Die temporale Ontologie des Rechts

We assume that law only exists in the temporal interval that separates the legally relevant act from its legal consequences, and the law disappears again once the latter have occurred. Thus, the absolute Being-Ought of law as an omnipresent ‘legal field’, which is constantly generated by the metaphysics of law, is replaced by the assertion that law does not exist ‘in itself’, but is constantly reproduced again within the framework of the concrete, unique event. According to the temporal ontology of law, the original legal phenomenon is thus the legal event and law itself originally exists as a discrete set of singular legal events. This opens up a new field of research for phenomenology of law.