Pseudolaw, failure, and alternative temporality

This article considers the role of failure in the strategies of people practicing ‘pseudolaw,’ an alternative model of law and of legal history that never succeeds in actual courts. I argue that the guaranteed failure of these strategies may be less important than the creative possibilities they offer pseudolaw adherents for generating an alternative temporal order in which a sense of grievance and powerlessness over the past is rectified in the present.