The projects were 'The administration of justice in Europe and the evaluation of its quality', financed by the Agis programme of the European Union, 'Case Assignment to courts and within courts', financed by the Dutch Ministry of Justice and 'Internal case allocation in courts' financed by the Netherlands Council for the Judiciary. The preparation of this article has been supported by a fourth research project, 'The quality of justice in Europe: policies, results and institutional settings' funded by the

Law has had a traditional reference to land, conceived as territory, in the notion of a jurisdiction, where the law of the land applies equally to all individuals. Recent critiques of this view have suggested that a plurality of laws may apply in particular places. How this spatial pluralism impacts on dominant views of law is considered through two instances in which law has interacted with competing conceptions of place and territory in relations between European and Indigenous Australians. Space, law and identity are seen to constitute each other in complex forms. Indigenous beliefs and practices challenge the claims to universality of Western conceptions of law and space deriving from Roman law and spatial practices. Disciplines Law Publication DetailsThis article was originally published as Mohr, R, Law and identity in spatial contests, National Identities, 5 (1) Laws, Space and Identities

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