What is a Document? Evidentiary Challenges in the Digital Era
Funding: 2016: $60,000
2017: $55,000
2018: $78,000
Project Member(s): Biber, K., Luker, P.
Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)
Start year: 2016
Summary: This project is an investigation of the changing nature and role of documentary evidence in modern Australian litigation. Using case studies, detailed interviews with key stakeholders and observational fieldwork, this project embraces methods developed in the fields of information science and the humanities, where understandings of material culture in the digital age have advanced rapidly, to examine their potential for law. The project makes recommendations for reform or renewal in the ways that law uses documentary evidence.
Publications:
Biber, K 2019, In Crime's Archive, Routledge, Abingdon UK.
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Donna, WB & Natalya, L 2019, 'Photography and Ontology' in Brett, DW & Lusty, N (eds), Photography and Ontology: Unsettling Images, Routledge, New York, pp. 41-55.
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Biber, K 2019, 'Dignity in the digital age: Broadcasting the Oscar Pistorius trial', Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 401-422.
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Biber, K 2019, 'Little Clues: Frances Glessner Lee's Archives of Domestic Homicide', law&history., vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 46-82.
Biber, K 2017, 'The Archival Turn in Law: The Papers of Lindy Chamberlain in the National Library of Australia', Sydney Law Review, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 277-301.
Keywords: evidence law, material culture
FOR Codes: Legal Institutions (incl. Courts and Justice Systems), Cultural Theory, Law and Society, Legal Processes, Expanding Knowledge in Law and Legal Studies, Law Reform, Law and society and socio-legal research