No. 38 (2025): In-between Spaces: Between Disaffection and Political Representation
Articles

In-betweens: Inside and Outside Global Law

Hans Lindahl
Tilburg University de Países Bajos
Published June 26, 2025

Keywords:

boundaries, fault, lines, representation, recognition, globalization, authority
How to Cite
Lindahl, H. (2025). In-betweens: Inside and Outside Global Law. Bajo Palabra, (38), 29–72. https://doi.org/10.15366/bp2025.38.001

Abstract

Protracted and bitter resistance by alter-globalisation and anti-globalisation
movements around the world shows that
the globalisation of law transpires as the
globalisation of inclusion and exclusion.
Humanity is inside and outside global
law in all its possible manifestations.
How is this possible? Conceptually: how
must legal orders be structured such that,
even if we can now speak of law beyond
State borders, no emergent global legal
order is possible that can include without
excluding? Normatively: is an authoritative politics of boundaries possible,
which neither postulates the possibility
of realising an all-inclusive global legal
order nor accepts resignation or paralysis
in the face of the globalisation of inclusion and exclusion?

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