1. * Earlier versions of this paper were presented at workshops at the European University Institute in Florence and at the Faculty of Law of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat in Frankfurt-am-Main. For critical comments I would like to thank Christian Joerges, Gaby Muller, Gerard Rowe, Fabian Steinhauer, Gunther Teubner, Franz Werro, Dan Wielsch, and Rudolf Wietholter.
2. 1B. De Sousa Santos,Towards a New Legal Common Sense: Law, Globalization, and Emancipation, 2nd edn (Butterworths, 2002), at 437.
3. 2De Sousa Santos,op. cit.note 1supra, at 437.
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