The nature of public law / Public law and the emergence of the political / Private and public : some banalities about a platitude / The public, the private, and the law / Defending the domain of public law / Public law as democracy : the case of constitutional rights / The nation as "the public" : the resilient functionalism of public law / Public law, private law, and national identity / Globalization and the transcendence of the public/private divide : what is public law under conditions of globalization? / (The failure of) public law and the deliberative turn / The postnational horizon of constitutionalism and public law : paradigm extension or paradigm exhaustion? / The global governance of public law / The (re)constitution of the public in an global arena