Contents: Introduction: the laws of Michel Foucault; Part I Epistemologies: Archaeology, Discourse, Orientalism: Women's Resolution of Lawes Reconsidered: epistemic shifts and the emergence of the feminist legal discourse, Maria Drakopoulou; Legal orientalism, Teemu Ruskola. Part II Political Philosophy: Discipline, Governmentality and the Genealogy of Law: Foucault's expulsion of law: toward a retrieval, Alan Hunt; Norms, discipline, and the law, François Ewald; Between governance and discipline: the law and Michel Foucault, Victor Tadros; Governed by law?, Nikolas Rose and Marina Valverde; Political power beyond the state: problematics of government, Nikolas Rose and Peter Miller. Part III Embodiment, Difference, Sexuality and the Law: Foucault and the paradox of bodily inscriptions, Judith Butler; Foucault, rape, and the construction of the feminine body, Ann J. Cahill; Structured like a monster: understanding human difference through a legal category, Andrew N. Sharpe; Beyond the privacy principle, Kendall Thomas. Part IV The Subject of Rights and Ethics: Sexual ethics and postmodernism in gay rights philosophy, Carlos A. Ball; Power and right in Nietzsche and Foucault, Paul Patton; The 'paradox' of knowledge and power:Foucault on the bias, Thomas Keenan; Name index.