Jalal Tarar & Shahbaz Tarar (University of London) have posted Batman and the Perpetual Rupture: Vigilantism, Redemption and the Postcolonial Crisis on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Legal orders persist not through their coherence but through their capacity to accommodate their own insufficiencies. Law does not sustain itself autonomously; it survives by deferring resolution, operating through mechanisms that exist beyond its formal structure. Sovereignty, in this framework, is not exercised through legal consistency but through strategic suspension, where governance relies as much on extra-legal interventions as on the juridical apparatus itself. This paper examines how law survives not despite its limitations but through them, sustaining itself by producing the very crises that necessitate its enforcement.