Law in a Technological Context

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.

• Introduction to Law in a Technological Context: Disruptions and Transitions 1. Law, Authority, and Respect: Three Waves of Technological Disruption 2. Private Law and Technology: Beyond Fighting Fires and Fanning the Flames 3. Regulating Human Enhancement: Things Can Only Get Better? 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? 5. Friends, Romans, and Countrymen: Is There a Universal Right to Identity? 6. From Erewhon to Alpha Go: For the Sake of Human Dignity Should We Destroy the Machines? 7. Regulating Patient Safety: Is it Time for a Technological Response? 8. In the Year 2061: From Law to Technological Management 9. Technological Management and the Rule of Law