Introduction; Andreas Niederberger & Philipp Schink; Part 1: Classic Republicanism and Democracy; 1. The Tension Between Law and Politics in the Modern Republican Tradition, Marco Geuna, Associate Professor of History of Political Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Milan; 2. The Idea of a Kantian Republicanism, Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Professor of Philosophy at the Johann Wolfang Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main; 3. Impotence, Perspicuity, and a Government of Laws: Madison's Critique of Republican Legislation, Jack N. Rakove, W.R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University; Part 2: Democracy and Politics; 4. Political Republicanism, John P. McCormick, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago; 5. Alternative Conceptions of Republicanism: Legal Consequences, John Ferejohn, was Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and has been a regular visiting Professor at NYU Law School from 1993 to the present; 6. A Republican Conception of Justice, Rainer Forst, Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/M; 7. Legal Formations and Democratic Citizens in Republican Theory, Galya B. Ruffer, founder of the Center for Forced Migration Studies at the Buffet Center for International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern University and the Director of the International Studies Program; 8. Neorepublicanism and Global Justice: Extram rempublicam nulla iustitia?, Cecile Laborde, Professor of Political Theory at the University College London; Part 3: Democracy and Law; 9. A Republican Rule of Law?, Philipp Schink, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main; 10. Should Republicans Believe in Rights Based Constitutional Judicial Review?, Richard Bellamy, Professor of Political Science, UCL; 11. Republicanism and Transnational Democracy, Andreas Niederberger, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main (Germany); 12. Living without Freedom: The Rule of Law, James Bohman, Danforth I Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and Professor of International Studies at St Louis University; Part 4: Conclusion; 13. Two Concepts of Republican Law, Liberty and Politics, Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University.