It will be familiar to many that the environmental emergency of our times generates a number of difficulties for our thinking of law and society. It is argued in this essay that the languages of place-making make some sense of these predicaments. The essay proceeds through the close reading of an Extinction Rebellion protest and two landmark judgments. The protests, and their policing, are keyed to specific places and their atmospheres. A first judgment concerns the destruction of habitat and the extinction of native wildlife species; a second concerns the impact of coal mining on greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. A sense of place emerges with the aesthetic reason of judgment. The emblems and topics of legal speech, it is argued, give form and technique to the writing of place. A renewed jurisprudence of topography makes legible the meeting places of law and the environmental emergency.

许多人都知道，我们这个时代的环境紧急情况给我们的法律和社会思考带来了许多困难。本文认为，场所营造语言对这些困境有一定的意义。这篇文章通过仔细阅读灭绝叛乱抗议和两个具有里程碑意义的判决来进行。抗议活动和他们的治安是针对特定地点和他们的气氛的。第一个判决涉及栖息地的破坏和本地野生动物物种的灭绝；第二个问题涉及煤炭开采对温室气体排放和气候变化的影响。一种地方感随着判断的审美理性而出现。有人认为，法律言论的标志和主题赋予地方写作形式和技巧。