Research Handbook on Law and Time / edited by Frank Fagan, Saul Levmore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fagan, Frank, editor.

Levmore, Saul, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Research handbooks in legal theory.

Research Handbooks in Legal Theory Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time (Law).

Time management.

Time--Social aspects.

Time.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Introduction to the research handbook on law and time / Frank Fagan and Saul Levmore

Part I: Organizing and interpreting time

1. Coordination, conflict, and the laws of time / Daniel J. Hemel and Matthew Hamilton

2. Moral and evidentiary statutes of limitations / Frank Fagan

3. Temporary justices

4. The dynamic dilemma: Dynamics and disuniformity in statutory interpretation / Jonah B. Gelbach

5. Time and contract interpretation: Lessons from machine learning

Part II: Information, path dependence, and the dilemma of waiting

6. Timing the regulatory tightrope / Adriana Z. Robertson

7. One (more) virtue of temporary law

8. Litigation scar tissue and construction costs / Diego A. Zambrano

9. Leveraging information forcing in good faith

Part III: Equity and compromise

10. Time distortions in the income tax system: The 2024 proposals to chip away at the realization privilege / Julie A. Roin

11. Time is, time was: Evaluating the use of the life cycle model as a fiscal policy tool / Daniel Shaviro

12. Timing rules and legislative compromise / 13. Temporary Covid laws / Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov, Daniel Shtauber, Gaya Harari-Heit and Gonen Ilan

Part IV: Modest change and the cost of time

14. Intellectual property and time: A behavioral example

15. The attenuation of legal change / Luigi Alberto Franzoni

16. Modest instability over time: From law to religions and universities / Saul Levmore

17. Reconsidering litigation delay / Abdi Aidid and Anthony Niblett

18. Lost time: Paying for delays associated with labor strikes and traffic jams / Saul Levmore.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781035316762

1035316765