1st Edition
Temporal Boundaries of Law and Politics Time Out of Joint
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 and politics remains underdeveloped. How, for example, does society’s structural acceleration impact on justice? Does law actually offer stability and predictability in an ever-changing global world? How can legal and political institutions function in the wake of ever-increasing uncertainty? Both law and politics employ time to order society but they are also limited in what can be effectuated by time. It is this very tension between temporal possibilities and limitations that the contributors to this collection – drawn from different fields of law, as well as from other disciplines – examine.
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
Biography
Luigi Corrias is Assistant Professor of Legal Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Lyana Francot is Associate Professor of Legal Theory, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.