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Essay: Infinity Of Law, Ali Khan

Ali Khan

At a given point in time, law is finite and its constitutive norms can be mostly identified with certainty. Despite its finitude, however, law is also infinite because the number of future additions and subtractions to the legal system is incalculable. As a general matter, law faced with infinite causes and consequences opts for legally manufactured finitism. Concerned with contracts, decedent’s estate, patents, searches and seizures, and other areas of law, practical law requires finite facts and finite laws in order to structure transactions and resolve disputes. Practical law shuns the infinite and courts finitude. The principle of finitude, however, …