An introduction to historical studies of law and space, this course will cover themes such as legal histories of colonization and the corporation, emergency, legal geographies of national spaces, frontiers and urbanism, the constitution of public and private property, and bodily space. In addition, the class will consider methodological reflections on jurisdictions, temporality, scale, and place-making for historians. Readings will be cross regional and comparative but focus on colonization in Asia, Africa, and North America. Open to students of anthropology, geography, and law.