ABSTRACT
Cyberspace provides a context for the layering of fantasies upon earlier fantasies, the competition of one fantasy with another and the echoing of one fantasy, desire by another. This chapter discusses how foregrounding Henri Lefebvre's distinctive articulation of space can provide a better understanding of the modern socio-spatial phenomenon and a more robust theory of justice. Law and justice are intimately implicated in socio-spatial dynamics; for example, when imposing and refraining from imposing regulation in relation to the design, size, materials and location of the built environment. Interaction between the law and spatial imagery is a developing area of importance not least of all because the extent to which the prevailing culture either perpetuates or mitigates injustice can act as justification for intervening or intruding on space. The construction of legal space is implicit in ideas of, for example, the ‘province’ of law and law’s ‘empire’, the legal profession resists acknowledging the spatiality of social life.
