Jason Krentos (University of Hertfordshire) has posted The Rule of Law as a Community of Strangers: A Horizontal Dimension on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper introduces 'strangerdom', the epistemic separation between legal agents, as a normative feature of the legality 1. Because the legal writer cannot be expected to know or converse with an open-ended class of future addressees, interpretation must function as an act of reading rather than authorial retrieval.