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Reparations And The International Law Origin Story, John Linarelli
Reparations And The International Law Origin Story, John Linarelli
Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity
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Bridges Of Law, Ideology, And Commitment, Steven L. Winter
Bridges Of Law, Ideology, And Commitment, Steven L. Winter
Touro Law Review
Law has a distinctive temporal structure—an ontology—that defines it as a social institution. Law knits together past, present, purpose, and projected future into a demand for action. Robert Cover captures this dynamic in his metaphor of law as a bridge to an imagined future. Law’s orientation to the future necessarily poses the question of commitment or complicity. For law can shape the future only when people act to make it real. Cover’s bridge metaphor provides a lens through which to explore the complexities of law’s ontology and the pathologies that arise from its neglect or misuse. A bridge carries us …