Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
1: Jane Holder and Carolyn Harrison: Connecting Law and Geography
2: Nicholas Blomley: From `What' to `So What': Law and Geography in Retrospect
3: Nick Jackson and John Wightman: The Spatial Dimension of Private Law
BOUNDARIES
4: David Delaney: Beyond the Word: Law as a Thing of this World
5: Leslie Moran: The Queen's Peace: Reflections on the Spatial Politics of Sexuality in Law
6: Tom Koch and [ ] Denike: Geography: The Problem of Scale, and Process or Allocation: The US National Organ Transplant Act of 1986, amended 1990
LAND
7: Patrick McAuslan: Freewheeling Uphill: Pedalling Downhill: Growing Pains in Developing a Land Market in China
8: Gareth Jones: Camels, Chameleons and Coyotes: Problematising the `Histories' of Land Law Reform
9: Georgette Poindexter: Idolatry of Land
PROPERTY
10: Sarah Whatmore: De/Re Territorialising Possession: the Shifting Spaces of Property Rights
11: Mark Blacksell: Property Restitution, Property Law and the Post Communist Transition in Germany's New Bundeslander
12: Christopher Rodgers: Agenda 2000, Land Use and the Environment: Towards a Theory of `Environmental' Property Rights
13: Corrine Davis: Property Rights, Urban Policy and the Law: Negotiating Neighbourhood Disputes in a Brazilian Shantytown
14: Jane Matthews Glenn and Veronique Belanger: Informal Law in Informal Settlements
NATURE
15: Camille Antinori: Governance and Resource Management in Mexico's Community Forestry Sector
16: Paul Street: Spaces of Diversity in Diverse Spaces
17: David Wilkinson: Conceptions of Environment in Law and Geography
18: Carolyn Harrison and Tracey Bedford: Environmental gains? Collaborative planning, planning obligations and issues of closure in local land-use planning in the UK
IDENTITY: PEOPLE, PERSONS AND PLACES
19: Michael Freeman: Only Connect
20: Orly Lobel: Family Geographies: Gobal Care Chains, Transnational Parenthood and New Legal Challenges in an Era of Labour Globalisation
21: Sandy Kedar: On the Legal Geography of Ethnocratic Settler States: Notes Towards a Research Agenda
CULTURE AND TIME
22: Laura Hatcher: Green Metaphors: Language, Land and Law in Takings Debates
23: Penny English: Space and Time: the Genius Loci of Ancient Places
24: Peter Kunzlik: From Local to Global - The Role of Geographical Isolation in Shaping Competition Law
KNOWLEDGE
25: Robert Goldstein: Putting Environmental Law on the Map: A Spatial Approach to Environmental Law Using GIS
26: Ray Harris: Earth Observation and Principles on Data
27: Elizabeth A. Kirk and Alison D. Reeves: Disciplinary Interactions: Ontological Commitments and Environmental Standard Setting

About the Author

Dr Jane Holder is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Laws, University College London Professor Caroline Harrison is Professor of Geography at University College London

Reviews

`The two editors - one a lawyer, the other a geographer - are to be congratulated on their collaborative venture and anyone interested in novel contexts surrounding either discipline will do well to examine the contents of this fascinating volume.'
International Journal of Law in Context