The long arm of the law: London's law firms in a globalising world economy

The 'geography of law' is an emerging subdiscipline within human geography. However, the 'geography of law firms' and their functional capabilities re mains strangely neglected in both producer-service and world-city literatur es. In this paper we begin to address these gaps by investigating the impor tance of London in the globalisation of law and the uneven nature of that g lobalisation. We focus upon why, how, and where leading London law firms ar e developing world-city office networks.