LAW 642 - Law and Geography Seminar

Credits: 2
Description: 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.