PrefaceIntroduction: InklingsI. Nature as Alterity in Legal FormII. Nature, Legality and Natural LawIII. Law, Bios and Bare LifeIV. Globalisation: A Very Short StoryV. The ‘Old Settlement’ and the Legal Summa DivisioVI. Caveats: Law and Nomos; Lex and IusVII. Private International Law and its Double ScenographyVIII. Law’s Residues and the Shadow StoryIX. Bricolage, Interdisciplinarity and MethodX. What is Ecological about this Alternative Jurisprudential Design?XI. Plan and ProjectPART I: EPISTEMOLOGY AND GENEALOGY: STRUGGLING FOR THE SOUL OF METHODI. An Initial Glimpse: Private International Law and its Inner ConflictsII. An Example: Cross-Border Environmental LitigationIII. Down to Earth: PunctumIV. Bird’s-Eye View: StudiumV. The Stakes in MethodA. Monism vs Pluralism and Theories of TruthB. The Ecological Nature of MethodC. Approaching Alterity in Legal FormNature at the Stake1. The Story of OriginI. Genealogy and MethodologyA. The Consensual TaleB. Frictions and ContradictionsII. Myth and LegacyA. The Domestic Front: IrrelevanceB. The International Front: Self-IsolationThe Return of the Repressed2. The Shadow AccountI. Dialectical TensionsA. Paradigm DichotomiesB. NestingII. Competing ImaginariesA. State/Non-StateB. Law and FactC. Foreign/DomesticEclosionPART II: AESTHETICS AND ONTOLOGY: CONSTRUCTING THE NOMOS OF THE IN-BETWEEN3. Jurisdictional JurisprudenceI. Topos and TelosA. Territoriality as Natural DescriptionB. Territoriality as Value JudgementII. SovereigntyA. The Law of LawsB. The Status of the ExceptionTransition(s)4. A Jurisprudence of the BorderI. A ‘Juridical Ecology of Ligatures’A. Law as Go-betweenB. Law’s OscillationII. Law’s Morphological PluralityA. The Gaze of the JaguarB. The Art of the ShamanBefore the Law: After Extinction?PART III: ECONOMY AND ETHICS: REPAIRING THE SPLIT IN THE OIKOS5. Private International Neoliberal LegalityI. Toeing the LineA. Debt and the Capture of Human CollateralB. Foreign Investment and the ‘Capture of the Space of the International’C. Capital Structure and the Capture of AccountabilityD. Development and the Capture of TimeII. Disembedding the Rule of LawA. The Darwinian U-turn: A Brief but Giddy DetourB. Autonomy as a Licence to DisembedReversal6. An Ethic of Responsiveness: The Demands of InteralterityI. The Appeal of the (Legal) OtherA. The Categories of ToleranceB. The Social Construction of Acceptability (Ordre Public)C. Wrongs of RightsII. The Law of the OtherA. Responsibility and the Experience of IncommensurabilityB. Hospitality and the De-centring of SelfCoalescence7. Residue: Law’s Last Judgment: The Threshold of Our ResponsibilityBibliographyIndex