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

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:
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Law and the Technologies of the Twenty-First Century provides a contextual account of the way in which law functions in a broader regulatory environment across different jurisdictions. It identifies and clearly structures the four key challenges that technology poses to regulatory efforts, distinguishing between technology as a regulatory target and tool, and guiding the reader through an emerging field that is subject to rapid change. By extensive use of examples and extracts from the texts and materials that form and shape the scholarly and public debates over technology regulation, it presents complex material in a stimulating and engaging manner. Co-authored by a leading scholar in the field with a scholar new to the area, it combines comprehensive knowledge of the field with a fresh approach. This is essential reading for students of law and technology, risk regulation, policy studies, and science and technology studies.

• First book on the market looking at law and technology generally

• Materials integrated throughout for full perspective on the field

• Scientific material explained without overloading the student with technical data

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