1st Edition
The Evolution of Law, Regulation and Technology Towards a New Jurisprudence of Governance
1. Introducing ‘Law, Regulation, and Technology’ Part One: Early Days: Questions and Concerns 2. Law, Technology, and Elephants in the Room 3. Ghoulies, Rhosties and Long-leggedy Beasts 4. Human Dignity, Technology and Sleeping Dogs Part Two: Maturity: Challenges and Opportunities 5. Regulation of Technology: Cans of Worms 6. Horses that Bolted 7. Technology and the Regulatory Toolbox: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing? Part Three: Time to Move On: A Turn to Governance 8. From Law and Technology to Governance 9. Things that Go Bump in the Night 10. Sacred Cows Part Four: A New Jurisprudence 11. The Concept of Law and All That 12. Hybrids, tTransitions, and the Rewiring of Governance 13. Anchors, Boundaries and Limits 14. Confluence 15. What the World Needs Now: Good Governance 16. Concluding Reflections
Biography
Roger Brownsword has been an academic lawyer for more than 50 years, currently having professorial positions at King’s College London and the Bournemouth University. His books, which include Law, Technology and Society [Routledge, 2019], Law 3.0 [Routledge, 2020], The Future of Governance: A Radical Introduction to Law [Routledge, 2025] and, most recently, Law, Technology, and Governance [Routledge, 2025], are known throughout the English-speaking world; and, he also has publications in Chinese, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese. He is the founding general editor of Law, Innovation and Technology; 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 (most recently, on machine learning); and he has acted as a specialist adviser to parliamentary committees on stems cells, cloning, and hybrid embryos.
