Contents: Series preface Introduction, Luc J. Wintgens and Philippe Thion Part I Theory of Legislation: Legitimacy and legitimation from the legisprudential perspective, Luc. J. Wintgens Lawmaking: between discourse and legal text, Wojciech Cyrul The rule of law as the law of legislation, Tatsuo Inoue. Part II Legislation, Rules and Norms: Legislative techniques, Peter Wahlgren Questioning alternatives to legal regulation, Philippe Thion The emergence of new types of norms, Pauline Westerman A peacekeeping mission as a new category of war? An institutional analysis, Hanneke van Schooten. Part III Legislation and the Disciplines: Grounding behaviour in law and economics, Bruce Anderson and Philip McShane Legislation and informatics, Marie-Francine Moens Nulla poena sine lege Parliamentaria? Democratic legitimacy and European penal law, Linda GrA ning.