Introduction

by Beynon-Jones, Siân M.

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In bringing together this collection on law's relationship with time, ourconcern has been to register an increasing commitment among scholars acrossdisciplines to shift such patterns of engagement. Our own research over the pastfew years has been preoccupied with the question of law's temporalities, drawingon a range of critical resources to investigate, through empirical research, the coproductionof legal and temporal norms, subjectivities and political ontologies. Inour related efforts to create an interdisciplinary network of scholars working onlaw and time,2 we have noted a distinct openness to questions of law, regulationand legality from social sciences and humanities scholars working on temporality, on the one hand (e.g. Adkins, 2012; Amoore, 2013; de Goede, 2015; Mitropoulos,2012; Opitz et al., 2015), and an incisive conceptual and methodologicalinterdisciplinarity among critical and socio-legal scholars, on the other (e.g. Cooper, 2013; Cornell, 1990; Craven et al., 2006; Douglas, 2011; Fitzpatrick,2013; Keenan, 2014; Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, 2013; Valverde, 2015; vanMarle, 2003). Critical approaches to linear time and attention to law's shaping oftime in diverse forms and through multiple techniques have animated researchacross disciplines. We hope that the present collection will highlight these sharedconcerns, fostering the cross-fertilisation of ideas and methods and furtherdeveloping conversations on law and time between socio-legal scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, historians and others