{"id":604,"date":"2019-07-30T12:43:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T16:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/100-online\/the-internet-changed-everything-even-the-law-10\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:14:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:14:20","slug":"response-essay-temporal-variance-hockey-and-the-wartime-constitution","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/submit\/glj-online\/100-online\/response-essay-temporal-variance-hockey-and-the-wartime-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Response Essay: Temporal Variance, Hockey, and the Wartime Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/georgetownlawjournal.org\/articles\/let-em-play-a-study-in-the-jurisprudence-of-sport\/\">\u201cLet \u2018Em Play\u201d: A Study in the Jurisprudence of Sport<\/a><\/em>, Professor Mitchell Berman offers a thoughtful and engaging defense of the concept of temporal variance, the notion that \u201csome rules of some sports should be enforced less strictly toward the end of close matches.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 In support of his position, Professor Berman draws on various professional sports, including tennis, basketball, and baseball.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p>As it happens, I am a dedicated fan of hockey\u00a0 and, coincidentally, this sport seems to expose problems with temporal variance.\u00a0 Also, the idea that rules in sports should be enforced less strictly at certain moments of matches is not unlike the recurring and contemporary contention that the Constitution should not be strictly observed in times of war.\u00a0\u00a0 As it happens, I am also a professor of constitutional law with expertise\u00a0 and experience\u00a0 on the judicial enforcement of the Constitution in the post-9\/11 context.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 These concerns may counsel the reader to reconsider the merits of temporal variance as a preferred or justifiable practice in sports or law.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <em>Response Essay: Temporal Variance, Hockey, and the Wartime Constitution\u00a0<\/em>on <a href=\"https:\/\/heinonline.org\/HOL\/P?h=hein.journals\/gljon101&amp;i=1&amp;a=Z2VvcmdldG93bi5lZHU\">HeinOnline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0\u201cLet \u2018Em Play\u201d: A Study in the Jurisprudence of Sport, Professor Mitchell Berman offers a thoughtful and engaging defense of the concept of temporal variance, the notion that \u201csome rules [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":627,"featured_media":0,"parent":570,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-604","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":912,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/604\/revisions\/912"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}