ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that academic travel is a ubiquitous practice in the ‘backstage’ of transnational law, and that this practice impacts legal academia in a multitude of ways. It breaks these down into three loose categories: (1) imagined geographies; (2) subjectivity; and (3) political economy. In each of these ways (and undoubtedly more), academic travel shapes our understandings of ourselves and our world, redrawing transnational geographies, constructing transcultured practitioners and entrenching academic class hierarchies.
