltkongresses der International Association of Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR), der im Juni 1995 in Bologna stattfand. Inhalt: I. New Legal Cultures and Normative Structures in a Global Community: Percy Black: Babel of Cultures: Challenge to Law in the 1990's and Beyond (3-15); Robert D'Amico: Three Kinds of Argument in Modern Political Philosophy: The Example of Populism (17-26); James F. Doyle: Legal Accommodation of Social Diversity (27-32); Kevin T. Jackson: Sovereignty, Citizenship, and the Global Community: When Domestic Courts Adjudicate International Human Rights (33-71); Gerhard Sprenger: Collective Morality and the Legitimation of Law (73-84); Antonio Tarantino: Person, Nature of Institutions and Sovereignty (85-92). II. Rule of Law in National and International Communities: Erwin Bader: Theoretical Problems of Democracy and Law with Austria's Joining the EU (95-103); Uta U. Bindreiter: Motivating the Direct Applicability of Community Law (105-116); Anna N. Georgiadou: Nouvelles Formes de la Souveraineté et l'Union Européenne (117-127); Roberta Kevelson: Crises in International Law: Signs and Symptoms (129-145); Lech Morawski: The Rule of Law in the Welfare State (147-154). III. Law and Economics: Philippe Gérard: Fairness, Consent and Political Obligation (157-168); Peter Lewisch: Doorkeepers of Justice? The Legal Services of Judges and Lawyers in an Economic Perspective (169-179); William N. R. Lucy / Catherine Mitchell: The Case for Stewardship (181-191); Christian Schmidt: The Distinction Between "Public" and "Private". An Economic Perspective (193-213); Herbert Wagner: Some Observations to the Relation on Law and Economy (215-223); Ross Zucker: Democracy and Economic Justice (225-246). IV. Community Consensus and Individual Rights: Anne F. Bayefsky: Cultural Sovereignty, Relativism, and International Human Rights: New Excuses for Old Strategies (249-267); Gustavo Gozzi: Fundamental Rights and Democratic Constitution. Trends in the Contemporary Debate in the Federal Republic of Germany (269-283); Leszek Leszczyñski: Social Rights in Central and East European Constitutions: A Problem of Method of Regulation (285-294); Bente Puntervold Bø: Law and Asylum: The Use of Legal Means to Limit the Responsibility of the Nation State Towards Refugees (295-304); Rosemary C. Salomone: Individual Rights, Community Consensus, and National Goals: The Challenge for Education in a Pluralistic Society (305-320); Roman A. Tokarczyk: The Paradigm of Social Contract (321-335); Guodong Xo: Freedom of Migration and Difference Between City and Countryside - From the Point of View of Marxism (337-350). V. Conformity and Deviance in Legal Behaviour - Legal Change in Criminal Law: Mario A. Cattaneo: Punishment and Human Rights (353-359); Wesley Cragg: Mens Rea and its Twentieth Century Critics (361-375); Patrick J. Hurley: American Criminal Defense in the Next Millennium (377-384); Hendrik Kaptein: Jumping to Conclusions in Criminal Law. Facts, Offenses and the Logic of Loose Ends in Between (385-394); Vincent Luizzi: New Technologies, New Punishments, and New Thoughts About Punishment (395-404); Lorenz Schulz: Time and Law. How Life-World Acceleration Affects Imputation in Criminal Law (405-414).