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Research Handbook on Law and Time

Research Handbook on Law and Time

Author: Frank Fagan; Saul Levmore
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781035316755
Published In: March 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This Research Handbook explores the interactions between law and time, demonstrating how both are pivotal in the organization of human activities, including legal proceedings and societal functions.

The book expands upon the structural relationship between law and time, examining how societies and legal systems coordinate around timing conventions and how the use of time constraints can alter litigation and deter socially destructive behavior. Expert contributors evaluate transition and timing rules, analyzing the ‘dilemma of waiting’, delayed implementation, the use of temporary laws in emergency situations, and third-party losses arising from delays. They also investigate practical issues such as mandatory retirement, how statutes of limitations work, and the impact of legal developments over time.

Illustrating the importance of time in legal processes and decision-making, the Research Handbook on Law and Time is an essential resource for students and scholars of constitutional and administrative law, legal philosophy and legal theory. It is also beneficial to policymakers, judges and practitioners in economics and political science.

Introduction to the Research Handbook on Law and Time 1

Frank Fagan and Saul Levmore

PART I. ORGANIZING AND INTERPRETING TIME

Coordination, conflict, and the laws of time 9

Daniel J. Hemel and Matthew Hamilton

Moral and evidentiary statutes of limitations 38

Frank Fagan

Temporary justices 49

The dynamic dilemma: dynamics and disuniformity in statutory interpretation 73

Jonah B. Gelbach

Time and contract interpretation: lessons from machine learning 112

PART II. INFORMATION, PATH DEPENDENCE, AND THE DILEMMA OF WAITING