Author Archives: sdiamond

Legal Geography: Expanding spaces of law

New book from Stanford Press:

    Legal geography is a stream of scholarship that takes the interconnections between law and spatiality, and especially their reciprocal construction, as core objects of inquiry. Legal geographers contend that in the world of lived social relations and experience, aspects of the social that are analytically identified as either legal or spatial are conjoined and co-constituted. The legal geography scholarship highlights that nearly every aspect of law is either located, takes place, is in motion, or has some spatial frame of reference. In other words, law is always “worlded” in some way. Likewise, every bit of social space, lived places, and landscapes are inscribed with legal significance. Distinctively legal forms of meaning are projected onto every segment of the physical world. These meanings are open to interpretation and may become involved in a range of legal practices. Such fragments of a socially segmented world — the where of law — are not simply the inert sites of law, but are inextricably implicated in how law happens.

Braverman, Blomley, Delaney, & Kedar on Legal Geography.

S.E.C. Inquiry Into China Film Trade Unnerves Hollywood

An interesting crossover between two of my interests, securities law and Hollywood. The film business has been enjoying a renaissance overseas what with Bollywood and all. Of course China remains the ultimate new market for the industry. But the industry has to realize that without free speech or the rule of law it is not like moving into India. True cultural expression remains suppressed, just ask the Tibetans. And the reach of US securities law is long as this article on an investigation into possible bribery cases indicates.

S.E.C. Inquiry Into China Film Trade Unnerves Hollywood – NYTimes.com.