http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200901-183434-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-path-back-to-the-law/ The Path Back to the Law Hesselink, Martijn eng 2020-09-01 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Law and Economics legal institutionalism neoliberalism realism social ontology Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 We more than ever need a theory of law which allows us to imagine and, hopefully, to realise the conditions for social progress. This means, at a minimum, a theory which makes it possible to see how law can help address chronic problems of capitalism, including inequality and environmental degradation, which are now at the point of creating existential risks for democracy and, indeed, humanity.