Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I. Law and State (Keynote Papers) -- Law from a Logical Point of View. Three Basic Questions (Giovanni Battista Ratti) -- The Emergence and Survival of the Modern State (Michel Troper) -- Part II. Methodological Approaches -- Two Approaches to the Methodology of Legal Theory: Hans Kelsen and Jerzy Wróblewski (Monika Zalewska) -- The Concept of 'Human Nature': An Attempt to Approach Law from an Essentialist Perspective? (Silvia Salardi) -- Part III. Language of Law -- Legal Philosophers, Meaning and Force (Alessio Sardo) -- On impossibility in law (Silvia Zorzetto) -- Part IV. Constitutional and EU Law -- Judicial Review of Constitutional Amendments: A Theoretical Approach (Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz) -- The Substance and Effects of EU Law and Jurisprudence under the Social Constructivist Research Agenda (Domenica Dreyer) -- Part V. Contemporary State -- Can We Still Drive the State Machine the 'Old School' Way? Structural and Functional Deficits of the Modern State (Martin Belov) -- Privatising Law in Western, Multi-Faith and Multicultural Democracies (Marco Stefano Birtolo) -- Part VI. State and Crisis -- States of Crisis and Crises of the State: Redefining the Limits of National Sovereignty and State Powers in Times of Emergency (Axelle Reiter) -- Peacebuilding and Recognition of States: Failures of the International Territorial Administrations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo (Robin Caballero).