| Preface | | viii | |
| Introduction | | 1 | |
| 1: Plunder and the Rule of Law | | 10 | |
| | 10 | |
| Plunder, Hegemony, and Positional Superiority |
| | 17 | |
| Law, Plunder, and European Expansionism |
| | 20 | |
| Institutionalizing Plunder: the Colonial Relationship and the Imperial Project |
| | 26 | |
| A Story of Continuity: Constructing the Empire of Law (lessness) |
| | 28 | |
| 2: Neo-liberalism: Economic Engine of Plunder | | 35 | |
| | 35 | |
| Neo-Liberalism: an Economic Theory of Simplification and a Spectacular Project |
| | 42 | |
| Structural Adjustment Programs and the Comprehensive Development Framework |
| | 53 | |
| Development Frameworks, Plunder, and the Rule of Law |
| | 58 | |
| 3: Before Neo-liberalism: a Story of Western Plunder | | 64 | |
| The European Roots of Colonial Plunder |
| | 64 | |
| The Fundamental Structure of US Law as a Post-colonial Reception |
| | 65 | |
| A Theory of Lack, Yesterday and Today |
| | 67 | |
| Before Neo-liberalism: Colonial Practices and Harmonious Strategies û Yesterday and Now |
| | 76 | |
| 4: Plunder of Ideas and the Providers of Legitimacy | | 81 | |
| Hegemony and Legal Consciousness |
| | 81 | |
| Intellectual Property as Plunder of Ideas |
| | 83 | |
| Providing Legitimacy: Law and Economics |
| | 88 | |
| Providing Legitimacy: Lawyers and Anthropologists |
| | 100 | |
| 5: Constructing the Conditions for Plunder | | 111 | |
| The Plunder of Oil: Iraq and Elsewhere |
| | 111 | |
| The New World Order of Plunder |
| | 120 | |
| Not Only Iraq: Plunder, War, and Legal Ideologies of Intervention |
| | 123 | |
| Institutional Lacks as Conditions for Plunder: Real or Created? |
| | 128 | |
| "Double Standards Policy" and Plunder |
| | 130 | |
| Poverty: Justification for Intervention and Consequence of Plunder |
| | 133 | |
| 6: International Imperial Law | | 137 | |
| Reactive Institutions of Imperial Plunder |
| | 137 | |
| US Rule of Law: Forms of Global Domination |
| | 142 | |
| Globalization of the American Way |
| | 144 | |
| An Ideological Institution of Global Governance: International Law |
| | 150 | |
| Holocaust Litigation: Back to the Future |
| | 155 | |
| The Swallowing of International Law by US Law |
| | 158 | |
| Economic Power and the US Courts as Imperial Agencies |
| | 164 | |
| 7: Hegemony and Plunder: Dismantling Legality in the United States | | 168 | |
| Strategies to Subordinate the Rule of Law to Plunder |
| | 168 | |
| Plunder in High Places: Enron and its Aftermath |
| | 172 | |
| Plunder in Even Higher Places: Electoral Politics and Plunder |
| | 176 | |
| Plunder of Liberty: the War on Terror |
| | 179 | |
| Plunder Undisrupted: the Discourse of Patriotism |
| | 191 | |
| 8: Beyond an Illegal Rule of Law? | | 196 | |
| Summing Up: Plunder and the Global Transformation of Law |
| | 196 | |
| Imperial Rule of Law or the People's Rule of Law? |
| | 202 | |
| | 211 | |
| Notes to Text | | 217 | |
| Selected Further Reading | | 240 | |
| Documentary Film Resources | | 266 | |
| Index | | 273 | |
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