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Rh environmental lawyers. Contributions have focused on the regulation of water, marine conservation, air pollution, fisheries and environmental noise. A few contributions stand out as taking space seriously. The first is an article by Maria Gaglia Bareli, Miranda Geelhoed, Louisa Parks, Elisa Morgera and Elsa Tsioumani, in which they study the effect of the rules of the common agricultural policy (CAP) on the livelihood of traditional goat pastoralists in Ikaria and their relationships with other inhabitants, as well as on the ecosystem of the island. A second example is the work by Jane Holder, one of the few EU lawyers explicitly interested in legal geography. In a range of articles, she critiques the EU’s commitment to ecological and spatial justice – laying the groundwork for a spatial understanding of one of the core questions that the EU will have to face: how to distribute the costs of the fight against climate change? A third example is provided by the articles by Kate Sowery and Arie Trouwborst. Sowery offers a rich conceptual engagement with the way in which EU law renders animals and the spaces they inhabit. Trouwborst, in a range of articles, critiques the EU’s framing of wolves and their habitat. Both authors provide excellent examples of the kind of questions a legal geographer would be interested in.

A fourth site that is receiving attention from EU lawyers is concerned with both space and time. This is a range of contributions that looks at the ‘forms of life’ that EU law allows for – with Loïc Azoulai’s work standing out. This work situates EU law (with a focus on free movement and citizenship law) within the places and spaces that frame the subject of EU law and imbue it with meaning. The focus on the nature and form of the social relationships that EU law engenders offers an important insight into both the constitutive and destabilising dynamics that EU law carries. While this frame – which is also implicit in the work of Païvi Neuvonen or Ségolène