Description: This book brings together a wide range of scholarship on the relationship between law and geography. The editors synthesize and critique an interdisciplinary group of contributions to clarify the connections and provide a reference source for the future of the field.

Although both disciplines examine overlapping issues, there was little co-operation between legal and geographic research until social theory embraced the spatial turn in the 1980s. Central to this co-operation is the recognition that as space is socially produced, it is also riddled with power relations. The Legal Geographies Reader stands at the intersection of these converging trends.

The chapters are organized around geographic scale -- local, national, and global -- and each section includes an introductory essay contextualizing the selections and explaining their contribution. The topics covered include public space, local racisms and the laws, property and the city, state formation and legal concentration, environmental regulation, and globalization and law. The Reader also includes a comprehensive introduction and a conclusion looking to the future of research in the field.

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