In different ways and from different angles, the participants in this special issue critically probe
the conceptual and normative underpinnings of the model of legal order developed in to Authority
and the Globalisation of Inclusion and Exclusion and other writings. This offers me the
opportunity to flesh out these underpinnings more fully and to draw out some of their implications
which were not discussed in the book. In particular, my response focuses on the concepts
of, and systematic relation between, representation, recognition, constituent power, equality, restrained
collective self-assertion, and a-legality.
