Timing of Lawmaking

Edited by Frank Fagan, Professor of Law, South Texas College of Law Houston and Saul Levmore, William B. Graham Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School, US

• Contents:Part I Timing Devices1. Legal Cycles and Stabilization RulesFrank Fagan2. Legislating CrisisDavid Kamin3. The More It Changes, The More It Stays the Same?: Automatic Indexing and Current PolicyDan Shaviro4. Racing the Clock: Deadlines, Conflict, and Negotiating in LawmakingDaniel A. Farber5. Playing for Constitutional Time: Interim Constitutions and Transitional ProvisionsTom Ginsburg and Eric Alston6. Legislative Sunrises: Transitions, Veiled Commitments, and Carbon TaxesFrank Fagan and Saul LevmorePart II Law's Architecture7. Timing of Consent Jacob E. Gersen and Jeannie Suk8. Interest Groups and the Durability of LawSaul Levmore9. Self-executing Statutes in the Administrative State Adam Samaha10. Intellectual Property and Legislative Innovation Saul LevmorePart III Time in Judging11. Janus-Faced Law: A Philosophical DebateMartha C. Nussbaum12. Renovating the Efficiency of Common Law Hypothesis Frank Fagan13. Delaying Declarations of Constitutional Invalidity Anthony Niblett14. The Sins of Their Fathers: Illegitimacy in Japan and Surrogate Punishment across Generations J. Mark RamseyerIndex

‘Without doubt, this book is an important brick in the process to the critical theorization of the relationship between law and time, which was until recently largely underappreciated.'