Plunder examines the dark side of the Rule of Law and explores how it has been used as a powerful political weapon by Western countries in order to legitimize plunder – the practice of violent extraction by stronger political actors victimizing weaker ones. Challenges traditionally held beliefs in the sanctity of the Rule of Law by exposing its dark side Examines the Rule of Law's relationship with 'plunder' – the practice of violent extraction by stronger political actors victimizing weaker ones – in the service of Western cultural and economic domination Provides global examples of plunder: of oil in Iraq; of ideas in the form of Western patents and intellectual property rights imposed on weaker peoples; and of liberty in the United States Dares to ask the paradoxical question – is the Rule of Law itself illegal?

【美】乌戈•马太，加利福尼亚大学哈斯汀分校、意大利都灵大学国际法与比较法法学教授。他同时是意大利国家科学院研究员，国际大学都灵学院学术协调员。目前专注于全球资本主义模式下某些法律及经济教条主义的批判性研究。

【美】劳拉•纳德，加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校人类学教授，人类学法律领域的国际学术权威。纳德教授曾组织对黎巴嫩、墨西哥和美国等地的实地考察项目；她在和谐意识形态及其对法律的影响方面做出过卓越成就，著述颇丰，令当今学术界瞩目。