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Legal Geographies, Caroline Griffith, Sarah Klosterkamp, Alida Cantor, Austin Kocher
Legal Geographies, Caroline Griffith, Sarah Klosterkamp, Alida Cantor, Austin Kocher
Geography Faculty Publications and Presentations
This encyclopedia entry defines and discusses legal geography. Legal geography is an interdisciplinary area of scholarship that focuses on the intersections and co-constitution between law and space and place: that is, how law and legal processes produce space/place, and how particular places in turn influence law. Rather than thinking of law as an abstract, universal, a-spatial set of rules, legal geography examines the ways in which law is situated in place, and how places are shaped by legal practices and processes.