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We are looking for one more strong paper to complete a double paper session. American Association of Geographers 2015 CFP: Law, Geography, and Human and more-than-Human Environments Chicago, IL April 21-25, 2015 The law is one of the key institutions through which humans’ relations with all types of environments are mediated, constructed, and performed. Moreover, it is also one of the key fora in which anthropocentric discourses separating human from nature are reproduced. Given the powerful ways legal institutions and practice influence human interaction with built environments and biosystems, research exploring the law-environment nexus in and across a variety of contexts remains essential. We invite papers for this session that explore such topics as: - The nature of human-environment relations under legal discourses - How the mundane practices of law influence human understandings or experiences of a variety of environments. - The power of regulatory logics as spaces for environmental transformation - The ability of legal institutions to neutralize, naturalize, or operationalize various social, cultural and/or political projects in environments - The relationships among law, planning, and the environments and ecosystems humans impact. Accordingly, this panel not only welcomes papers that are firmly in the environmental law/environmental management tradition, but also those that consider how law is implicated in a host of relations between humans and all nature of environments including urban and rural. Interested contributors should contact [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> and submit abstracts by October 31, 2014. John Carr, J.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Geography and Environmental Studies University of New Mexico http://geography.unm.edu/