Law and Time

Siân M. Beynon-Jones is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York. Emily Grabham is Professor of Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction, Emily Grabham and Siân M. Beynon-Jones

SOCIAL TIME: COURTS, LITIGATION AND PUBLIC AUTHORITY

1. The Long Sudden Death of Antonin Scalia, Carol J. Greenhouse

2. ‘No. I Won’t Go Back’: National Time, Trauma and Legacies of Symphysiotomy in Ireland, Máiréad Enright

3. Time-Spaces of Adjudication in the U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Philip Ashton

4. On delay and duration. Law’s Temporal Orders in Historical Child Sexual Abuse Cases, Sinéad Ring

POST/COLONIAL TIMES

5. ‘Give Us His Name’: Time, Law, and Language in a Settler Colony, Genevieve Renard Painter

6. Traditional Medicines, Law, and the (Dis)ordering of Temporalities, Emilie Cloatre

7. Making Land Liquid: On Time and Title Registration, Sarah Keenan

THE POLITICS OF LABOUR TIME

8. Regulating the 'Half-timer' in Colonial India: Factory Legislation, its Anomalies and Resistance, Maya John

9. Work-time Technology and Unpaid Labour in Paid Care Work: A Socio-legal Analysis of Employment Contracts and Electronic Monitoring, L.J.B. Hayes

TECHNOLOGIES AND INFRASTRUCTURES OF TIME

10. Standards in the Shadows for Everyone to See: The Supranational Regulation of Time and the Concern over Temporal Pluralism, Kevin Birth

11. Energy Governance, Risk, and Temporality: The Construction of Energy Time through Law and Regulation, Antti Silvast, Mikko Jalas and Jenny Rinkinen

TOPOLOGIES OF TIME

12. Doing Times, Doing Truths: The Legal Case File as a Folded Object, Irene van Oorschot

13. Topological Time, Law, and Subjectivity: A Description in Five Folds, Sameena Mulla

Index