Focusing on heirship property and legal access in Southwest Louisiana, Hannah’s work reveals how law and recovery co-produce vulnerability—and how legal geography can help us trace that entanglement.
#LegalGeography #DisasterRecovery #Property #AAG2025 #GradStudentAward #ClimateJustice
Her paper, "Bringing Legal Geography to Post-Disaster Recovery," offers a powerful account of how legal systems shape uneven recovery outcomes after climate disasters.
🏆 Huge congratulations to Hannah K. Friedrich (University of Arizona), one of two of this year’s Legal Geography Specialty Group Graduate Student Presentation Award winners at #AAG2025 in Detroit!
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Sharp, timely, and deeply grounded, Andrea’s work shows how private property claims shape and challenge national borders.
#LegalGeography #GradStudentAward #AAG2025 #Borders #Property #Territory
Her standout paper, "Who Owns the Border?: Contested Territorialities in the Arizona and Texas Borderlands", explores the legal geographies of property, territory, and federalism in the U.S. borderlands.
🏆 We're thrilled to announce that Andrea Lara-Garcia (UC Berkeley) is one of two winners of this year’s Legal Geography Specialty Group Graduate Student Presentation Award at #AAG2025 in Detroit
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Happening today at 4.10pm, Level 3, Room 330A - come by!
This picture shows the announcement of the Rickie Sanders Junior Faculty Award by the Award committee and Dr. Sarah Klosterkamp
Some exciting news: I’ve been awarded last night the Rickie Sanders Junior Faculty Award by the @geographers.bsky.social’s Feminist Geography Specialty Group at this year's AAG 2025 in Detroit!
The award honors intersectional and anti-racist contributions to geography scholarship #AAG2025 #geosky
A flier with imagery of the Earth and legal scales in the background says "legal and political geographies of international law AAG2025 hybrid panel 3/26/2025 at 12:50-2:10 pm ET 336 Level 3, Huntington Place. Panelists: Carl Dahlman, Chandra Shekhar, L. Delta Merner"
I'm convening this hybrid panel today at #AAG2025, come join!
"Panelists will speak to their understandings of the current moment in international law, and the hopes and frustrations international law offers to the suffering caused by armed conflict, genocide and rapid climate change."
In light of the upcoming @geographers.bsky.social conference, take a look at the many incredible co-editors of the journal! Our editorial team is comprised of those with a passion for critical geography, and work without compensation to keep ACME's commitment to #openaccess possible.
#AAG #AAG2025
Two days to go: this year‘s LGSG keynote will be delivered by Prof. Don Mitchell. Please come by at the annual meeting #AAG2025 #geosky @geographers.bsky.social ⤵️
Next on stage at @legalgeography.bsky.social #AAG2025 grad voices in the Lawscape session: Madalen Claire Benson with a presentation on „creative interventions into injunctions: the spatial politics of blockadia“ 🥳 ⤵️
We will host a #socialhour tonight at Greenwhich Pub Time, 130 Cadillac Square, Detroit - starting at 6pm. Feel free to come by! #AAG2025
… right now: Hannah Friedrich is taken it away with her presentation on „Bringing legal geography to post-disaster recovery“ ⤵️
Two more Legal Geography Grad Voices sessions to go at
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Still wondering how to start this year‘s AAG? Come by and join our lovely bunch of sessions, first starting at 10.10am ⤵️
Reminder: this is tomorrow! We hope to see you bright-eyed and bushy-tailed on the first day of our legal geography #aag!
Promotional image for the2024 AAG Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography, on a blue background with the AAG logo and three stars at the top. The cover of Shaina Potts's book Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire is on the right and a description of the book on the left.
Congratulations to Shaina Potts, whose book "Judicial Territory" has won the 2024 AAG Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography from @geographers.bsky.social!
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Looks like an interesting way to learn more about municipal planning, a great way to appease one's inner legal geographer!
Legal Geography Article of the Day: Lunstrum and Havice apply a classic legal geography argument to jurisdiction: "Considered technical and mundane—it is indeed both—jurisdiction is often left in the shadows to do its spatial splicing, at times uniting, and certainly ordering and regulating."
Legal Geography Specialty Group Sponsored Sessions. Graduate Voices in the Lawscape. Monday, March 24. Room: 358, Level 3, Huntington Place. Graduate Voices in the Lawscape 1: Land, Water & Food Systems, 10:10am-11:30am. Graduate Voices in the Lawscape 2: Challenging Borders and Boundaries, 12:50pm-2:10pm. Graduate Voices in the Lawscape 3: Legislative Landscapes, 2:30pm-3:50pm. Graduate Voices in the Lawscape 4: Housing and Community Planning, 4:10pm-5:30pm. AAG 2025, March 25-28, Detroit, MI. Background: Maps.
We're getting excited for next week's "Graduate Voices in the Lawscape" sessions at the @geographers.bsky.social conference! Come join us on Monday to see new work from rising legal geographers. And after, join us at Greenwich Time Pub for our legal geography social hour!
We love to see a legal-financial geography panel at the @geographers.bsky.social conference!
Today's featured legal geography publication: @bevclough.bsky.social and Henrietta Zeffert's "‘We Could Not Imagine Their Home Could Be Our Home’: Towards a Feminist Legal Geography of home." Read more about home, featuring a guest appearance by everyone's favorite geographer Doreen Massey #geosky
so excited for this talk!!
A picture of Don Mitchell is accompanied by the following text: American Association of Geographers 2025 Annual Meeting, Detroit. Legal Geography Specialty Group Keynote Lecture. Don Mitchell, Uppsala University, Sweden. Talk title: "Waming up the Bulldozers: Homelessness, Law and the Making of Maximally Unjust Cities." Talk abstract: The 2024 Supreme Court decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson is an object lesson in cruelty, allowing cities to punish homeless people simply for being homeless. This talk will place the trial precedents leading to Grants Pass in their historical context, examine the tortured reasoning of the majority's decision, and draw on Justice Sotomayor's stinging dissent. It will then analyze the ruling's legal, deadly cruelty in light of recent developments in justice theory, revealing how what is under construction in the USA is nothing less than maximally unjust cities. Date: March 27 (Thursday), 4:10pm-5:30pm, Room: 330a, Level 3, Huntington Place
Come join us to see our Legal Geography Keynote Lecture featuring Don Mitchell at AAG 2025 (on Thursday!)
What is legal geography? Legal geography explores legal practices and representations across ever-changing spaces, environments, cultures, states and economies, not just courtrooms and legal reasoning!
