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Limits and Borders of Law

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This entry investigates the limits of the law. The notion of border is artificial; the idea of a boundary line that must not be crossed acts as a powerful normative symbol. However, this traditional approach can no longer be considered exhaustive, because legal spatiality, which distinguishes an interior from an exterior, is an idea best captured not by looking at boundaries but by thinking in terms of limits. Limits are ineliminable mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion and are constitutive of legal orders.

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Zanetti, G. (2021). Limits and Borders of Law. In: Cremades, J., Hermida, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Contemporary Constitutionalism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31739-7_120-1

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