This chapter uses two narratives of legalities to capture distinctive profiles of juristocratic reckoning. The first narrative centers on a legality brimming with connotative power. Instead of relying on the direct, instrumental power of human rights, a group of Burmese activists draws upon the capacity of rights to change the way they feel about themselves and generate the momentum to inspire, encourage, and rally others to take up collective political action. Although their country has once more descended into widespread insurrections, some of these activists still carry hope for human rights as they fight back or flee into exile again. The second account is about “governing through contagion,” a legality afflicting state centralization over strategies of control of infectious diseases. The Singaporean state’s strategies to regulate contagion grew out of earlier epidemics and global circulations of capital, violence, and ideas and mutated according to the entanglements of relationships among humans, animals, microorganisms, and technologies. As humans comply with, resist, or otherwise interact with strategies of control, these relationships produce “inter/dysconnectedness” that expose, perhaps exacerbate, existing injustices. Although the two narratives reflect divergent experiences with law, both illustrate a nonlinear worldview, one in which human societies, law, legalities, and thus juristocratic reckonings develop cyclically and chronologically. In one narrative this chapter offers three coexisting perspectives on juristocratic reckoning that transcend the editors’ suggestions; in the other account it shows that a more expansive chronology and cast of actors can shape the way we understand moments of law as juristocratic reckoning. What we make of a moment of law depends on where we look for legalities, where we situate it, and how we appreciate their highs and lows.