Law and geography

Cristy Clark, John Page

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Abstract

Legal geography explores the interconnections between law and space, a field of study that relates law to context, while simultaneously revealing geography’s legal footprints. The rich interconnections between law and space, and the diverse ways that each co-inform and co-constitute the other are legal geography’s ‘core objects of inquiry’.¹ In this chapter, we observe how this area of scholarship has evolved over nearly three decades, beginning in the mid-1990s, a generational confluence of law and geography that is neither a ‘sub-discipline of human geography nor […] an area of specialized legal scholarship’ but rather (or, at least) ‘a truly interdisciplinary...
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLaw and humanities
EditorsRussell Sandberg, Daniel Newman
PublisherAnthem Press
Chapter5
Pages69-86
Number of pages18
ISBN (Electronic)9781839990380
ISBN (Print)9781839990366
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2024

Publication series

NameAnthem Law and Society Series
PublisherAnthem Press

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