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We And Cyberlaw: The Spatial Unity Of Constitutional Orders, Hans Lindahl
We And Cyberlaw: The Spatial Unity Of Constitutional Orders, Hans Lindahl
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This paper scrutinizes the fundamental assumption governing Gunther Teubner's theory of societal constitutionalism, namely that societal constitutions are ultimately about the regulation of inclusion and exclusion in global function systems. While endorsing the central role of inclusion/exclusion in constitutions, societal or otherwise, I argue that inclusion and exclusion are primordial categories of collective action, rather than functional categories. As a result, the self-closure which gives rise to a legal collective is spatial as much as it is temporal, and subjective no less than material. Inasmuch as legal orders must establish who ought to do what, where, and when, this entails, …