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social science subjects > geography > human geography > political geography > geography of law
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geography of law  

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  • Work on the geography of law focuses on the relationships of law and legal questions to the study of spatial phenomena. Initially developed by a community of scholars working across their respective disciplines, it took shape as a subdiscipline in its own right in the 1990s, usually referred to as legal geography, with a modest if growing presence in English language geography. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Law, Geography of]

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