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Legal Imagery In The "Garden Of England", Eve Darian-Smith
Legal Imagery In The "Garden Of England", Eve Darian-Smith
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Ms. Darian-Smith explores the relationship between law and the
concept of "landscapes, "which she describes as the spatial imagery
through which law is conceived and from which it draws meaning.
She first defines the complex and historically rich concept of the
"garden image," both in general and as it is seen in (and by)
England, its people, and its surrounding political, cultural, and
spatial contexts. In general terms, the garden image is injected into
issues of environmental law. Further, she notes that the garden has
been a fluid, ever-changing concept for England's society and its
developing legal system. Specifically, Darian-Smith …