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Between Truth and Power
Contributor(s): Cohen (Author)
ISBN: 0190246693     ISBN-13: 9780190246693
Publisher: Academic
OUR PRICE:   $43.69  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Law | Legal Profession
- Political Science | Public Policy - Economic Policy
- Political Science | Civics & Citizenship
Dewey: 343.730
LCCN: 2019002684
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.45 lbs) 376 pages
 
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Our current legal system is to a great extent the product of an earlier period of social and economic transformation. From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, as accountability for industrial-age harms became a pervasive source of conflict, the U.S. legal system
underwent profound, tectonic shifts. Today, struggles over ownership of information-age resources and accountability for information-age harms are producing new systemic changes.

In Between Truth and Power, Julie E. Cohen explores the relationships between legal institutions and political and economic transformation. Systematically examining struggles over the conditions of information flow and the design of information architectures and business models, she argues that as
law is enlisted to help produce the profound economic and sociotechnical shifts that have accompanied the emergence of the informational economy, it is too is transforming in fundamental ways. Drawing on elements from legal theory, science and technology studies, information studies, communication
studies and organization studies to develop a complex theory of institutional change, Cohen develops an account of the gradual emergence of legal institutions adapted to the information age and of the power relationships that such institutions reflect and reproduce.

A tour de force of ambitious interdisciplinary scholarship, Between Truth and Power will transform our thinking about the possible futures of law and legal institutions in the networked information era.