Typographic Legality
The Source and Transmission of the Common Law
$195.20
- Hardcover
232 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2026
Summary
The typographic form of judgment stages the authoritative presence of the common law. It is in the encounter with typographic materials that legal meaning is generated, yet typographic legality—the material expression of law as visual text—is rarely examined. In this book, Thomas Giddens refocuses critical attention by studying the history of the common law’s visual technologies and unpacking the heritage, meanings, and techniques of its typographic appearance. It thereby develops new methodo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399515436 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399515438 |
| Author: | Thomas Giddens |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Imprint: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
| Series: | Edinburgh Studies in Law, Justice and the Visual |
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Critics Review
Thomas Giddens’ Typographic Legality is one of the few scholarly works from the common law world to successfully combine media theory and jurisprudence. It studies a seemingly mundane medium that all jurists, scholars and practitioners alike, work with every day: a typeface or a font. A fascinating read. – Panu Minkkinen, University of Helsinki
Thomas Giddens
Thomas Giddens is Chair of Jurisprudence and Director of Research at Dundee Law School.
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