Temporal Boundaries of Law and Politics

Luigi Corrias is Assistant Professor of Legal Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Lyana Francot is Associate Professor of Legal Theory, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

• 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 Jiří Přibáň; 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