Notes - Burdens of Proof - page 210

5. Joel R. Reidenberg, “Lex Informatica: The Formulation of Information Policy
Rules Through Technology,” Texas Law Review 76, no. 3 (1998): 555.
6. Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace , 35-36. The statement was removed
from the second edition, Lawrence Lessig's Code: Version 2.0 (New York: Basic Books,
2006), 53.
7. See, for example, A. Michael Froomkin, “The Metaphor Is the Key: Cryptography,
the Clipper Chip, and the Constitution,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 709
(1995): 709-897; and Phillip R. Reitinger, “Compelled Production of Plaintext and
Keys,” University of Chicago Legal Forum (1996): 171-206.
8. See Peter M. Tiersma, Parchment, Paper, Pixels: Law and the Technologies of Com-
munication (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010). See also Bruno Latour, The
Making of Law: An Ethnography of the Conseil d'État (Cambridge: Polity, 2010).
9. The use of writing as evidence in legal disputes was already well established in
Mesopotamia—see Dominique Charpin, Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian
Mesopotamia (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010).
10. Elizabeth A. Meyer, Legitimacy and Law in the Roman World: Tabulae in Roman
Belief and Practice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 295.
11. Ibid., 295-296.
12. Clanchy, From Memory to Written Record , England 1066-1307 , 87-88. Photo VII
shows the bottom half of a chirograph.
13. Levy-Bruhl, La preuve judiciaire , 120.
14. See Gabriel Marty and Pierre Raynaud, “Théorie générale des preuves,” in Droit
civil (Paris: Sirey, 1972); Laurent Aynés and Philippe Malaurie, “Formalités et preuve,”
in Cours de droit civil: Les obligations (Paris: Éditions Cujas, 1990); François Terré,
Introduction générale au droit (Paris: Dalloz, 1994).
15. Consensualism refers to the principle that contracts between private individuals
are not subjected to any forms whatsoever (including written documents); that is,
contracts occur whenever there is consensual assent to obligations.
16. See Olivier Cayla, “La qualification, ou la vérité du droit,” Droits 18 (1993): 3-18.
17. See Dennis R. Neary, Terence H. Coyle, and Don M. Avedon, “The Integration of
Microfilm and the Computer,” In AFIPS '76 Proceedings of the June 7-10, 1976,
National Computer Conference and Exposition (New York: ACM Press, 1976), 627-637.
18. Michel Vion, “Les modifications apportées au droit de la preuve par la loi du 12
juillet 1980,” Desfrenois , no. 32470 (1980): 1329-1347.
19. Marcel Rudloff, “Rapport sur la proposition de loi de M. Jacques Thyraud,
tendant à actualiser les dispositions du Code Civil sur la preuve testimoniale” (Paris:
Sénat, May 10, 1979).