The concept and application of paradox in law is the main focus of the chapter. Paradoxes abound in law: the paradox between its openness to new social issues and its corresponding closure with regard to its terminology, operation, self-image; or the paradox between the text of the law and...

I have a map which indicates clearly and beyond any doubt the way to Utopia. I start the journey with a survival kit of paradigmatic legalities, nominal legalities, and nervous ideals. However, the more I move into the uncartographied space, the more I realize that my survival kit is changing,...

In Le Guin's Earthsea Quartet, knowledge of the name of a thing or person guarantees control over their destiny. In a world where light and darkness co-exist and where dragons are an extension of humans, a name is the means with which one can achieve one's vision of the world. If utopia is the...

This book introduces a radically spatialised approach to knowledge creation and innovation. Reflecting on an array of European urban and regional developments, it offers an updated notion of milieu as the conceptual and material space of knowledge and innovation in line with the interpretative...

In this introduction to the edited collection 'Law and the City' by A. Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, a survey of the current literature of law and urban geography is sketched. Special emphasis is given to feminist legal geography, environmental law and space, body and the law and other critical...

A linguistic game of prepositions in order to define the following: 1. What is the Environment? What is 'environment' for environmental law? 2. How does the law react to the complexity of its environment? 3. How to take into account the ecological crisis within a rather narrow, anthropocentric...

The connection between actor, risk and science is analysed and a connection with the precautionary principle is performed along those lines. Risk is described as the projection of a specific temporal and spatial situation into the future. The relevance of calculation in any risk projection...

Issues of Integration are placed under a critical lens. The concepts of Globalization, Legal Transplants, Environmental Integration and Sustainable Development are studied with references to the complex context of the Caspian sea, but in ways in which can be seen as informative regardless of the...

This article aims to interrogate law's ambivalent relationship with urban space. It deals with the paradoxical relation between law and the city, visibility and invisibility, materiality and abstraction, and polis and metropolis. It builds on previous work on the lawscape, namely the priority of...