Research Handbook on Legal Geography

This comprehensive Research Handbook explores the concepts, methods and empirical work that shape the field of legal geography. Bringing together interdisciplinary scholars, it examines how legal norms and institutions shape, and are shaped by, the organization of economic and social life.

Contributors address the discipline’s foundational principles of property, territory and sovereignty while engaging with contemporary issues such as urban governance, environmental regulation and transnational legal regimes. Referencing global case studies, chapters illustrate how various infrastructures influence spatial justice and configure landscapes of inclusion and exclusion to highlight how legal categories and procedures are unevenly enacted across space. Advocating for a dialogue between legal and economic geography, contributors sketch the grounds for sustained shared projects whereby law and geography are approached as mutually constitutive.

The Research Handbook on Legal Geography is an essential resource for scholars and students of environmental law and human geography. Practitioners and activists working in areas of governance and environmental regulation will also benefit from its analysis and recommendations.