W. Wesley Pue, Urban
Geography (1990) 11, 6, 566-585 (special issue edited by Gordon L.
Clark and Nick Blomley)
Wrestling with Law: (Geographical)
Specificity vs. (Legal) Abstraction
W. Wesley Pue, Urban
Geography (1990) 11, 6, 566-585 (special issue edited by Gordon L.
Clark and Nick Blomley)
Wrestling with Law: (Geographical)
Specificity vs. (Legal) Abstraction
ABSTRACT
This article provides a preliminary reaction to developing work in the field of law and geography from the point of view of a legal academic. Geographical research touching on law is assessed in the context of a discussion of current trends in legal thought and legal scholarship. It is argued that legal scholarship in the 1990's is receptive to interdisciplinary influences in a way which is unprecedented in the past century and that geographers can consequently hope to significantly affect the research agendas of legal academics as well as of other social scientists. A discussion of existing work in "geo-jurisprudence" reveals that geographers bring a considerably more sophisticated conceptualization of "law" and "legality" to bear in their research than do most legal scholars. This is seen as having potentially revolutionary effects in legal education and in the world affected by state law. It is argued that the potential of geography as insurgency should be warmly embraced by legal scholars.
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