lawscape

English

Etymology

law +‎ -scape

Noun

lawscape (plural lawscapes)

  1. A notional landscape of law; legal systems understood in spatial terms.
    • 2010, Nicole Graham, Lawscape: Property, Environment, Law, page 5:
      In effect, what we see in a landscape is not a detached and separated physical realm, 'the land', but ourselves, our practices and our law – a lawscape.
    • 2014, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Spatial Justice: Body, Lawscape, Atmosphere, page 84:
      Lawscapes often slide next to each other and generate each other through folded withdrawal. Reorienting the lawscape in relation to other lawscapes is part of the political potential of the lawscape.
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