Tracking Karl Friedrich Adler’s publications [Articol]

Abstract

It is rather unusual to deal with legal history in the context of digitalization in law, because digitalization is a topic of the present and the future and not of the past – at least not of the time of Karl Friedrich Adler (1865–1924). During Adler’s lifetime, just a few proto-digital systems were established: punch cards, the Morse code, Braille. Adler had no specific connection to any of them (although it is plausible that he sent telegrams and thus used the Morse code at least indirectly). Thus, this paper does not deal with Adler’s personal experience of digitalization, but with the role of digitalization for research on Adler – specifically in finding his own publications.