Law, political economy, and the legal geography of money.
Sciences Po Paris, 25-26 June 2026.
Pieter-Augustijn Van Malleghem is organising an event at Sciences Po this June on the legal geography of money.
In recent years, scholars have shown renewed interest in the geography of money and finance. While economic geography has long examined how space shapes capitalism and its core/periphery dynamics, more recent work has turned to the spatial nature of money and finance. Globalization, for example, has famously been propelled by the rise of global financial centers, which has reconfigured the relationship between these centers and the sovereign states they inhabit, and has created new peripheries in the process. Likewise, spatial inequalities help explain how macroeconomic boom and bust cycle occurs. From the era of the Gold Standard to neoliberal globalization, monetary regimes have consistently structured the flow of money between different spaces,and accordingly co-constructed the significance of money as well as space. Despite this surge in interest for the geography of money and finance, the role of law in the geography of money and finance remains relatively underexplored. This conference seeks to foreground the constitutive role of space in critical legal and institutional engagements with the spatiality of capitalism. See the full call for papers here: legal-geog-money-2026.pdf
Abstracts are due by 12 April 2026. For further instructions, please see the full call for papers. Any questions can be directed to: pieteraugustijn.vanmalleghem@sciencespo.fr.