Gunther Teubner 
Dilemmas of Law in the Welfare State [PDF ebook] 

Frontmatter — Foreword — I Introduction — The Transformation of Law in the Welfare State — II The Welfare State and its Impact on Law — Legal Culture and the Welfare State — The Rule of Law and the Promotional Function of Law in the Welfare State — A Concept of Social Law — Legal Subjectivity as a Precondition for the Intertwinement of Law and the Welfare State — III Dilemmas of Law in the Welfare State — The Self-Reproduction of Law and its Limits — The Rules of the Game in the Welfare State — The Concept of Rights and the Welfare State — Legal Discourse in the Positive State: A Post-Structuralist Account — IV Perspectives of Legal Development — Law as Medium and Law as Institution — Materialization and Proceduralization in Modern Law — Law as Critical Discussion — Three Types of Legal Structure: The Conditional, the Purposive and the Relational Program — After Legal Instrumentalism? Strategie Models of Post-Regulatory Law — Authors’ Biographical Sketches — Name Index — Subject Index