scholarly journals Last writes? The law review in the age of cyberspace

First Monday ◽  
1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Hibbitts
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Extended Version ◽  
Review System ◽  
The World ◽  
On Line ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Law ◽  
Recent Editorial ◽  
Legal Writers

This article reassesses the history and future of the law review in light of changing technological and academic conditions. It analyzes why law reviews developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and describes how three different waves of criticism have reflected shifting professorial, professional and pedagogical concerns about the genre. Recent editorial reforms and the inauguration of on-line services and electronic law journals appear to solve some of the law review's traditional problems, but the author suggests that these procedural and technological modifications leave the basic criticisms of the law review system unmet. In this context, the author proposes that legal writers self-publish on the World Wide Web, as he has done in an extended version of the present piece. This strategy would give legal writers more control over the substance and form of their scholarship, would create more opportunities for spontaneity and creativity, and would promote more direct dialogue between legal thinkers.

Transforming the Law: Essays on Technology, Justice and the Legal Marketplace. By Richard Susskind. [Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000. xiii, 292, and (Index) 9 pp. Hardback £19.95. ISBN 0–19–829922–2.]

2002 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 463-492
Author(s):  
Daniel Bates
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Crystal Ball ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Comprehensive Collection ◽  
The World ◽  
The Law ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Oxford University Press

InThe introduction to Transforming the Law Professor Susskind supposes that the development of the World Wide Web has created a population of people who read in short digestible chunks, leaving the “cover-to-cover experience” uniquely for readers of fiction novels. If this is indeed the case, then this book is ideally suited to such a reader, being a collection of Susskind’s own brand of legal IT strategising and crystal-ball-gazing in self-contained and comprehensive chapters. Readers who have heard Susskind speak will recognise some proportion of the various essays. However, the book does also provide an extremely comprehensive collection of his thinking on developments in the practice of the law at many different levels.

Where in the (World Wide) Web of Belief is the Law of Non-contradiction?

Noûs ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Arnold ◽  
Stewart Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The World ◽  
Web Of Belief ◽  
The Law

scholarly journals Blogging and the Politics of Melancholy

2004 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Keren
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The World ◽  
On Line ◽  
Réalité Virtuelle ◽  
Recent Activity

Abstract: Blogging, the publication of on-line diaries with links to other Web sites, is a recent activity and yet is already producing its celebrities. The author analyzes diary entries posted over five years by one master blogger, and his relations with his readers, to try to originate preliminary hypotheses on the politics of blogging. Observation of blogging in one of its most glamorous manifestations suggests that the new emancipation achieved by self-representation on the World Wide Web may be associated with what Scott Lash has called “the politics of melancholy,” here characterized by preference for virtual reality, formation of a cult-like community, and political passivity. Résumé : Le blogage, qui consiste à afficher son journal personnel en ligne en y incluant des liens vers des sites connexes, est une activité récente et pourtant elle a déjà ses célébrités. L’auteur analyse les entrées de journal d’un maître bloggeur sur une durée de cinq ans ainsi que ses rapports avec ses lecteurs, en vue de développer des hypothèses préliminaires sur la politique du blogage. L’observation du blogage dans une de ses manifestations les plus attrayantes suggère que l’on peut associer la nouvelle émancipation que permet la représentation de soi sur le Web à ce que Scott Lash appelle « la politique de la mélancolie », caractérisée ici par une préférence pour la réalité virtuelle, la formation d’une communauté ressemblant à un culte et la passivité politique.

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