Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-276) and index.; Introduction : from status to contract to cosmopolitanism -- Speaking the law -- History, heritage, and legal Mythoi -- Justice between the devil and the deep blue sea -- Human rights and the politics of aspiration -- Shaping inclusion and exclusion through law -- Law and the Fourth world -- Law and the moral economy of gender -- Ethnonationalism and conflict transformation -- Conclusion : law in a post-utopian world.;