Parchment, Paper, Pixels: Law and the Technologies of Communication

by Peter M. Tiersma

Technological revolutions have had an unquestionable, if still debatable, impact on culture and society--perhaps none more so than the written word. In the legal realm, the rise of literacy and print culture made possible the governing of large empires, the memorializing of private legal transactions, and the broad distribution of judicial precedents and legislation. Yet each of these technologies has its shadow side: written or printed texts easily...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226803066
• ISBN13: 9780226803067
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"