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? Strategic Models of Post-regulatory Law -- Authors' Biographical Sketches -- Name Index -- Subject Index.