This book deals with hard land and high seas, land and sea seizures, order and containment. We are talking 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 land and is connected with the land, but also about freedom and enterprise, the element of which is the expanse of water. In his latest big book, Schmitt paints an impressive picture of the evolution of European law in relation to great geographical discoveries and colonial seizures. He writes about continental and maritime empires and combines jurisprudence, history, mythology and geography in one presentation. The book about the nomos of the Earth is rightfully considered one of the masterpieces of the late work of the great German scientist.