Legal geographies of capitalism beyond states and markets

How do we understand the role of law and lawmaking in the geographical political economy of capitalism? Ilias Alami's article examines foreign investment screening mechanisms to gauge contemporary shifts, inquiring if these legal changes amount to a reworking of globalization or a post-neoliberal assertion of state power over the market. If lawmaking has always been necessary for capitalist economies, Alami's attention to the laws governing investment suggests other narratives of the present. Rather than a story about neoliberalism and its aftermath, we might think about a longer history of law as a tool shaping the geographies of investment.