This essay undertakes an autoethnographic recollection of the author’s experience of helping to found, in the year 2008, what is now Bocconi Legal Papers, while he was a student at Bocconi Law School. The experience of setting up a student-edited academic publication brought into focus for him the practice of «active reading», with which the author had become familiar earlier in the course of his legal education. This, in turn, provided access to an intuitive understanding of the porosity of the law to the interpretive efforts of its «active readers», as they conjure law’s direction for another first time. If every reading of the law involves a crisis and a re-accommodation of its path, what other «active readers» of the law might be found, outside the circle of professional jurists? For this purpose, the author summons the notion of the «lawscape» to develop this line of questioning in a spatial direction, by reinscribing the law as a material actor that both affects, and is stirred by, the bodies it meets.