Law

This volume explores the relationship between law and geography, especially with respect to taken-for-granted distinctions between the social and the material, the human and non-human, and what constitutes persons and things. As a genuinely reflective 'Law and Geography' project, this collection offers interdisciplinary inquiry, particularly in response to globalisation - of law, commerce, environmental change and society - which renders relations between the local and the global more significant. Because of the sheer expansiveness and complexity of both law and geography we use conceptual frames to structure this volume - boundaries, land, property, nature, identity (persons, peoples and places), culture and time, and knowledge. These frames cut across the various subdivisions of law and geography described above and provide a route into the various practical and theoretical deliberations on the interrelationship and interstices of law and geography which follow. The chapters are diverse in style, research methodology, and subject matter (organ transplants, lawn mowing, settler states, archaeological remains, shopping, gay nightclubbing, seeds, common space).
"The two editors are to be congratulated on their collaborative venture.A wealth of original research and ideas. This essay presents an excellent overview of conceptual links between law, geography and society. This volume without doubt represents the most comprehensive collection assembled to date of material linking law and geography."

International Journal of Law in Context Vol.

INTRODUCTION; 1. Connecting Law and Geography; 2. From 'What' to 'So What': Law and Geography in Retrospect; 3. The Spatial Dimension of Private Law; BOUNDARIES; 4. Beyond the Word: Law as a Thing of this World; 5. The Queen's Peace: Reflections on the Spatial Politics of Sexuality in Law; 6. Geography: The Problem of Scale, and Process or Allocation: The US National Organ Transplant Act of 1986, amended 1990; LAND; 7. Freewheeling Uphill: Pedalling Downhill: Growing Pains in Developing a Land Market in China; 8. Camels, Chameleons and Coyotes: Problematising the 'Histories' of Land Law Reform; 9. Idolatry of Land; PROPERTY; 10. De/Re Territorialising Possession: the Shifting Spaces of Property Rights; 11. Property Restitution, Property Law and the Post Communist Transition in Germany's New Bundeslander; 12. Agenda 2000, Land Use and the Environment: Towards a Theory of 'Environmental' Property Rights; 13. Property Rights, Urban Policy and the Law: Negotiating Neighbourhood Disputes in a Brazilian Shantytown; 14. Informal Law in Informal Settlements; NATURE; 15. Governance and Resource Management in Mexico's Community Forestry Sector; 16. Spaces of Diversity in Diverse Spaces; 17. Conceptions of Environment in Law and Geography; 18. Environmental gains? Collaborative planning, planning obligations and issues of closure in local land-use planning in the UK; IDENTITY: PEOPLE, PERSONS AND PLACES; 19. Only Connect; 20. Family Geographies: Gobal Care Chains, Transnational Parenthood and New Legal Challenges in an Era of Labour Globalisation; 21. On the Legal Geography of Ethnocratic Settler States: Notes Towards a Research Agenda; CULTURE AND TIME; 22. Green Metaphors: Language, Land and Law in Takings Debates; 23. Space and Time: the Genius Loci of Ancient Places; 24. From Local to Global - The Role of Geographical Isolation in Shaping Competition Law; KNOWLEDGE; 25. Putting Environmental Law on the Map: A Spatial Approach to Environmental Law Using GIS; 26. Earth Observation and Principles on Data; 27. Disciplinary Interactions: Ontological Commitments and Environmental Standard Setting