Law in a Technological Context: Disruptions and Transitions [Hardcover]

Introduction to Law in a Technological Context: Disruptions and Transitions?1. Law, Authority, and Respect: Three Waves of Technological Disruption?2. Private Law and Technology: Beyond Fighting Fires and Fanning the Flames?3. Regulating Human Enhancement: Things Can Only Get Better??4. New Genetic Tests, New Research Findings: Do Patients and Participants Have a Right to Knowand Do They Have a Right Not to Know??5. Friends, Romans, and Countrymen: Is There a Universal Right to Identity??6. From Erewhon to Alpha Go: For the Sake of Human Dignity Should We Destroy the Machines??7. Regulating Patient Safety: Is it Time for a Technological Response??8. In the Year 2061: From Law to Technological Management?9. Technological Management and the Rule of Law

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This edited collection explores the disruptive effects of technology on law, in the challenge presented to regulators as they strive to manage the transition from one technological state to another and in the opportunities presented as regulators transition from traditional rule-based legal governance to one that relies on new technologies.

This edited collection explores the disruptive effects of technology on law: in particular, the challenge presented to regulators as they strive to manage the transition from one technological state to another (such as the transition from analogue to digital or from fossil fuels to green renewables) and the opportunities (and challenges) presented as regulators transition from traditional rule-based legal governance to governance that relies on new technologies and tools.

It brings together nine papers, eight of which were published in the journal Law, Innovation and Technology (between 2009 and 2022) and the nilƒ