Judicial Territory

"In Judicial Territory, Shaina Potts draws on work across the social sciences to document and describe how a series of incremental changes in United States judicial authority has expanded and empowered US empire by enabling the court system to adjudicate disputes over larger and larger areas of territory. Law, Potts argues, cannot be omitted from conversations about capitalism and empire. Instead, she introduces the term "judicial territory" to describe how legal systems exercise authority over space and across geographic territory, and interrogates legal narratives and practice to…