The Multifaceted Notion of Time in International Law

Van der Ploeg, Klara Polackova; Pasquet, Luca

Abstract

Although time forms a part of the very bedrock of international law as a legal order and fundamentally determines international law as a discipline, the relationship between time and international law has received only limited attention. To most international lawyers, time appears as simply a technical problem, and mainstream international law doctrine presents international law as essentially atemporal. However, such attitudes obscure the complex temporalities involved in international law and the choices that have underpinned them. Time in international law is profoundly multifaceted, and there is a significant intra-disciplinary diversity in the understanding of the relationship between international law and time. Nevertheless, international law and international lawyers may be said to primarily cope and engage with time in two main—albeit intertwined—ways: through the construction of narratives and through the development of legal techniques.

Citation

Van der Ploeg, K. P., & Pasquet, L. (2022). The Multifaceted Notion of Time in International Law. In International Law and Time: Narratives and Techniques (1-24). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09465-1_1

• Online Publication Date: Dec 14, 2022
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2022
• Deposit Date: Jan 30, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 2, 2024
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 1-24
• Series Title: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
• Series Number: 101
• Book Title: International Law and Time: Narratives and Techniques
• Chapter Number: 1
• ISBN: 9783031094644
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09465-1_1
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5205732
• Publisher URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-09465-1_1
• Additional Information: First Online: 14 December 2022
• Contract Date: May 5, 2022