sorry, i don't buy this. you want to separate the binary communication of legal/illegal from the structure undergirding the disputes itself, but then also want to claim parallel systems.
I find this separation inconceivably pedantic and metaphysical, but you do you, it reads to me like wanting to have your cake and eat it.
maybe I will read mr luhmann one day to get a better hold on his anti-foundational framework (?) . although sociology is not an area I care much for (I have finite time after all) and
@version owes me at least 4 days of MDMA even though I hate drugs these days...
What book of his was your favourite? He has a fairly large oeuvre.