ABSTRACT
This chapter tries to make a case for the careful enquiry into the normative significance of time and space as a way of gaining a better understanding of the legal itself. The law's chronology refers to the assumption shared by the participants in those legal communities of the possibility to grasp and control time, to synchronize the imaginary temporality of the normative world with the time of the real world. The law's chronology refers firstly to the ability to define the temporal limits of the (legal) community. This tacit chronology of the legal answers the very question of the calculability of time in norms at a foundational level, at the very jurisgenerative moment of the emergence of the legal system. The study of legal topology takes centre stage alongside the study of all shared normative experiences, not as the study of the impact of State law on people's perceptions of space.
