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1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Law and Marxism 1
Paul O’Connell and Umut Özsu

PART I MARX AND THE MARXIST TRADITION

2 Legal and illegal political tactics in Marxist political theory 6
Clyde W Barrow
3 Marx on the Factory Acts: Law, exploitation, and class struggle 21
Daniel McLoughlin and Talina Hürzeler
4 ‘Putting weapons into the hands of the proletariat’: Marx on the
contradiction between capitalism and liberal democracy 35
August H Nimtz
5 Marx’s concept of dictatorship 61
Cosmin Sebastian Cercel
6 Revolution, Lenin, and law 77
Michael Head
7 Marx, Engels, Lenin, and the right of peoples to self-determination in
international law 98
Bill Bowring
8 Pashukanis’ commodity-form theory of law 115
Matthew Dimick
9 Thinking in a Gramscian way: Reflections on Gramsci and law 139
Pablo Ciocchini and Stéfanie Khoury
10 Poulantzas’ changing views on law and the state 156
Bob Jessop
11 The state as social relation: Poulantzas on materiality and political strategy 173
Rafael Khachaturian

PART II CONTEMPORARY MARXIST ANALYSIS OF LAW,RIGHTS, AND THE STATE

12 Marx’s critique and the constitution of the capitalist state 190

13 Marx and critical constitutional theory 209
Nimer Sultany
14 The reproduction of moral economies in capitalism: Reading Thompson
structurally 242
Nate Holdren
15 Law and the state in Frankfurt School critical theory 261
Chris O’Kane
16 Feminist materialism and the laws of social reproduction 283
Miriam Bak McKenna
17 Marxism, labour and employment law, and the limits of legal reform in
class society 299
Ahmed White
18 Karl Marx, Douglass North, and postcolonial states: The relation
between law and development 319
BS Chimni
19 Transcending disciplinary fetishisms: Marxism, neocolonialism, and
international law 335
Radha D’Souza
20 Taking political economy seriously: Grundriss for a Marxist analysis of
international law 356
Rémi Bachand
21 From class-based project to imperial formation: European Union law
and the reconstruction of Europe 375
Eva Nanopoulos

PART III FUTURE ORIENTATIONS OF MARXIST LEGAL ANALYSIS

22 From free time to idle time: Time, work-discipline, and the gig economy 400
Rebecca Schein
23 Greening anti-imperialism and the national question 421
Max Ajl
24 Ideology, narrative, and law: ‘Operation Car Wash’ in Brazil 444
Enzo Bello, Gustavo Capela, and Rene José Keller
25 The poetry of the future: Law, Marxism, and social change 458
Paul O’Connell
26 Nomocratic social change: Reassessing the transformative potential of
law in neoliberal times 477

27 Beyond fetishism and instrumentalism: Rethinking Marxism and law
under neoliberalism 496
Igor Shoikhedbrod
28 Law and the socialist ideal 511
Christine Sypnowich
29 Marx on law and method 528
Natalia Delgado
30 Principles for a dialectical-materialist analysis of law and the state 543
Dimitrios Kivotidis
Index 558

Max Ajl, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Social Sciences, Rural Sociology Group,Wageningen University & Research
Rémi Bachand, Professor of Law, Université du Québec à Montréal
Miriam Bak McKenna, Lecturer in Law, Lund University
Clyde W Barrow, Professor of Political Science, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Enzo Bello, Associate Professor, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro
Bill Bowring, Professor of Law, Birkbeck, University of London
Honor Brabazon, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies, St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo
Gustavo Capela, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Cosmin Sebastian Cercel, Associate Professor of Law, University of Nottingham
BS Chimni, Distinguished Professor of International Law, OP Jindal Global University
Pablo Ciocchini, Lecturer in Criminology, University of Liverpool
Natalia Delgado, Lecturer in Law, University of Southampton
Matthew Dimick, Professor of Law, University of Buffalo
Radha D’Souza, Reader in Law, University of Westminster
Michael Head, Professor of Law, Western Sydney University
Nate Holdren, Associate Professor of Law, Politics, and Society, Drake University
Rob Hunter, Independent Scholar, PhD in Politics, Princeton University
Talina Hürzeler, Independent Scholar, LLB, University of New South Wales
Bob Jessop, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Lancaster
Rene José Keller, Independent Scholar, PhD in Law, Universidade do Estado do Rio de
Janeiro, and PhD in Social Work, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
Rafael Khachaturian, Lecturer in Critical Writing, University of Pennsylvania
Stéfanie Khoury, Independent Scholar, PhD in Sociology of Law, Università degli Studi di
Milano and Universidad del País Vasco
Dimitrios Kivotidis, Lecturer in Law, University of East London
Daniel McLoughlin, Senior Lecturer in Law, Society, and Criminology, University of New South Wales

Eva Nanopoulos, Senior Lecturer in Law, Queen Mary, University of London
August H Nimtz, Professor of Political Science and African American and African Studies,University of Minnesota
Paul O’Connell, Reader in Law, SOAS, University of London
Chris O’Kane, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Umut Özsu, Associate Professor of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University, Canada
Rebecca Schein, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Carleton University
Igor Shoikhedbrod, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Law, Justice, and Society,Dalhousie University
Nimer Sultany, Reader in Law, SOAS, University of London
Christine Sypnowich, Professor of Philosophy, Queen’s University
Ahmed White, Professor of Law, University of Colorado at Boulder