LAW ON DISPLAY: The Digital Transformation of Legal Persuasion and Judgment
by Perry Fetterman | March 30, 2010 | events | Comments Off
The Yale Information Society Project is pleased to announce a book talk with Neal Feigenson and Christina Spiesel on April 13 at 4:00 p.m. The event will take place at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale located at 80 Wall Street. The event is being sponsored by Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, Yale Law School and the Yale Information Society Project.
LAW ON DISPLAY:
The Digital Transformation of Legal Persuasion and Judgment
The law, like the rest of culture, is awash in pictures of all kinds, mostly produced and circulated using digital technologies. LAW ON DISPLAY explores how this proliferation of digital pictures changes the nature of legal argument and decision making and, ultimately, our notions of justice. The authors, Neal Feigenson and Christina Spiesel, will speak at the Slifka Center at 4:00 on April 13, 2010, pursuing one of the central themes in their book: naïve realism about both pictures and the technologies that make them possible. They will show and discuss materials from two case studies from the book (one involving surveillance video; the other, video and computer animation). They will also discuss law’s possible near future: Law’s increasing mediation by computers and its presence online offer benefits to dispute resolution but also presents risks to justice should naïve realism in response to pictures be joined with naïve realism about the technology behind the computer screen.
Christina Spiesel is senior research scholar at Yale Law School and adjunct professor at Quinnipiac University School of Law and New York Law School.
Neal Feigenson is Carmen Tortora Professor of Law at Quinnipiac University School of Law and author of Legal Blame: How Jurors Think and Talk About Accidents.
