Contents: Series preface; Introduction: Marx's legacy; Part I Principal Themes in Marx's Analysis of Law: The metaphysics of law: an essay on the very young Marx, Donald R. Kelly; Marxist perspectives in the sociology of law, Steven Spitzer; Marx and law, Andrew Vincent. Part II Marx's Work and Key Concepts in Legal Theory: The Form and Functions of Law: Selected extracts from The Institutions of Private Law and Their Social Functions, Karl Renner; Commodity form and legal form: an essay on the 'relative autonomy' of law, Isaac D. Balbus. Ideology: The ideology of law: advances and problems in recent applications of the concept of ideology to the analysis of law, Alan Hunt; On recent Marxist theories of law and the state and juridico-political ideology, Bob Jessop. Justice: The concept of justice in Marx, Engels, and others, William Leon McBride; Facts, values and Marxism, Susan M. Easton; Marx and justice, James Daly. Rights: The problem with Marx on rights, Stephen A.

Brown; Retrieving Marx for the human rights project, Brad R. Roth. Crime and Punishment: Marx and Engels on law, crime and morality, Paul Q. Hirst; Correspondence: radical deviancy theory and Marxism. A reply to Taylor and Walton, Paul Q. Hirst; Toward a political economy of crime, William J. Chambliss; Marxism and retribution, Jeffrie G. Murphy.

International Law: Marxism and international law: a contemporary analysis, B.S. Chimni; The commodity-form theory of international law: an introduction, China Miéville. Part III Socialist Reconstruction: The general theory of law and Marxism, Evgeny B. Pashukanis; Commodity and the subject, Evgeny B. Pashukanis; The 'withering away' of law, Christine Sypnowich. Part IV Marx and Law: Future Directions: Marxism after Communism, Michael Burawoy; Marxism and the continuing irrelevance of normative theory, Brian Leiter; Index.