  Quantum gravity's suggestion that spacetime may be emergent and so only exist
contingently would force a radical reconception of extant analyses of laws of
nature. Humeanism presupposes a spatiotemporal mosaic of particular matters of
fact on which laws supervene; primitivism and dispositionalism conceive of the
action of primitive laws or of dispositions as a process of `nomic production'
unfolding over time. We show how the Humean supervenience basis of non-modal
facts and primitivist or dispositionalist accounts of nomic production can be
reconceived, avoiding a reliance on fundamental spacetime. However, it is
unclear that naturalistic forms of Humeanism can maintain their commitment to
there being no necessary connections among distinct entities. Furthermore,
non-temporal conceptions of production render this central concept more elusive
than before. In fact, the challenges run so deep that the survival of the
investigated analyses into the era of quantum gravity is questionable.
