Geographies of Law

The expression “geographies of law” has three connotations. Firstly, it denotes a cross-disciplinary field of research bringing together discrete perspectives to examine the legal-geographical nexus. Secondly, the expression points to the interdisciplinary project known as “legal geography” to assess how political power percolates geographical contexts and codes them through the law. Finally, it refers to the so-called normative spatialities (or “nomic settings”); social constructs like territory, place, and space become legally meaningful “by way of inscription or assignment of legal meanings”. This third denotation is consonant with the “spatial turn” that occurred in cultural geography in the late twentieth century.