While it is a truism that emerging technologies present both opportunities for and challenges to their host communities, the legal community has only recently begun to consider their significance. On the one hand, emerging information, bio, nano, and neurotechnologies challenge policy-makers who aspire to put in place a regulatory environment that is legitimate, effective, and sustainable; on the other hand, these same technologies offer new opportunities as potentially powerful regulatory instruments.
In this unique volume, a team of leading international scholars address many of the key difficulties surrounding the regulation of emerging technological targets as well as the implications of adopting technology as a regulatory tool.
How should we rise to the challenge of regulating technologies? How are the regulatory lines to be drawn in the right places and how is the public to be properly engaged? How is precaution to be accommodated, and how can the law keep pace with technologies that develop ahead of the regulatory environment?
How readily should we avail ourselves of the opportunity to use technology as a regulative strategy? How are we to understand these strategies and the challenges which they raise?
To what extent do they give rise to similar policy problems accompanying more 'traditional' regulatory instruments or generate distinctive challenges?
While the criminal justice system increasingly relies on technological assistance and the development of a 'surveillance society', is a regulatory regime that rules by technology compatible with rule of law values?
Edited by:
Professor Roger Brownsword,
Karen Yeung
Imprint: Hart Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 632g
ISBN: 9781841137889
ISBN 10: 184113788X
Pages: 398
Publication Date: 23 October 2008
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introductory Reflections 1. Regulating Technologies: Tools, Targets and Thematics Roger Brownsword and Karen Yeung 2. So What Does the World Need Now? Reflections on Regulating Technologies Roger Brownsword Part One: Technology as a Regulatory Tool 3. Crime Control Technologies: Towards an Analytical Framework and Research Agenda Ben Bowling, Amber Marks and Cian Murphy 4. Towards an Understanding of Regulation by Design Karen Yeung 5. Internet Filtering: Rhetoric, Legitimacy, Accountability and Responsibility TJ McIntyre and Colin Scott 6. Perfect Enforcement on Tomorrow’s Internet Jonathan Zittrain 7. Criteria for Normative Technology: The Acceptability of ‘Code as law’ in Light of Democratic and Constitutional Values Bert-Jaap Koops 8. A Vision of Ambient Law Mireille Hildebrandt 9. The Trouble with Technology Regulation: Why Lessig’s ‘Optimal Mix’ Will Not Work Serge Gutwirth, Paul De Hert and Laurent De Sutter Part Two: Technology as a Regulatory Target 10. Cloning Trojan Horses: Precautionary Regulation of Reproductive Technologies Han Somsen 11. The Transplantation of Human Fetal Brain Tissue: The Swiss Federal Law Andrea Büchler 12. Tools for Technology Regulation: Seeking Analytical Approaches Beyond Lessig and Hood Charles D Raab and Paul De Hert 13. Conceptualising the Post-Regulatory (Cyber)state Andrew D Murray 14. Vicissitudes of Imaging, Imprisonment and Intentionality Judy Illes 15. Taming Matter for the Welfare of Humanity: Regulating Nanotechnology Hailemichael Teshome Demissie 16. Regulating Renewable Energy Technologies: The Chinese Experience Deng Haifeng Closing Reflections 17. New Frontier: Regulating Technology by Law and ‘Code’ Michael Kirby
Roger Brownsword and Karen Yeung are both Professors of Law at King's College, London.
Reviews for Regulating Technologies: Legal Futures, Regulatory Frames and Technological Fixes
The book contains a great deal of interest to stimulate the reader, much that is beyond the scope of this review to touch on. The quality of writing throughout makes the book a valuable contribution to the ongoing debates about how we regulate technologies and how they regulate us. Ian Walden Computer and Telecommunications Law Review Vol 16: 2010 An invaluable resource to any, from the lawyer to the sociologist, philosopher and ethicist, who are interested and recognise the importance of engaging with the ethical, social and legal implications of new emerging technologies Regulating Technologies will ... continue to be referred to due to the spirit in which it has initiated and helped frame and inform discussion. Matt James Biocentre Newsletter
