The Popularity of Legal Information: Rethinking Legal-information Analysis

Abstract

Legal informatic study used to analyze data and information which support legal education and legal practice and little discussion focuses on information about law in public sphere as media coverage or online discourse. In this article, I argue that persons acquire and use information about law in different contexts, to improving legal-information analysis. At first, referring the recent law-making process in criminal law, I show the popularization in information environment of law and the negative effects caused. Second, I signify the study of the information about law in public sphere from positivism perspective. In the end, I outline how the new theoretical vocabulary, theoretical model and analytic distinctions that I propose can be used to improve our study of legal information’s social effects.