WORKSHOP: New Perspectives in Legal Geography - at NSF - Fall of 2012

在过去的十年里，关于法律地理学各个方面的科学研究激增，其中包括人文地理学家和法律学者以及社会学家、犯罪学家和人类学家等人的工作。这一研究领域历来涉及围绕各种法律现象的空间和人类动态，包括财产、种族隔离和歧视、治安做法、监狱环境以及社会的其他相关方面(城市、家庭、边界等)。拟议的讲习班将通过探索关于空间性的几个新视角来推动法律地理学的研究。目前的重点是利用当代空间理论来扩展空间的概念，以包括意义、表征、话语和意识形态领域。在这方面，拟议的讲习班将鼓励在社会法律调查的新领域开展合作，包括环境、民权、移民、国际、惩罚、知识产权和劳动法。讲习班将汇集社会和空间科学家以及法律学者，讨论这些新观点，并探索解决这些问题的不同方法。这一讲习班提案的学术价值在于它有能力使一个新兴的跨学科社会科学和法律领域参与进来，并鼓励进一步的社会科学和空间科学理论，这可能会增进我们对法律的发展和实施的理解。讲习班将促进这一领域的初级学者的加入，并在改进法律培训和实践方面具有很大潜力。

The past decade has witnessed a surge of scientific inquiry on aspects of legal geography, including work by human geographers and legal scholars as well as sociologists, criminologists, and anthropologists, among others. This area of research has historically addressed the spatial and human dynamics surrounding various legal phenomena, including property, racial segregation and discrimination, policing practices, prison settings, and various other relevant aspects of society (urban, home, borders, etc.). The proposed workshop will advance the study of legal geography by exploring several new perspectives on spatiality. The present focus engages contemporary spatial theory to expand conceptions of space to include the domains of meaning, representation, discourse, and ideology. In this context, the proposed workshop will encourage collaboration in new areas of socio-legal inquiry, including environmental, civil rights, immigration, international, punishment, intellectual property, and labor laws. The workshop will bring together social and spatial scientists, and legal scholars, to discuss these new perspectives and to explore diverse methodological approaches to addressing such issues. The intellectual merit of this workshop proposal rests on its ability to engage an emerging field of interdisciplinary social science and the law, and to encourage further social and spatial science theory that might enhance our understanding of the development and implementation of law. The workshop will promote the inclusion of junior scholars in this area, and has great potential for improving the training and practice of law.