1st Edition

Temporal Boundaries of Law and Politics Time Out of Joint

218 Pages

by Routledge

218 Pages

by Routledge

218 Pages

by Routledge

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In the last decade, the changing role of time in society has once again taken centre stage in the academic debate. A prominent, but surely not the only, aspect of this debate hinges on the so-called acceleration of time and its societal consequences. Despite the fact that time is fundamental to the way in which law and politics function, the influence of the contemporary experience of time on law... Read more

Part I: Justice

Chapter 1

Judging the Past: Three Ways of Understanding Time

Antoine Garapon

Chapter 2

Law at the Right Time: A Plea for Slow Law in Hasty Times

Bart van Klink

Chapter 3

Law, Time, and Inhumanity: Reflections on the Impresciptible

Luigi Corrias

Part II: Legal Certainty

Chapter 4

Airports Built on Shifting Grounds? Social Acceleration and the Temporal Dimension of Law

Hartmut Rosa

Chapter 5

Suspended in Gaffa: Legal Slowness in the Acceleration Society

Lyana Francot

Chapter 6

Uncertain Futures and the Problem of Constraining Emergency Powers: Temporal Dimensions of Carl Schmitt’s Theory of the State of Exception

Marc de Wilde

Chapter 7

Constitutional Preambles and the Uncertain Future

Nomi Claire Lazar

Part III: Expediency

Chapter 8

Collective Memory, Constitutional Polity and Functional Differentiation of Modern Society

Jiri Priban

Chapter 9

Informing Life: Temporal Politics of Information in the Administration of Pandemics

Sven Opitz

Chapter 10

Immediacy, Potentia and Constraining Emergency Powers

Bas Schotel