This book explores the various notions of the right to park, which jurisprudentially is enacted between individuals in everyday parking. From parking areas to the courtroom, parking engenders disputes over equality, speech, legitimacy, and entitlement that reach beyond the stated scope of policy. Looking beyond the obvious, this book examines the contested site of the parking space as a place of socio-legal meaning where property claims and rights shape identities.

Sarah Marusek is assistant professor at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. She has written extensively on law and society, legal semiotics, and jurisprudence, and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law.

Preface and Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Parking and Power; Chapter 2 Construction of a Political Text; Chapter 3 Citizenship and Community; Chapter 4 Semiotics of the Terrain; Chapter 5 Embodiment of Jurisdiction; Chapter 6 Consumption and the Built Environment; Chapter 7 Law Personified; Chapter 8 Emblematic Folk Legality; Chapter 9 Legality Beyond the Scope of Policy;