The place of law
By: edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey.
Contributors: Sarat, Austin.; Douglas, Lawrence.; Umphrey, Martha Merrill.
Series: The Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Law -- Methodology.; Exterritoriality; Jurisdiction; International and municipal law.
Description: "The essays in The Place of Law speak to the role of place in our understanding of law. The contributors treat place as more than geographical fact - calling attention to the ways in which localized cultures are expressed in legal norms, inquiring about new spaces within which legal authority is being deployed, and examining the interactions between law and the process of globalization.

This volume sheds new light on the ways in which law defines territory and its boundaries, both literally and conceptually. The contributors highlight law's spatial aspects and the legal regulation of space, revealing that law lives most vividly not within its majestic embodiments, but in the realm of the ordinary."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Where (or what) is the place of law? / Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey; title: Time against territoriality : national laws and literary translations / Wai Chee Dimock; title: The empty place : legal formalities and the cultural state / Annelise Riles; title: The architecture of authority : the place of law in the space of science / Susan S. Silbey and Patricia Ewick; title: Digital networks, state authority, and politics / Saskia Sassen; title: The place of cyberlaw / Lawrence Lessig; title: Against cyberspace / Richard Ford.