ABSTRACT
This chapter divided into four parts they are the next section, mapping the city, mapping the world, presents the historical and theoretical background for juxtaposing law and cartography. It examines the study of the spacing law and politics in the emerging nation-state and the struggles between regional and central powers, representing competing machines of capture and striation of space, manifested in attempts to deterritorialise and reterritorialise juridical space. The connection between the cartographic revolution in the early modern and modern periods and the emergence of a new understanding of both juridical space as defined by national territory and apparition of places for adjudication separate from other political and civic institutions. The chapter describes analogy between cartography and law in this very direction: investigating what maps can tell us about law and justice and how cartography both as discourse and as social institution has affected law.
