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Codes And Hypertext: The Intertextuality Of International And Comparative Law, Marylin J. Raisch
Codes And Hypertext: The Intertextuality Of International And Comparative Law, Marylin J. Raisch
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The field of information studies reveals gaps in the literature of international and comparative law as part of interdisciplinary and textual studies. To illustrate the kind of theoretical and text-based work that could be done, this essay provides an example of such a study. Religious law texts, civil law codes, treaties and constitutional texts may provide a means to reveal the nature of hypertext as the new format for commentary. Margins used to be used for commentary, and now this can be done with hypertext and links in footnotes. Scholarly communication in general is now intertextual, and texts derive value …