Explorations in Legal Geography

Addressing the issue of scale in governance, legal and extra-legal, the book draws on post-colonial studies, Indigenous geography and empirical and historical studies of the legal logics of Empire.

Mariana Valverde is professor emeritus at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto.

Introduction, Chapter One: Empire as a Scale of Political and Legal Authority, Chapter Two: The Scale of the Nation-State, Chapter Three: The Scale of Local or Municipal, Chapter Four: The Scale of the Micro-Local, Chapter Five: The Scale of the Family Household, Chapter Six: The Scale of the Human Body, Conclusion.