By Peter M. Tiersma

ISBN-10: 0226803066

ISBN-13: 9780226803067

Technological revolutions have had an unquestionable, if nonetheless controversial, influence on tradition and society—perhaps none extra so than the written be aware. within the felony realm, the increase of literacy and print tradition made attainable the governing of enormous empires, the memorializing of non-public criminal transactions, and the vast distribution of judicial precedents and laws. but every one of those applied sciences has its shadow aspect: written or published texts simply turn into static and the textual practices of the felony career can frustrate usual electorate, who could be sure by way of files whose implications they scarcely understand.

Parchment, Paper, Pixels deals an attractive exploration of the effect of 3 technological revolutions at the law.  starting with the discovery of writing, carrying on with with the mass creation of exact copies of criminal texts led to by means of the printing press, and finishing with a dialogue of pcs and the web, Peter M. Tiersma lines the adventure of contracts, wills, statutes, judicial critiques, and different criminal texts during the earlier and into the future.

Though the last word results of recent applied sciences on our felony approach stay to be obvious, Parchment, Paper, Pixels deals readers an insightful advisor as to how our moving varieties of technological literacy have formed and proceed to form the perform of legislation today.

 

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