Funded by the Italian Ministry for University and Research, and Next Generation EU (2022-2025), the SPACE project challenges the traditional, State-based legal approach to territory through the lens of the center/periphery cleavage. by investigating the processes of configuration and reconfiguration of centers and peripheries in Europe over the past decades. Adopting a comparative legal perspective and methodology, SPACE has been developed by 5 research units: UNIBO (University of Bologna), UNIVR (University of Verona), UNICAL (University of Calabria), UNIFI (University of Florence) and LUM (LUM University De Gennaro, Casamassima–Bari).