282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

Research on law's relationship with time has flourished over the past decade. This edited collection aims to put law and time scholarship into wider context, advancing conversations on time and temporalities between socio-legal scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, geographers and historians. Through a diverse range of contributions, the collection explores how legal modalities of time emerge... Read more

TABLE OF CONTENTS







List of Contributors



Acknowledgements









Introduction, Emily Grabham and Siân M. Beynon-Jones



SOCIAL TIME: COURTS, LITIGATION AND PUBLIC AUTHORITY









1. The Long Sudden Death of Antonin Scalia, Carol J. Greenhouse









2. ‘No. I Won’t Go Back’: National Time, Trauma and Legacies of Symphysiotomy in Ireland, Máiréad Enright









3. Time-Spaces of Adjudication in the U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Philip Ashton









4. On delay and duration. Law’s Temporal Orders in Historical Child Sexual Abuse Cases, Sinéad Ring



POST/COLONIAL TIMES









5. ‘Give Us His Name’: Time, Law, and Language in a Settler Colony, Genevieve Renard Painter









6. Traditional Medicines, Law, and the (Dis)ordering of Temporalities, Emilie Cloatre









7. Making Land Liquid: On Time and Title Registration, Sarah Keenan



THE POLITICS OF LABOUR TIME









8. Regulating the 'Half-timer' in Colonial India: Factory Legislation, its Anomalies and Resistance, Maya John



9. Work-time Technology and Unpaid Labour in Paid Care Work: A Socio-legal Analysis of Employment Contracts and Electronic Monitoring, L.J.B. Hayes



TECHNOLOGIES AND INFRASTRUCTURES OF TIME









10. Standards in the Shadows for Everyone to See: The Supranational Regulation of Time and the Concern over Temporal Pluralism, Kevin Birth









11. Energy Governance, Risk, and Temporality: The Construction of Energy Time through Law and Regulation, Antti Silvast, Mikko Jalas and Jenny Rinkinen



TOPOLOGIES OF TIME









12. Doing Times, Doing Truths: The Legal Case File as a Folded Object, Irene van Oorschot









13. Topological Time, Law, and Subjectivity: A Description in Five Folds, Sameena Mulla



Index

Biography

Siân M. Beynon-Jones is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York.



Emily Grabham is Professor of Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent.