Law in Context: Law and the Technologies of the Twenty-First Century Text and Materials

Author: Roger Brownsword; Morag Goodwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521186247
Published In: June 2012
Format: Paperback , 492 pages
Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

Acknowledgements	ix
List of abbreviations	xi
Tables of cases	xiii
Table of statutes and other public documents	xvi
Part I General introduction	1
1 Introduction	3
2 The regulatory environment: UK Biobank, eBay and Wikipedia	24
3 Four key regulatory challenges	46
4 Technology as a regulatory tool: DNA profiling and Marper	72
Part II Regulatory prudence and precaution	109
5 Regulatory prudence I: health, safety and environment: GM crops, nanoparticles and sound science	111
6 Regulatory prudence II: precaution	137
Part III Regulatory legitimacy	167
7 The legitimacy of the regulatory environment: basic ideas	169
8 Key boundary-marking concepts	188
9 Human rights as boundary markers	225
10 A look at procedural legitimacy: the role of public participation in technology regulation	246
Part IV Regulatory effectiveness	269
11 Regulatory effectiveness I	271
12 Regulatory effectiveness II: failure by regulators	296
13 Regulatory effectiveness III: resistance by regulatees	318
14 Regulatory effectiveness IV: third-party interference and disruptive externalities	342
Part V Regulatory connection	369
15 Regulatory connection I: getting connected	371
16 Regulatory connection II: disconnection and sustainability	398
Concluding overview	421
17 From law to code: the surveillance society and Marper revisited	423
Index	453