Time, Temporality and Legal Judgment

This book challenges the correspondence theory of judicial fact construction- that legal rules resemble and subsume facts 'out there'- and instead provides an account of fact construction through legally-produced times- or adjudicative temporalities- that structure legal subject and event formation in legal judgment.

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Tanzil Chowdhury is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) In Public Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context at Queen Mary, University of London

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Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1- The Polytemporalities of Law ****

Chapter 2- Times Past and Future and the Forms of Adjudicative Temporalities

Chapter 3- The Temporalities of Abstract Legal Judgment ****

Chapter 4- The Temporalities of Concrete Legal Judgment

Chapter 5- Adjudicative Temporalities and Judicial Fact Construction: A Case Law Analysis

Concluding Remarks