Law and the technologies of the twenty-first century : text and materials /

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Author / Creator:Brownsword, Roger.
Imprint:Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2012.
Description:xxi, 469 : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Law in context
Law in context.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8909764
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Varying Form of Title:Law and the technologies of the 21st century
Other authors / contributors:Goodwin, Morag.
ISBN:9781107006553 (hbk.)
1107006554 (hbk.)
9780521186247 (pbk.)
0521186242 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. General Introduction
  • 1. Law and the technologies of the twenty-first century
  • 2. The regulatory environment: UK Biobank, eBay, and Wikipedia
  • 3. Four key regulatory challenges
  • 4. Technology as a regulatory tool: DNA profiling and Marper
  • Part II. Regulatory Prudence and Precaution
  • 5. Regulatory prudence I: health, safety and environment, GM crops, nanoparticles, and sound science
  • 6. Regulatory prudence II: precaution
  • Part III. Regulatory Legitimacy
  • 7. The legitimacy of the regulatory environment - the basic ideas
  • 8. Key boundary-marking concepts
  • 9. Human rights as boundary-markers
  • 10. Understanding procedural legitimacy - the role of public participation in technology regulation
  • Part IV. Regulatory Effectiveness
  • 11. Regulatory effectiveness I
  • 12. Regulatory effectiveness II: failure by regulators
  • 13. Regulatory effectiveness III: resistance by regulatees
  • 14. Regulatory effectiveness IV: third-party interference and disruptive externalities
  • Part V. Regulatory Connection
  • 15. Regulatory connection I: getting connected
  • 16. Regulatory connection II: disconnection and sustainability
  • Part VI. Concluding Overview
  • 17. From law to code: the surveillance society and Marper revisited