Workshop “Geographies of the law. Inquiries into the space-law tangle “

Geographies of the law. Inquiries into the space-law tangle

Overview Programme

13 December

14.30 – 14.45 | Opening

14.45 – 16.00 | Keynote speech

Outlaw geographies – Nicholas Blomley (Simon Fraser University)

Critical legal geography is interested in the ways in which legal space excludes and marginalizes certain subjects. Drawing from several recent projects, I suggest the concept of ‘outlawry’ as a means by which we can conceptualize legal-geographic oppression and violence. Outlawry entails the designation of classes of people from whom some of the ordinary protections and benefits of law are withheld, placing them in a space of precarity in which they are subject to punishment by virtue of their membership in an outlaw class. Houseless and criminalized people are outlawed, as are Indigenous people, I demonstrate. Space is fundamental to outlawry: not only does it entail a metaphorical banishment, but it also works through geographies of relegation, denial, and violence.

16.00 – 18.30 | Parallel paper sessions 1

• Legal geographies of spatial regulation (I)
• Legal geographies of housing
• Legal geographies of violence and rights

14 December

9.00 – 10.30 | Parallel paper sessions 2

• Legal geographies of spatial regulation
• The Land Regime of the Territories Occupied by Israel: A Critical Legal Geography of The West Bank, 1967-2017
• Legal geographies of the pandemic crisis

11.00 – 13.00 | Parallel paper sessions 3

• Legal geographies of gender and sex
• Theoretical reflections on the law-space tangle
• Legal geographies of the environment

14.30 – 16.00 | Parallel paper sessions 4

• Legal geographies of spatial regulation
• Methodological reflections on the law-space tangle
• Legal geographies of the pandemic crisis

16:30 – 18:30 | Parallel paper sessions 5

• Legal geographies of spatial regulation
• Theoretical reflections on the law-space tangle
• Legal geographies of migrations

18.30 – 18.40 |  Closing

The detailed programme and the books of abstracts are available at: https://bit.ly/GeoLaw_book-abstracts

Free online attendance is possible upon registration. Registration is required by December 12 at: https://forms.gle/U8pEBF4L5JTUrDMH8

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The symposium is organised by

Francesco Chiodelli (University of Turin);  Daniela Morpurgo (Politecnico di Torino); Giacomo Pettenati (University of Turin);  Cristina Poncibò (University of Turin).

With the support of

Collegio Carlo Alberto || Juris Diversitas || OMERO – Research centre for urban studies at the University of Turin || SIRD – Società italiana per la ricerca nel diritto comparato || Normactivity – Research network on human and non-human normativity