LAW 342 - Law and Geography Seminar.

This course explores the relationship between law, geography and socio-legal structures, focusing particularly on law’s capacity for creating spaces and places and ability to alter the landscape. Topics may include the regulation of public space, colonization and the development of borders, relationships between property law and geographic tools such as cartography, surveys and grids, federalism and the scale of governance, and intersections with environmental law. Two hours. Fraley Not offered in 2014-2015.