ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the interconnections between law and landscape by assessing the actions of lawyers as constituents of landscape. It shows that lawyers’ actions constitute and simultaneously are constituted by particular landscapes. The chapter assesses lawyers as a group that, like other professionals, have a specialized ability to shape and be shaped by landscapes. It focuses on how awareness of and attention to space shapes lawyers’ practices, or ‘lawyering’. The chapter utilizes the more specific concept of landscape to emphasize the embeddedness of lawyers, lawyering, and all actions within a ‘scene’ of socio-spatial relations. It suggests that law students a sense of their constituency in landscape and describes how students identified and interpreted their constituent role. The chapter describes a deliberate attempt to empower individual agents with self-awareness about their landscape actions. Measured against a standard of actual empowerment, we acknowledge the limitations of the exercise.
