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Title Regulating technologies : legal futures, regulatory frames and technological fixes / edited by Roger Brownsword and Karen Yeung
Published Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 396 pages)
Contents Regulating technologies : tools, targets, and thematics / Roger Brownsword and Karen Yeung -- So what does the world need now? Reflections on regulating technologies / Roger Brownsword -- Crime control technologies : towards an analytical framework and research agenda / Ben Bowling, Amber Marks, and Cian Murphy -- Towards an understanding of regulation by design / Karen Yeung -- Internet filtering : rhetoric, legitimacy, accountability, and responsibility / T.J. McIntyre and Colin Scott -- Perfect enforcement on tomorrow's Internet / Jonathan Zittrain -- Criteria for normative technology : the acceptability of 'code as law' in light of democratic and constitutional values / Bert-Jaap Koops -- A vision of ambient law / Mireille Hildebrandt -- The trouble with technology regulation : why Lessig's 'optimal mix' will not work / Serge Gutwirth, Paul De Hert, and Laurent De Sutter -- Cloning Trojan horses : precautionary regulation of reproductive technologies / Han Somsen -- The transplantation of human fetal brain tissue : the Swiss federal law / Andrea Büchler -- Tools for technology regulation : seeking analytical approaches beyond Lessig and Hood / Charles D. Raab and Paul De Hert -- Conceptualising the post-regulatory (cyber)state / Andrew D. Murray -- Vicissitudes of imaging, imprisonment, and intentionality / Judy Illes -- Taming matter for the welfare of humanity : regulating nanotechnology / Hailemichael Teshome Demissie -- Regulating renewable energy technologies : the Chinese experience / Deng Haifeng -- New frontier : regulating technology by law and 'code' / Michael Kirby
Summary While it is a truism that emerging technologies present both opportunities for and challenges to their host communities, the legal community has only recently begun to consider their significance. On the one hand, emerging information, bio, nano, and neurotechnologies challenge policy-makers who aspire to put in place a regulatory environment that is legitimate, effective, and sustainable; on the other hand, these same technologies offer new opportunities as potentially powerful regulatory instruments. In this unique volume, a team of leading international scholars address many of the key diffi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Technology and law.
Technological innovations -- Law and legislation.
LAW -- Business & Financial.
LAW -- Intellectual Property -- General.
Technological innovations -- Law and legislation
Technology and law
Form Electronic book
Author Brownsword, Roger.
Yeung, Karen
ISBN 9781847314642
1847314643
1282048538
9781282048539
9781472564559
1472564553