1st Edition
Law, Technology and Society Reimagining the Regulatory Environment
By Roger Brownsword
Copyright 2019
361 Pages
by
Routledge
361 Pages
by
Routledge
361 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 management—designed into products, processes, places and so on—what should we make of this transformation?... Read more
CONTENTS
Preface
Prologue
- In the Year 2061: From Law to Technological Management
- The Regulatory Environment: An Extended Field of Inquiry
- The ‘Complexion’ of the Regulatory Environment
- Three Regulatory Responsibilities: Red Lines, Reasonableness, and Technological Management
- The Ideal of Legality and the Rule of Law
- The Ideal of Coherence
- The Liberal Critique of Coercion: Law, Liberty and Technology
- Legal Rules, Technological Disruption, and Legal/Regulatory Mind-Sets
- Regulating Crime: The Future of the Criminal Law
- Regulating Interactions: The Future of Tort Law
- Regulating Transactions: The Future of Contracts
- Regulating the Information Society: The Future of Privacy, Data Protection Law and Consent
- In the Year 2161
Part One: Re-imagining the Regulatory Environment
Part Two: Re-imagining Legal Values
Part Three: Re-imagining Legal Rules
Epilogue
Biography
Roger Brownsword has professorial appointments in the Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London and in the Department of Law at Bournemouth University, and he is an honorary Professor in Law at the University of Sheffield.
