Brewing Legal Times: Things, Form, and the Enactment of Law

210 Pages·2016·0.771 MB·English

by  Emily Grabham

BREWING LEGAL TIMES
Things, Form, and the Enactment of Law
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Brewing Legal Times
Things, Form, and the
Enactment of Law
EMILY GRABHAM
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Toronto Buffalo London
© University of Toronto Press 2016
Toronto Buffalo London
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ISBN 978-1-4426-4605-6
♾ Printed on acid-free, 100% post-consumer recycled paper with
vegetable-based inks.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Grabham, Emily, 1977–, author
Brewing legal times : things, form, and the enactment of law /
Emily Grabham.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4426-4605-6 (cloth)
1. Time (Law) – Philosophy. I. Title.
K579.T5G73 2016 340'.11 C2016-901648-X
This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Federation
for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Awards to Scholarly
Publications Program, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada.
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its
publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts
Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.
Funded by the Financé par le
Government gouvernement
of Canada du Canada
For Martina
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: “The Eagerness of Objects” 3
1 “Praxiographies” of Law and Time 21
2 Progression 49
3 A Likely Story 88
4 Transition 117
5 Balance 143
Epilogue: Apple Crates and Hinges 170
Bibliography 179
Index 191
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Acknowledgments
Thank you to the great number of people who have supported this
book.
Many people read chapters, and made them much better. My sin-
cere thanks go to the wonderful Donatella Alessandrini, Kate Bedford,
Emilie Cloatre, Davina Cooper, Judy Fudge, Hyo Yoon Kang, Andreas
Mihalopoulos-Philippopoulos, Martyn Pickersgill, Nick Piska, Flora
Renz, and three anonymous reviewers for the University of Toronto
Press for their careful and generous comments.
I have been carried along in the writing of this book by the warmth of
friends, colleagues, and kin: Donatella Alessandrini, Mehmet Altunat-
maz, Diamond Ashiagbor, Nicola Barker, Olivia Barker, Siân Beynon-
Jones, Susan Boyd, Doris Buss, Emilie Cloatre, Vicky Conway, Joanne
Conaghan, Davina Cooper, Carys Craig, Emma Cunliffe, Marieke de
Goede, Anisa de Jong, Stacy Douglas, Laurie Duggan, Nadine El-Enany,
Máiréad Enright, Luis Eslava, Ruth Fletcher, Judy Fudge, Mary
Gabrimichael, Sarah Gibbons, Finn Gibbons-Ford and his dad David,
Emily Haslam, Lois Harder, Zoe Harper, Lydia Hayes, Didi Herman,
Rosemary Hunter, Suhraiya Jivraj, Vinita Joseph, Sarah Keenan, Sarah
Lamble, Sonia Lawrence, Julie McCandless, Jeremy Marshall, Renisa
Mawani, Brigid Morris, Claire Mummé, Rose Parfitt, Nick Piska, Lucas
Platero, Barbara Prainsack, Erika Rackley, Sinéad Ring, Yvette Russell,
Sally Sheldon, Anastasia Tataryn, Mariana Valverde, Claire Young,
Matthew Weait, Toni Williams, and Ania Zbyszewska.
Thank you and big hugs to my siblings Jessica and Matthew, my
niece Charlotte, and my parents Sarah, Chris, and Diana. A warm hello
to the Bedfords and Holdsworths. Thank you to Olive, for bringing a
sense of perspective, and to Martina, Borka, and Celie for having been
there. Thank you so much to Kate Bedford for morning cups of coffee