: Coordination Alice Bonzom, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Triangle UMR 5206 Simon Castanié, Centre Roland Mousnier UMR 8596 Nicolas Picard, Centre d’histoire du xix e siècle UR 3550 Benoît Saint-Cast, LARHRA UMR 5190 Verónica Vallejo Flores, Mondes Américains UMR 8168 Argument The temporality of justice is a topic that has not been explored much by social and law historians. Paradoxically, legal archives have more often been used to grasp the rhythms of ancient societies and the temporality of social practices [Voth, 2000] than to understand the relationship between justice and time. Yet the temporality of justice is no ordinary social and political time [Garapon, 1997]. Beyond the symbols and rituals that give majesty and authority to judgements, justice as a social activity has its own temporalities regulated by the law and the organisation of judicial work. The temporality of these actions is regulated by law and proceedings, which impose an order, deadlines and variable durations depending