Introduction; Sociological constitutionalism Paul Blokker and Chris Thornhill; Part I. National Constitutions and Sociological Method: 1. The social lives of constitutions Kim Lane Scheppele; 2. Towards a sociology of constitutional transformation – understanding South Africa's post-Apartheid constitutional order Heinz Klug; 3. Sociological constitutionalism – an evolutionary approach Hauke Brunkhorst; Part II. Constitutional Sociology between the National and the Transnational: 4. Constitutionalism between nation states and global law Chris Thornhill; 5. Politics and the political in sociological constitutionalism Paul Blokker; 6. Constitutions as symbolic orders – the cultural analysis of constitutionalism Hans Vorländer; 7. The rule of the market: economic constitutionalism understood sociologically Sabine Frerichs; Part III. Constitutional Law and Transnational Society: 8. From constitutionalism to transconstitutionalism: beyond constitutional nationalism, cosmopolitan constitutional unity and fragmentary constitutional pluralism Marcelo Neves; 9. Societal constitutionalism: nine variations on a theme by David Sciulli Gunther Teubner.