Publication Date

12-2001

Journal

Columbia Law Review

Abstract

This Essay begins by analyzing the way American legal theory has failed to adequately address the challenges and insights of grammatology, the philological critique of the language of law initiated with Jacques Derrida's work Of Grammatology. Professor Goodrich traces the form that this failed confrontation took and then outlines how this philological critique ought to inform a study of law. Importantly for Professor Goodrich, the grammatological approach to law provides ways of analyzing not just the written legal text, but also the effects of new media technologies on the law more broadly. The changes in the law brought about by new technologies are something that traditional legal philosophies cannot adequately register and assess. The final portion of the Essay then outlines the form that a grammatological approach to studying "law in the videosphere" might take.

Volume

101

Issue

8

First Page

2033

Last Page

2084

Publisher

Columbia Law School

Disciplines

Judges | Jurisprudence | Law | Law and Politics | Law and Society | Science and Technology Law

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