Legal spaces : towards a topological thinking of law

Law European Law Fundamentals of Law Humanities Interdisciplinary Studies Philosophy of law Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History sähkökirjat
Springer
2013
EISBN 9783642367304
This book is concerned with a central question in contemporary legal theory: how to describe global law? In addressing this question, the book brings together two features that are different and yet connected to one another: the conceptual description of contemporary law on the one hand, and methods of taking concrete perspectives on law on the other hand. The book provides a useful concept for describing global law: thinking of law spatially. It illustrates that space is a concept with the capacity to capture the relationality, dynamics, and hybridity of law. Moreover, this book investigates
