Law, War, and the History of Time

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Law, War, and the History of Time — Balkinization:

I’ve posted a new paper on SSRN on a theme I’ve blogged about here and here: Law, War, and the History of Time. While I wrote this paper in the inter­est of mak­ing sense out of the 20th cen­tury his­tory of law and war, I think it helps with an early 21st cen­tury prob­lem: the very con­cept of “wartime,” with the implicit ideas that wars are bounded in time, and that there is some­thing out­side of “wartime” that is sup­posed to be nor­mal­ity, sim­ply no longer fits.

An inter­est­ing piece look­ing at law and his­tory in a dif­fer­ent way. Worth a read, I think.