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lawscape

lawscape noun: a notional landscape of law; legal systems understood in spatial terms.

Noun

lawscape (plural lawscapes)

  1. A notional landscape of law; legal systems understood in spatial terms.
    • In effect, what we see in a landscape is not a detached and separated physical realm, 'the land', but ourselves, our practices and our law – a lawscape.2010, Nicole Graham, Lawscape: Property, Environment, Law, page 5
    • Lawscapes often slide next to each other and generate each other through folded withdrawal. Reorienting the lawscape in relation to other lawscapes is part of the political potential of the lawscape.2014, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Spatial Justice: Body, Lawscape, Atmosphere, page 84

Forms of lawscape

plurallawscapes

Origin of lawscape

From law + -scape.

Questions about lawscape

What does lawscape mean?
Lawscape means a notional landscape of law; legal systems understood in spatial terms.
What part of speech is lawscape?
Lawscape is a noun.
What is the plural of lawscape?
The plural of lawscape is lawscapes.

Words near lawscape in the dictionary

  1. laws of majestas
  2. laws of nature
  3. laws of war
  4. laws unto themselves
  5. laws-a-mercy
  6. lawscape
  7. lawscapes
  8. LAWSes
  9. Lawshall
  10. lawsome
  11. lawson

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