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The Legal Geographies Reader: Law, Power and Space
This timely Reader brings together, for the first time, key writings on the relation between law and geography in an effort to clarify the connections between these two increasingly complex concepts.
352 pages, Paperback
First published February 15, 2001
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March 5, 2009
This book examines the ways in which space, place, and scale interact with formal law. It covers three broad rubrics...
1. Legal Places
-public space
-local racisms
-property and the city
2.National Legalities
-state formation
-environmental regulation
3. Globalization and the Law
While many of the articles were interesting in this book and the first section covers some of the standard legal geography themes and literature, I think that this book could have undergone a substantial organizational edit. For example, why is it important to insert a section on Bedouin land rights in a section called "Property and the City"... that's stretching. The last section on globalization seemed especially weak to me. I would have like to see more clear synthesis of the ways in which globalization is reciprocally affecting legal processes... human rights, development, international environmental law, genocide, financial markets, etc.
A missing section could have done a thorough treatment of the differences between formal law and legally pluralistic situations. Another missing section could have given overview to property law (which the environmental regulation section just barely nudged into).
1. Legal Places
-public space
-local racisms
-property and the city
2.National Legalities
-state formation
-environmental regulation
3. Globalization and the Law
While many of the articles were interesting in this book and the first section covers some of the standard legal geography themes and literature, I think that this book could have undergone a substantial organizational edit. For example, why is it important to insert a section on Bedouin land rights in a section called "Property and the City"... that's stretching. The last section on globalization seemed especially weak to me. I would have like to see more clear synthesis of the ways in which globalization is reciprocally affecting legal processes... human rights, development, international environmental law, genocide, financial markets, etc.
A missing section could have done a thorough treatment of the differences between formal law and legally pluralistic situations. Another missing section could have given overview to property law (which the environmental regulation section just barely nudged into).
November 30, 2013
The Legal Geographies Reader is a compelling compilation of essays that discuss law and its interaction with society. These essays provide social contexts to laws and trends in society, providing a foundation to the multifaceted, spatial aspects of power and law.
There are essays that look at the complicated layers of jurisdiction (cultural, local, national, global); the frustrations of the property rights movement; rented homes and their ties to self-identity and commodification; the identity of women as dictated by automobiles and law; in addition to other topics, such as globalization.
Overall, the book interweaves law, space, and society. These essays provide an engaging framework that prompt a discussion of laws and the oppression of certain peoples as a result. The book overall asks critical questions of laws society enforces, and laws that enforce society.
There are essays that look at the complicated layers of jurisdiction (cultural, local, national, global); the frustrations of the property rights movement; rented homes and their ties to self-identity and commodification; the identity of women as dictated by automobiles and law; in addition to other topics, such as globalization.
Overall, the book interweaves law, space, and society. These essays provide an engaging framework that prompt a discussion of laws and the oppression of certain peoples as a result. The book overall asks critical questions of laws society enforces, and laws that enforce society.
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