The Public in Law

This collection brings together a group of scholars to discuss the operation of "the public" in a range of different legal spaces. The work provides a synoptic overview of the instantiations of "the public" which appear in a number of legal spheres and attempts to ascertain whether the notion can have coherent or congruent meanings across these heterogeneous domains. A key question which frames the contributions is whether "the public" operates as a bona fide interface between law and society.

Claudio Michelon is Lecturer in Law, University of Edinburgh. He was previously Adjunct Professor, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). He is Secretary-General of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy and President of the Brazilian Institute for Legal Philosophy (IBFD). Gregor Clunie is a PhD Candidate, University of Glasgow. Christopher McCorkindale is Lecturer in Law, Glasgow Caledonian University. His recent publications include a book on `The Legal Thought of Hannah Arendt'. Haris Psarras is a Tutor in Jurisprudence and in Legal Reasoning & Legal System, School of Law, University of Edinburgh. He is also Attorney at Law, Athens Bar.