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Traditionally, the role of law has been to implement political decisions concerning the relationship between science and society. Increasingly, however, as our understanding of the complex dynamic between law, science and society deepens, this instrumental characterisation is seen to be inadequate, but as yet we have only a limited conception of what might take its place. In short, there is a need for new research and scholarship, and it is to that need that this series responds.

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The Use of Biodiversity in International Law A Genealogy of Genetic Gold

The Use of Biodiversity in International Law: A Genealogy of Genetic Gold

1st Edition

By Andreas Kotsakis
January 09, 2023

This book presents a legal genealogy of biodiversity – of its strategic use before and after the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 1993. This history of ‘genetic gold’ details how, with the aid of international law, the idea of biodiversity has been instrumentalized towards ...

Law, Ecology, and the Management of Complex Systems The Case of Water Governance

Law, Ecology, and the Management of Complex Systems: The Case of Water Governance

1st Edition

By Tiina Paloniitty
August 19, 2022

This book addresses the role of law in the adaptive management of socio-ecological systems. Recent years have witnessed a rise in discussion over the relation between adaptivity and law, as if after decades of insouciance, legal scholars have finally started to understand the impacts of the ...

Law and the Regulation of Scientific Research Trusting Experts

Law and the Regulation of Scientific Research: Trusting Experts

1st Edition

By Mark Davies
August 12, 2022

Scientific research is fundamental to addressing issues of great importance to the development of human knowledge. Scientific research fuels advances in medicine, technology and other areas important to society and has to be credible, trustworthy and able to command confidence in the face of ...

Zoo Veterinarians Governing Care on a Diseased Planet

Zoo Veterinarians: Governing Care on a Diseased Planet

1st Edition

By Irus Braverman
April 15, 2022

Despite their centrality to the operation of contemporary accredited zoo and aquarium institutions, the work of zoo veterinarians has rarely been the focus of a critical analysis in the social science and humanities. Drawing on in-depth interviews and observations of zoo and aquarium veterinarians,...

Complexity Theory and Law Mapping an Emergent Jurisprudence

Complexity Theory and Law: Mapping an Emergent Jurisprudence

1st Edition

Edited By Jamie Murray, Thomas Webb, Steven Wheatley
December 03, 2019

This collection of essays explores the different ways the insights from complexity theory can be applied to law. Complexity theory – a variant of systems theory – views law as an emergent, complex, self-organising system comprised of an interactive network of actors and systems that operate with no...

A Socio-Legal Study of Hacking Breaking and Remaking Law and Technology

A Socio-Legal Study of Hacking: Breaking and Remaking Law and Technology

1st Edition

By Michael Anthony C. Dizon
March 21, 2019

The relationship between hacking and the law has always been complex and conflict-ridden. This book examines the relations and interactions between hacking and the law with a view to understanding how hackers influence and are influenced by technology laws and policies. In our increasingly digital ...

Law, Technology and Society Reimagining the Regulatory Environment

Law, Technology and Society: Reimagining the Regulatory Environment

1st Edition

By Roger Brownsword
February 25, 2019

This book considers the implications of the regulatory burden being borne increasingly by technological management rather than by rules of law. If crime is controlled, if human health and safety are secured, if the environment is protected, not by rules but by measures of technological ...

Gene Editing, Law, and the Environment Life Beyond the Human

Gene Editing, Law, and the Environment: Life Beyond the Human

1st Edition

Edited By Irus Braverman
January 03, 2019

Technologies like CRISPR and gene drives are ushering in a new era of genetic engineering, wherein the technical means to modify DNA are cheaper, faster, more accurate, more widely accessible, and with more far-reaching effects than ever before. These cutting-edge technologies raise legal, ethical,...

Law, Technology and Dispute Resolution The Privatisation of Coercion

Law, Technology and Dispute Resolution: The Privatisation of Coercion

1st Edition

By Riikka Koulu
October 01, 2018

The use of new information and communication technologies both inside the courts and in private online dispute resolution services is quickly changing everyday conflict management. However, the implications of the increasingly disruptive role of technology in dispute resolution remain largely ...

Law and the Management of Disasters The Challenge of Resilience

Law and the Management of Disasters: The Challenge of Resilience

1st Edition

Edited By Alexia Herwig, Marta Simoncini
June 14, 2018

Disasters raise serious challenges for contemporary legal orders: they demand significant management, but usually amidst massive disruption to the normal functioning of state authority and society. When dealing with disasters, law has traditionally focused on contingency planning and recovery. More...

Lie Detection and the Law Torture, Technology and Truth

Lie Detection and the Law: Torture, Technology and Truth

1st Edition

By Andrew Balmer
May 16, 2018

This book develops a sociological account of lie detection practices and uses this to think about lying more generally. Bringing together insights from sociology, social history, socio-legal studies and science and technology studies (STS), it explores how torture and technology have been used to ...

Biometrics, Crime and Security

Biometrics, Crime and Security

1st Edition

By Marcus Smith, Monique Mann, Gregor Urbas
February 12, 2018

This book addresses the use of biometrics – including fingerprint identification, DNA identification and facial recognition – in the criminal justice system: balancing the need to ensure society is protected from harms, such as crime and terrorism, while also preserving individual rights. It offers...

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