Abstract
Legal geography, a highly fragmented subfield, is defined by formal attention to the spatial aspects of law and the legal dimensions of space and place. (Indeed, one may easily write of legal geographies.) Most work in the area concerns issues of jurisdiction, property, public/private space, race, and/or rights, although there is considerable variation in how these concepts are addressed. The majority of research is on common law systems, particularly in the United States, although there is a degree of attention to non‐Western and informal legal systems as well. The scholarship on legal and geographic issues outside common law systems and in the developing world tends to be categorized as legal anthropology or sociology, with relatively weak disciplinary links to geography. This separation, however, is generally institutional rather than intellectual, and there are numerous opportunities for greater cross‐disciplinary work. Much of the scholarship in legal geography is from a critical perspective, seeking to challenge established legal (or sociolegal) practices and to highlight the inequalities created or reinforced by and through them.
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