Response Essay: Temporal Variance, Hockey, and the Wartime Constitution

Authors

Dawinder S. Sidhu, University of New Mexico - School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2011

Abstract

In “Let ‘Em Play”: A Study in the Jurisprudence of Sport,1 Professor Mitchell Berman offers a thoughtful and engaging defense of the concept of temporal variance, the notion that “some rules of some sports should be enforced less strictly toward the end of close matches.” In support of his position, Professor Berman draws on various professional sports, including tennis, basketball, and baseball. Largely absent as a source of information or subject of the overall discussion is hockey, a sport with which Professor Berman acknowledges he is less familiar. The purpose of this response is to address my concerns with temporal variance, which stem from my appreciation for the enforcement of rules in hockey and for the role of the courts in wartime settings. These concerns may counsel the reader to reconsider the merits of temporal variance as a preferred or justifiable practice in sports or law.

Publication Title

Georgetown Law Journal Online

Volume

100

Issue

1

First Page

1

Recommended Citation

Dawinder S. Sidhu, Response Essay: Temporal Variance, Hockey, and the Wartime Constitution, 100 Georgetown Law Journal Online 1 (2011).
Available at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law_facultyscholarship/284