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1 year ago in Legal Theory By Daniel

Where do i find scholarship on how law and morals are shaped by space and time?

I'm interested in how legal and moral systems aren't universal—they're shaped by geography and historical moment. Who writes about this spatial and temporal bias of law?

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By Shubham Answered 4 months ago

Start with Harold Innis, who wrote about how communication technologies shape empires across time and space. For contemporary work, search for "legal geography" and "chronotopes in law" (borrowing Bakhtin's term). Journals like Law, Culture and the Humanities and The Journal of Legal Geography are good hunting grounds. The core insight: law isn't a Platonic form. It's rooted in specific places and moments.

 

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