Research Handbook on Legal Geography

Name: Research Handbook on Legal Geography
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781035349890
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Author: Alex Jeffrey; Sarah Klosterkamp
ISBN: 9781035349890

Edited by Alex Jeffrey · Sarah Klosterkamp

Coming Soon Edward Elgar Publishing Available September 2026

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ISBN-13: 9781035349890
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: September 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

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Introduction to the Research Handbook on Legal Geography 1: Alex Jeffrey and Sarah Klosterkamp; PART I SETTING THE SCENE: LAW, POLITICS AND SPACE; 2.
Introduction to Part I: setting the scene – law, politics, and space 17: Sarah Klosterkamp; 3.
The other splice: searching for legal geography 20: Luke Bennett; 4.
Geographies of international law and diplomacy 31: Fiona McConnell and Alex Manby; 5.
Embodiment: legal geographies of scale, time, and activism 43: Francesca Moore; 6.
Grounds for engagement: toward a shared project for legal and economic geographers 54: Reecia Orzeck and Laam Hae; 7.
The two empires of good and evil: property and mobility 65: Nicholas Blomley; PART II MATERIAL GEOGRAPHIES OF LAW; 8.
Introduction to Part II: material geographies of law 77: Alex Jeffrey; 9.
“Behave as if you’re in the room...even though you’re not!”: remote hearings and changing court materialities 81: Jo Hynes; 10.
Ambiguous legalities of camp geographies: Temporary spatial-material-juridical formations of settler-colonialism’s archipelago of camps 92: Irit Katz; 11.
Psychopower, psychoscapes and the legal geographies of coded worlds 105: Jae Page; PART III LEGAL GEOGRAPHIES OF PROPERTY, HOUSING AND UN-HOMING; 12.
Introduction to Part III: legal geographies of property, housing, and un-homing 117: Sarah Klosterkamp; 13.
Toward a legal geography of urban squatting: some critical reflections1 121: Alexander Vasudevan; 14.
Warming up the bulldozer: homelessness, law, and the making of maximally unjust cities 133: Don Mitchell; 15.
Regulating domestic dimensionality: space standards and the ‘art of right living’ 148: Ella Harris and Phil Hubbard; 16.
Geopolitics of land tenure in the territorial governance of occupation 162: Vera Smirnova; 17.
Teaching critical legal geographies of home and the fight for home 174: Katherine Brickell; PART IV LEGAL GEOGRAPHIES OF MIGRATION; 18.
Introduction to Part IV: the legal geographies of migration 187: Alex Jeffrey; 19.
Encountering the law: the provisionality of refugee protection in Denmark 192: Malene H. Jacobsen; 20.
Contradictions of ‘humane border enforcement’ policies in the United States, 2022–24 204: Sarah A. Blue, Elizabeth Chacko, Marie Price, Jennifer Devine, Caroline Miles and Carla Angulo-Pasel; 21.
Legal geographies of asylum law: categories, cartographies and countertopographies 216: Anna Pearce; 22.
Countermapping doctrine: legal geographies of refugee law 227: Jess Hambly; 23.
The ambivalent legal geographies of the Balkan Route 240: Claudio Minca and Lorenzo Vianelli; PART V (FEMINIST) LEGAL GEOGRAPHIES OF (IN)JUSTICE; 24.
Introduction to Part V: (feminist) legal geographies of (in)justice, violence and policing 252: Sarah Klosterkamp; 25.
Feminist legal geographies: examining institutional responses to interpersonal violence 255: Dana Cuomo; 26.
Feminist geo-legal archaeology and U.S. asylum law 265: Cynthia S. Gorman; 27.
Performing ‘safety-talk’: understanding the role of Community Safety Officers in the regulation of homeless encampments in Maple Ridge, BC: (Canada) 276; Terri Evans; 28.
Making visible the legal geographies of (in)justice 294: Alexandra Flynn and Marie-Eve Sylvestre; PART VI MORE THAN HUMAN LEGAL RELATIONS – LEGAL GEOGRAPHY RESEARCH ON RIGHTS OF NATURE; 29.
Introduction to Part VI: more than human legal relations – legal geography: research on rights of nature 312; Alex Jeffrey; 30.
Legal geographies of water: contesting hydrosocial imaginaries in the: Western United States 317; Thien-Kim Bui and Alida Cantor; 31.
Loko i‘a restoration: indigenous aquaculture, food sovereignty, and: Cclimate resilience in Hawai‘i 329; Adele Balderston; 32.
Producing spaces of killability: The legal geographies of (sub)urban: wildlife management 342; John P. Casellas Connors; 33.
Tracing heirship property in post-disaster Louisiana 352: Hannah K. Friedrich