Do C&IT Facilitate the Wrong Things?

Alldridge, Peter W. 2000. Do C&IT Facilitate the Wrong Things? International Review of Law, Computers & Technology 14 (2) , pp. 143-154. 10.1080/13600860050032961

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

There is a simple view of the role of C&IT (computers and information technology) in the legal academy that states, 'C&IT is just a tool. Use it or abuse it as you will. It has no ideology. It can no more be a bad thing than can a car or a chisel'. It is an additional resource on top of whatever we had before. I want to link that claim to a set of analogous claims about the relationship between law and science and law and mathematics, and subject them to scrutiny. I shall call these claims (that science, mathematics and computers are 'just' tools) collectively the 'neutrality claim'. So far as concerns computers, I shall suggest that C&IT in law has a tendency either towards reaction or towards reductionism in how we understand law in the academy. I will finish by considering an area in which computers have been relatively more successful-chess-and trying to work through the similarities and distinctions.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Law
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General) T Technology > T Technology (General)
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	1360-0869
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2017 14:07
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/24664

Actions (repository staff only)

Edit Item