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Law on display : the digital transformation of legal persuasion and judgment / Neal Feigenson and Christina Spiesel.

Title
Law on display : the digital transformation of legal persuasion and judgment / Neal Feigenson and Christina Spiesel.
Author
Feigenson, Neal
Publication
New York : New York University Press, c2009.

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Spiesel, Christina
Description
xiv, 335 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Visual and multimedia digital technologies are transforming the practice of law: how lawyers construct and argue their cases, present evidence to juries, and communicate with each other. They are also changing how law is disseminated throughout and used by the general public. What are these technologies, how are they used and perceived in the courtroom and in wider culture, and how do they affect legal decision making? In this comprehensive survey and analysis of how new visual technologies are transforming both the practice and culture of American law, Neal Feigenson and Christina Spiesel explain how, when, and why legal practice moved from a largely words-only environment to one more dependent on and driven by images, and how rapidly developing technologies have further accelerated this change. They discuss older visual technologies, such as videotape evidence, and then current and future uses of visual and multimedia digital technologies, including trial presentation software and interactive multimedia. They also describe how law itself is going online, in the form of virtual courts, cyberjuries, and more, and explore the implications of law's movement to computer screens. Throughout "Law on Display", the authors illustrate their analysis with examples from a wide range of actual trials.
Series Statement
Ex machina
Uniform Title
  • Project Muse UPCC books.
  • Ex machina
Subject
  • Gericht > Audiovisuelle Medien > USA
  • Electronic discovery (Law) > United States
  • Electronic records > Law and legislation > United States
  • Electronic evidence > Law and legislation > United States
  • Evidence, Documentary > United States
  • Video tapes in court proceedings > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-307) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The digital visual revolution -- The rhetoric of the real : videotape as evidence -- Teaching the case -- Picturing scientific evidence -- Multimedia arguments -- Into the screen : toward virtual judgment -- Ethics and justice in the digital visual age.
ISBN
  • 9780814727584 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0814727581 (hbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2009015573
OCLC
  • 318585666
  • SCSB-9895483
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library