A new book by Ben Golder and Peter Fitzpatrick is the first in almost fifteen years to address the question of Foucault`s position on law.

Many readings of Foucault`s conception of law start from the proposition that he failed to consider the role of law in modernity, or indeed that he deliberately marginalized it.

In Foucault`s Law, Ben Golder, law lecturer at UNSW and Peter Fitzpatrick, Anniversary Professor of Law at Birkbeck, University of London, canvass a wealth of primary and secondary sources to rebut this argument. They argue that rather than marginalize law, Foucault develops a much more radical, nuanced and coherent theory of law than his critics have acknowledged.

Foucault`s Law is an important and original contribution to the ongoing debate on Foucault and law, engaging not only with Foucault`s diverse writings on law and legal theory, but also with the extensive interpretive literature on the topic.

Foucault`s Law is published by Routledge-Cavendish.