Abstract

The idea that the law is destined to free itself more and more from the territory has been a common place of the last decades. It captured a real process, but also hid an ideological nucleus: a sort of naïve philosophy of history, according to which humanity would be destined to pass from the “small homogeneousµ to the “boundless shapelessµ. Today the problem emerges in new, more realistic terms. To analyze reality we need to rethink the structuring function of the space-law relationship: both because we are now facing a movement of “de-globalizationµ, and because the powerful rising of the welding anomic effects between globalism and neoliberalism.