Melissaris, Emmanuel (2005) The chronology of the legal. McGill law journal, 50 (4). pp. 839-861. ISSN 0024-9041
Abstract
The most influential legal philosophies—notably legal positivism—tend to draw a sharp epistemological distinction between the concept of time and the concept of law. The author provides a legal pluralist account of law, understanding it to consist in a shared idea of justice and the shared normative experience of participants in a legal discourse. A common assumption by participants of their ability to grasp and control time—what the author terms “chronos”—forms one aspect of their shared experience of the legal. A normative understanding of time is thus fundamental to a normative understanding of law.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://lawjournal.mcgill.ca/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2005 The Author |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | K Law > K Law (General) |
| Sets: | Departments > Law |
| Rights: | http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/rights/LSERO.htm |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/15668/ |
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