In six sections, the volume deals with different questions of political philosophy. The first section focuses on democratic theories, the second on conceptual debates, discussing topics such as collective rights, the terrorist phenomenon, Libertarianism and conceptions of freedom. In a third section on contemporary debates, perspectives on sovereignity and legitimacy as well as discourse theory versus political liberalism are discussed. The volume also features essays on democracy and law, and in a section entitled Judicial construction of democracy papers on constitutional reviews by judges in the Netherlands as well as the construction of democracy in the context of Latin-American democracies. Finally, in the last section the volume deals with the European Constitutional Treatise, analysing the arguments and examining the legitimacy crisis and the main objections displayed against this treatise. Contents I. Globalization and Law / Globalizacion y Derecho: Augusto Cerri: New and Ancient Implements of Legal Reasoning in the Framework of Globalization Alexandra George: The (In)Justice of Globalisation by Intellectual Propertisation Christopher B. Gray: World society and globalisation Gema Marcilla Cordoba: La desregulacion como tecnica normativa de la sociedad global Luis Martinez Roldan: Seguridad juridica y derecho en un mundo globalizado Francisco Puy Munoz: Derecho Natural y Derecho de la Globalizacion Christa Rautenbach: Rethinking South African Customary succession Laws in a Global Society Carlo Rossetti: The adversarial system, professional monopoly and injustice Csaba Varga: Reception of Legal Patterns in a Globalising Age II. Globalization and Justice / Globalizacion y Justicia: Nicolas Lopez Calera: Globalizacion y Justicia Z. Mimica: Is Global Justice Just another Utopia? Rex Martin: Problems of Distributive Economic Justice in Rawls’s Law of Peoples Stephane Courtois: Global Distributive Justice and Cultural Diversity Isabel Tamarit Lopez: Influencia de las biotecnologias en los paises en vias de desarrollo. Una teoria de la justicia desde el enfoque de las capacidades de Amartya Sen Isabel Trujillo: International distributive justice and cosmopolitanism: some remarks from legal philosophy Makoto Usami: Global Justice: Redistribution, Reparation, and Reformation III. Globalization and International Law /Globalizacion y Derecho Internacional: Nuria Belloso Martin: Orden juridico internacional y globalizacion: nuevas perspectivas en Europa Peter Van den Bossche: Rules on NGO Accreditation. Do Existing Legal Arrangements Facilitate the Legitimization of the Role of NGOs in International Organisations? Alicia Cebada Romero: Algunas reflexiones en torno a la fragmentacion del ordenamiento juridico internacional en relacion con las organizaciones internacionales Ringo Ossewaarde / Liesbet Heyse: Cosmopolitan Legitimation of Humanitarian Intervention: Its Practical Consequences for NGOs Eugenia Lopez-Jacoiste Diaz: Estrategia global contra el terrorismo: algunas reflexiones practicas Rainer Nickel: The missing link in Global Law: Regime Collisions, Societal Constitutionalism, and Participation in Global Governance. A comment on Gunter Teubner’s systems theory approach towards transnational law Jacob Dahl Rendtorff: Critical Theory and Deconstruction and International Law and Politics Isabel Turegano Mansilla: Cosmopolitanism: Between the Philosophical and the Institutional Debate IV. Globalization and Economy / Globalizacion y Economia: Alberto Carrio Sampedro: Estado y legislacion ante los procesos de regulacion del mercado Yuko Hashimoto: What Matters is Absolute Poverty, Not Relative Poverty Isabel Novosad: Desplazamiento del Derecho de Propiedad en el Sistema Bancario Don Ross: Poor Countries and Moral Critique of International Economic Institutions