Law's Documents

Illuminating their breadth and diversity this book presents a comprehensive and multidisciplinary view of legal documents and their manifold forms uses materialities and meanings. In 1951 Suzanne Briet a librarian at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris famously said that an antelope in a zoo could be a document thereby radically changing the way documents were analysed and understood. In the fifty years since this pronouncement the digital age has introduced a potentially limitless range of digi...See More