Law and Spatio-Temporal Dimensions

Giovanni Bombelli is Full Professor at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan where he teaches Philosophy of Law, Introduction to Philosophy of Law and Legal Methodology and Informatics. He has published and edited books and essays on the Western notion of "community", the epistemological-cognitive roots of law, the reticular paradigms of the legal sphere, the multicultural issue and the relation between law and literature. Among his writings, the books “Comunitarismo” e “comunità”: un percorso critico-esplorativo tra filosofia e diritto (2010), Un ordine inquieto: koinonia e comunità “radicata”. Profili filosofico-giuridici (2013) and Diritto, comportamenti e forme di “credenza” (2017)Paolo Di Lucia is full professor at the University of Milan (Italy) where he teaches Philosophy of Law. He has published numerous books and essays and edited volumes on topics related to the philosophy of law, social ontology, the philosophy of normative language, and deontic logic. Among his most recent writings is the book Hans Kelsen. Giustizia, diritto e realtà sociale (Hans Kelsen. Justice, Law and Social Reality), co-authored together with Lorenzo Passerini Glazel (2024). Together with Passerini Glazel, he also edited the Italian translations of Hans Kelsen’s posthumous volume, Secular Religion (2014) and John R. Searle’s unpublished lectures, The Basic Reality and the Human Reality (2019).Paolo Heritier is Full Professor of Philosophy of Law at DIGSPES of the University of Eastern Piedmont. At the University of Turin, he teaches Legal-anthropological Philosophy, Law and Film, Legal clinics on Disability. He co-directs the journal Theory and Critics of Social Regulation, the series of Aesthetics and Legal Anthropology and Anthropology of Freedom, is a researcher at ISEAS Kyoto and a member of the scientific committee of numerous journals and series. He has published two volumes of Legal Aesthetics (2012) and The Dignity Disabled (2014), The Screen of Law (4 volumes, 2025), and a hundred articles in Italian, English, and French.Paolo Silvestri is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Catania. His research lies at the intersection of legal and economic philosophy, with particular focus on liberty, liberalism, institutions and good government; markets, morals and regulation; tax justice; institutions of fiscal subsidiarity. He has taught and conducted research at leading international universities, is the author of six books and nearly one hundred scholarly publications, serves on several scientific committees and editorial boards of journals and series, and has received several international research grants and fellowships. Among his books: (with B. Walraevens) The Political Economy of Good Polity. Adam Smith’s Revolution (2026: forthcoming); (critical edition) L. Einaudi, On Abstract and Historical Hypotheses and on Value judgments in Economic Sciences (2017); Economia, diritto e politica nella filosofia di Croce. Tra finzioni, istituzioni e libertà (2012).Silvia Zorzetto is Full Professor of Philosophy of Law at the Faculty of Economics and Law of Telematic Pegaso University (Naples, Italy). With a background in law and economics, her research in general jurisprudence focuses on the analysis of legal concepts and legal reasoning, as well as on interdisciplinary topics such as the precautionary principle, risk, BES, nudges, and legisprudence. She is the author of numerous publications in Italian, English, and Spanish, and has published the following books: La ragionevolezza dei privati (2008), La norma speciale (2010), Repetita iuvant (2016), Concepto de riesgo y principio de precaución (2018), and Precedenti giudiziari e argomentazione (2024). She serves on several scientific, steering, and editorial boards of national and international journals and book series, and research centres.

• Introduction.- Remarks on the Existence of Laws over Time.- Retrospective Normativity. On the A Posteriori Genesis of Norms.- Legal Norms in Space: Revisiting Kelsen’s Spatial Sphere of Validity of Norms.- The Normative Dimension of Kelsen’s Concepts of Causality and Retribution.- Premeditation, Negligence, and the Differences of Having or Lacking a Plan.- Time and obedience. Recent challenges for legal normativity.- The “Despatialization of Justice” in Antoine Garapon's Reading.- Law as a “Between”. A Spatio-temporal and “Institutional” Perspective.- Rhythm and Law. Performance and Positivisation as Normative Experiences.- A Planetary Law at the Right Time.- The Art of Kairos: Crafting Arguments for the Right Time and Place in Law.- Past, pastness and the broad present: changing images of time in legal history.- The Historical Dimension of Values: The I-Work Relationship in Wilhelm Schapp’s Philosophy of Law.- Norms as a Place. Indigenous conceptions of Land, Art, and Law in Australia.- Relational Space and Synchronic Temporality in Chinese Legal Culture. The Notion of Rén and Lǐ as Fundamental Criteria of the Normative Dimension.- Dilations, Compressions, Translations: the Spatio-Temporal Declination in the Ecological Planning of the Law.- “Turn it off, the Mass is over”. The web as a liturgical "space" in the post-Covid era.- Antonio's Debt to Shylock: On its Space-Time Worm(s) and those of Comparable Ontological Puzzles.- Law-following AI: Two Questions on Space and Time.