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Law and Spatio-Temporal Dimensions: Investigating the Boundaries of Normativity

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Law and Spatio-Temporal Dimensions: Investigating the Boundaries of Normativity

Author: Giovanni Bombelli; Paolo Umberto Maria Di Lucia; Paolo Heritier; Paolo Silvestri; Silvia Zorzetto
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
ISBN: 9783032254290
Published In: July 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Switzerland ? Disclaimer:
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This book provides a multifaceted investigation into the relationship between law, normativity, and the spatio-temporal coordinates in which legal phenomena emerge and transform. It offers a cross-disciplinary and philosophically grounded perspective that rethinks the categories of space and time as fundamental dimensions of the normative experience. Bringing together contributions from legal theory, philosophy, semiotics, comparative law, and cultural studies, the volume explores how law is affected by, and in turn affects, evolving conceptions of time and space and how the legal experience belongs to human history. This book investigates the ontological status of legal norms and the implications of their despatialisation or deterritorialisation in digital and transnational contexts. Several chapters address questions about the existence and longevity of legal norms, others examine the distinction between the spatial scope and the actual validity of norms in light of the effects of political change, cyber-activities, and global regulatory trends. The temporal dimension of legal responsibility is re-examined with regard to concepts such as negligence, intention, and agency.

Moreover, the book explores challenges of decision-making posed by algorithmic governance and behavioural regulation involving classical models of normativity based on rationality and chronological linearity. Furthermore, the volume draws on intellectual traditions from across the world (Western phenomenology, classical legal thought, non-Western cosmologies and ethical frameworks) for reconsidering the way normativity is shaped by paradigms of space and time related to peculiar dimensions (rhythm, ritual, kairos), which offer alternative temporalities encompassing legal practices and our understanding of some philosophical-legal categories. By integrating legal philosophy with intercultural and technological-ecological perspectives, this book opens new avenues for understanding law's dynamic entanglement with space and time.

This volume is intended for scholars and advanced students in legal philosophy, jurisprudence, legal semiotics, comparative law, and interdisciplinary legal studies interested in exploring emerging paradigms of normativity beyond traditional legal frameworks.

Introduction

Remarks on the Existence of Laws over Time

Retrospective Normativity: On the A Posteriori Genesis of Norms

Legal Norms in Space: Revisiting Kelsen's Spatial Sphere of Validity of Norms

The Normative Dimension of Kelsen's Concepts of Causality and Retribution

Premeditation, Negligence, and the Differences of Having or Lacking a Plan

Time and obedience. Recent challenges for legal normativity

The "Despatialization of Justice" in Antoine Garapon's Reading

Law as a "Between": A Spatio-temporal and "Institutional" Perspective

Rhythm and Law. Performance and Positivisation as Normative Experiences

A Planetary Law at the Right Time

The Art of Kairos: Crafting Arguments for the Right Time and Place in Law