Unearthing Cartojuridism
Maps are all around us. Maps not only inundate our reality, impel our direction, depict weather forecasts, provide demographic data, and distinguish electoral districts, but they also mark property boundaries, affirm state lines, represent territorial limits, provoke geopolitical crises, and sustain sovereign claims. These are all more or less well-known cartographic functions and have merited scrutiny, in varying degrees, from various disciplines. But the historically constituted intrinsic ties that bind maps and law, cartography and jurisdiction, the visual and the legal, are yet to receive sustained attention in legal scholarship.