1st Edition
Explorations in Legal Geography Law, Space and Regulation
By Mariana Valverde
Copyright 2026
114 Pages
by
Routledge
114 Pages
by
Routledge
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Addressing the issue of scale in governance, legal and extra-legal, the book draws on post-colonial studies, Indigenous geography and empirical and historical studies of the legal logics of Empire.
This book examines legal frameworks across six descending scales. Beginning with a global perspective centred on Global South viewpoints and globalisation critiques, it then explores imperial legal... Read more
Introduction, Chapter One: Empire as a Scale of Political and Legal Authority, Chapter Two: The Scale of the Nation-State, Chapter Three: The Scale of Local or Municipal, Chapter Four: The Scale of the Micro-Local, Chapter Five: The Scale of the Family Household, Chapter Six: The Scale of the Human Body, Conclusion.
Biography
Mariana Valverde is professor emeritus at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto.
