Computer Juridisms

Cornelia Vismann is a researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut for European Legal History in Frankfurt. Her main research fields are constitutional law, legal history, and the theory and history of media with respect to law. She is the author of a history of legal filing systems, Akten: Medientechnik und Recht (Fischer, 2000); English translation: Filing Systems (Stanford University Press, 2008). She has coedited a special issue of German Law Journal on Jacques Derrida: Before, Through, Beyond (the) Law (2005), and a volume on decision, Urteilen/Entscheiden (Fink, 2006). She has recently finished a book manuscript on Computers and Constitution: Verfassung nach dem Computer, which discusses questions raised in this volume's article in greater detail.

Markus Krajewski is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Media at the Bauhaus University Weimar. He is author of ZettelWirtschaft: Die Geburt der Kartei aus dem Geiste der Bibliothek (Kadmos, 2002) and of Restlosigkeit: Weltprojekte um 1900 (Fischer, 2006). He is also developer and maintainer of the bibliography software synapsen—a hypertextual card index.