Making law, making place: lawyers and the production of space

In this paper, we develop a conceptual framework for theorizing the role of lawyers in legal geography research to foster better understandings of the processes and the people co-constituting space and law. We argue that the practice of law is missing from existing legal geography scholarship. Addin...

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Published in:Progress in human geography 2010-04, Vol.34 (2), p.175-192
Main Authors: Martin, Deborah G., Scherr, Alexander W., City, Christopher
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
America
Attorneys
Bgi / Prodig
Case studies
Conflict
Conflict resolution
Disputes
Evictions
Geodemographics
Geography
Georgia (U.S.A.)
Housing
Housing construction
Human geography
Land claims
Land use
Law
Lawyers
Legal studies
Parks & recreation areas
Prefabricated buildings
South Atlantic
Spatial analysis
United States of America
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Summary:In this paper, we develop a conceptual framework for theorizing the role of lawyers in legal geography research to foster better understandings of the processes and the people co-constituting space and law. We argue that the practice of law is missing from existing legal geography scholarship. Adding insights from legal studies and geography, we propose an agenda for research that places lawyers at the center of analyses of legal (and political) claims-making, particularly place-claims in land-use disputes. We illustrate our call with an example from a study of conflict over a manufactured housing park in Georgia.
ISSN:0309-1325
1477-0288
DOI:10.1177/0309132509337281