Time is a Pandora's box that international lawyers have long been reluctant to fully open. Perhaps unwilling to tackle the complexities this elusive concept presents, or loath to confront past wrongs and future threats that might arise from the fabled box, international jurists have left core questions of time and international law largely underexplored. In so doing, however, they have overlooked time and temporality as useful analytical lenses through which to gain new and deeper understandings of international law as a discipline and governance system. After all, international law is entangled with time in various and multifaceted ways. International law does not simply exist in time, having its own past, present, and future. Rather, like law generally, international law is constantly being shaped, organized, and reconstructed by time, while also creating, embedding, and perpetuating temporal standards and understandings. Yet, whereas domestic law scholars have in recent decades devoted considerable attention to the complex time-law relationship, international lawyers have so far investigated this relationship in only a limited manner, focusing primarily on doctrinal and procedural questions, while leaving many theoretical issues unaddressed.

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关于时间：国际法的时间性与我们的历史时刻


时间是一个潘多拉魔盒，国际律师长期以来一直不愿意完全打开。也许是不愿意解决这个难以捉摸的概念所带来的复杂性，或者不愿面对过去的错误和可能从传说中的盒子中出现的未来威胁，国际法学家在很大程度上没有充分探索时间和国际法的核心问题。然而，在这样做的过程中，他们忽略了时间和时间性作为有用的分析镜头，通过这些镜头可以对作为一门学科和治理体系的国际法获得新的、更深入的理解。毕竟，国际法以各种多方面的方式与时间纠缠在一起。国际法不仅仅存在于时间中，有自己的过去、现在和未来。相反，就像一般的法律一样，国际法不断被时间塑造、组织和重建，同时也创造、嵌入和延续了时间标准和理解。然而，尽管近几十年来国内法学者对复杂的时间-法律关系投入了大量精力，但国际法学家迄今对这种关系的研究有限，主要关注教义和程序问题，而没有解决许多理论问题。