This book deals with solid land and high seas, land and sea grabs, order and localization. It is about the order of large spaces: about borders, borders, territories, claims, wars, about the land on which we find clear traces of divisions, and about the sea, where there are no traces. It is about justice and law, for law goes back to the earth and is connected with the earth, but also about freedom and enterprise, the element of which is the expanse of water. In his latest major book, Schmitt paints an impressive picture of the evolution of European law in the wake of great geographical discoveries and colonial seizures. He writes about continental and maritime empires and combines law, history, mythology and geography in one statement. The book about the nomos of the Earth is rightly considered one of the masterpieces of the late work of the great German scientist.