Inclusion, retraction or relationship? Notes on the relation among legal systems taking the cue from the concept of boundary

Abstract

This work takes the cue from the concept of border in the Modern Age and its contemporary crisis, to discuss Habermas’ proposal of a world domestic policy (Weltinnenpolitik). The analysis is conducted through constant references to the alternative model constituted by Lindahl’s works. Finally this paper does some critics to the strategy of holding-back-to-hold-out proposed by Lindahl like the only way to fix a correct relation between two legal systems divided by a “fault line”.

Keywords: crisis, border, legal systems, fault lines, word domestic policy, Habermas, Lindahl.