Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: A Philosophy of Legal Enigmas; P.Goodrich, F.Hoffman, M.Rosenfeld & C.Vismann PART I: THEORIES The Reader: Derrida Among the Philosophers; S.Critchley European introduction: Four Objections; D.Kennedy The Archive and the Beginning of Law; C.Vismann The Jurisprudence of the 'Force of Law'; P.Gehring Derrida's Ethical Turn: The Case of Terrorism; M.Rosenfeld Derrida and Foucault on Sovereignty; F.Balke PART II: DISCIPLINES Critical Intimacies: International Law; A.Orford 'Il n'y a pas de hors-texte': Intimations of Jacques Derrida as Comparatist-at-Law; P.Legrand Specters and Scholars: Derrida and the Tragedy of Political Thought; A.Thurschwell Between Forgiveness and Forgetting; P.Krapp Phantom and Justice; E.Weber Deadlines: Derrida and Critical Legal Scholarship; F.Hoffman Literature, Poetics, Law; A.Geary PART III: ENVOI Un Cygne Noir; P.Goodrich Saying Good-Bye; A.Ronell Index