Abstract

The essay navigates the interdisciplinary relationship between law and space through the lenses of comparative law. It assumes that comparative law and geography share some common epistemological and methodological features which help us to explore the variables underlying spatial production. As a cultural competence, comparative law provides the logical scaffold whereby appropriation of space and assignment of meaning to real-world data take place. This process is particularly evident in the production of landscape and legal cartography, which both turn comparative law (and its cultural competence) into an ideo-logical space, unveiling the ideological role played by imagination in spatial production