ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on some of the ways in which formal and informal law can be differently delimited in a geographical sense, using the frequently discussed concept of scale. It highlights the dynamism of scale and its consequent role in generating legal complexity, legal plurality, and the multiple axes of subjectification to law. Thinking about scale offers insight into the movement of law between sub-national to transnational and international spaces, and underlines the need for an expansive and mobile view of what law is, or might be. At the same time, it is necessary to keep a firm view of the fact that the onto-epistemological constitution of law occurs in subjective engagements with law as well as in the reflective and objectifying stance resulting in a mapped system. Application of scale is also often a change of perspective. The chapter concludes some comments about jurisdiction, which has recently been the subject of some critical attention.
