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Law in a Technological Context Disruptions and Transitions
Introduction to Law in a Technological Context: Disruptions and Transitions
Roger Brownsword
Section I: Disruption as the Context
1. Law, Authority, and Respect: Three Waves of Technological Disruption
Roger Brownsword
2. Private Law and Technology: Beyond Fighting Fires and Fanning the Flames
Roger Brownsword
Section II: Regulating Transition as the Context
3. Regulating Human Enhancement: Things Can Only Get Better?
Roger Brownsword
4. New Genetic Tests, New Research Findings: Do Patients and Participants Have a Right to Know—and Do They Have a Right Not to Know?
Roger Brownsword
5. Friends, Romans, and Countrymen: Is There a Universal Right to Identity?
Roger Brownsword
6. From Erewhon to Alpha Go: For the Sake of Human Dignity Should We Destroy the Machines?
Roger Brownsword
Section III: Regulatory Transition as the Context
7. Regulating Patient Safety: Is it Time for a Technological Response?
Roger Brownsword
8. In the Year 2061: From Law to Technological Management
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9. Technological Management and the Rule of Law
Roger Brownsword
Biography
Roger Brownsword has been an academic lawyer for more than 50 years, currently having professorial positions at King’s College London, UK, and Bournemouth University, UK. His books (most recently, The Future of Governance: A Radical Introduction to Law) are known throughout the English-speaking world, and he also has publications in Chinese, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese. He was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (2004–2010) and Chair of UK Biobank’s Ethics and Governance Council (2011–2015); he has served on working parties in the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society; and he has acted as a specialist adviser to parliamentary committees on stems cells, cloning, and hybrid embryos.
