Digital Justice: Technology, Impartiality and the Law

Author: Antoine Garapon; Jean Lassegue
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009864176

Published In: October 2026
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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How is the authority of law challenged by digital technologies? Is the digitisation of law an appropriate means to achieve legal impartiality? This book provides an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the impact of the ongoing digital transformation of legal systems.

Digital law differs from traditional law in that it relies on decision-support software and networked databases. Such mechanisms must be understood not only in technical terms but also in their social and historical dimensions: the computational foundations of digital law should be situated within the long history of the mechanisation of writing. Digitalisation constitutes a graphic revolution which, in the legal domain, transforms the very conditions of impartiality. Whereas the legality of traditional legal systems is grounded in territorial sovereignty, digital law is no longer anchored in a sovereign territory. It not only increasingly transcends established borders, but also dispenses with the spatial embeddedness that has underpinned legal authority. Digital legality must therefore be reconceptualised to consider how automated systems may be integrated into the social space within which law operates.

Part I. Epistemology of Digital Justice:

1. Steps towards a graphical revolution

2. The limits of computation

3. Spatial vs. non-spatial legality

4. Three legal trends in the graphical revolution

Part II. Sociology of Digital Justice:

5. A total social fact

6. Revisiting natural law in the age of digitalisation

Part III. Anthropology of Digital Justice:

7. The fourth dimension of the hearing

8. Inanimate judges, where are your souls?

9. A predictive function?