“… and if, in time, equity…”. An Exploration of the Time(s) of Equity Diagrammed through Image
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Anne Bottomley
Anne Bottomley (Emerita, School of Law, University of Kent) has taught and researched in the areas of property and equity and trusts for many years. Her publications include (ed. with Hilary Lim)
Feminist Perspectives on Land Law , and a number of papers (many with Nathan Moore) using film, art, architecture and music to explore and develop alternative approaches to critical theory and law.
Abstract
How can equity (in relation to common law) be thought or rather imaged? Drawing on Serres’s topographical account of time, it is suggested that equity carries (and contributes to law) accounts of time beyond the lineal timeframe familiar to common law, thereby enriching not only the temporal but also the spatial reach of law, a fundamental contribution to the development of sophisticated legal designs for property and commercial law serving early capital. The argument is traced in (teased out from) a Deleuzean use of image to diagram potentials for new engagements with thinking and practicing equity, a celebration of the role of the artisan (here as baker).
About the author
Anne Bottomley (Emerita, School of Law, University of Kent) has taught and researched in the areas of property and equity and trusts for many years. Her publications include (ed. with Hilary Lim) Feminist Perspectives on Land Law, and a number of papers (many with Nathan Moore) using film, art, architecture and music to explore and develop alternative approaches to critical theory and law.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Focus
- Equity and the Resources of Critique: Part I
- “Where the Shoe Pinches”: True Equity in Trollope’s The Warden
- Equity as a Question of Decorum and Manners: Conscience as Vision
- Millenaristic Equity. Theological Order and Legal Faith
- “… and if, in time, equity…”. An Exploration of the Time(s) of Equity Diagrammed through Image
- “From their Graves”: The Theme of Burial and the Work of the Modern Jurist in F. W. Maitland’s Equity also the Forms of Action at Common Law
- Research
- Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper: New Definitions of Human Dignity in Novel and Film
- Intertextuality and Parody of Law in The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien: a Literary and a Linguistic Reading
- Book Review
- Gary Watt: Shakespeare’s Acts of Will: Law, Testament and Properties of Performance
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Focus
- Equity and the Resources of Critique: Part I
- “Where the Shoe Pinches”: True Equity in Trollope’s The Warden
- Equity as a Question of Decorum and Manners: Conscience as Vision
- Millenaristic Equity. Theological Order and Legal Faith
- “… and if, in time, equity…”. An Exploration of the Time(s) of Equity Diagrammed through Image
- “From their Graves”: The Theme of Burial and the Work of the Modern Jurist in F. W. Maitland’s Equity also the Forms of Action at Common Law
- Research
- Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper: New Definitions of Human Dignity in Novel and Film
- Intertextuality and Parody of Law in The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien: a Literary and a Linguistic Reading
- Book Review
- Gary Watt: Shakespeare’s Acts of Will: Law, Testament and Properties of Performance
