{"id":4531,"date":"2021-04-12T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=4531"},"modified":"2021-04-12T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T23:15:00","slug":"barrozo-on-law-in-time-legal-theory-and-legal-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2021\/04\/12\/barrozo-on-law-in-time-legal-theory-and-legal-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrozo on Law in Time: Legal Theory and Legal History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paulo Barrozo, Boston College Law School, is publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3794350&amp;dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_philosophy:of:law:ejournal_abstractlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Law in Time: Legal Theory and Legal History<\/a> in volume 31 of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities (2021).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Over a long period, simple societies achieved social stability as social stasis through normative inertia. Conversely, high-complexity societies achieve social stability as constant functional adaptation and axiological responsiveness through small quotidian and large occasional normative changes. To understand this is to begin to understand the question of law in time.<\/p>\n<p>This article outlines a theory of the nature and evolution of law that accounts for the way law operates over time to produce sociological stability out of a normative order. The theory is then presented as an extended argument about why legal history, especially of the grand narrative type, should reflectively adopt a general theory of this kind as part of its methodological commitments. A secondary argument presented here is that legal history itself\u2014 whether apologetic or critical, record-setting or sage, specific or sweeping\u2014plays facilitative roles in the stabilization of high-complexity societies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Download the article from SSRN at the link.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=HedgehogsFoxes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paulo Barrozo, Boston College Law School, is publishing Law in Time: Legal Theory and Legal History in volume 31 of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities (2021). Over a long period, simple&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[529,594,132],"class_list":["post-4531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-history","tag-legal-history","tag-legal-theory","tag-news"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pasVL2-1b5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4532,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531\/revisions\/4532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}