The two forms of legal time: Pierre Legendre’s “La Durée poignardée”: Remarques sur la structure et le temps

Rahmatian, A. (2023) The two forms of legal time: Pierre Legendre’s “La Durée poignardée”: Remarques sur la structure et le temps. Law and Critique, (doi: 10.1007/s10978-023-09354-5) (Early Online Publication)

Abstract

In his Leçons VII (Le désir politique de dieu) Pierre Legendre applies the idea or expression of ‘instituting time’ (‘instituer le temps’), that is, working with time as a malleable material, but at the same time conceptualising time as dogmatic time, especially in the interpretation of law. As an example of this concept he refers to the English Common Law, a ‘style’ of ‘governing by solving cases’. This text will analyse the notion of two times of law—inaugural/mythological and historical—and how it applies to Common Law judgments, as well as to Institutional Writers that are characteristic of Scots Law in particular.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Early Online Publication
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Rahmatian, Professor Andreas
• Authors: Rahmatian, A.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Law
• Journal Name: Law and Critique
• Publisher: Springer
• ISSN: 0957-8536
• ISSN (Online): 1572-8617
• Published Online: 29 August 2023
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2023 The Author
• First Published: First published in Law and Critique 2023
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons License