Rethinking Law, Regulation, and Technology

Roger Brownsword, Professor of Law, King’s College London and Bournemouth University, UK

• Contents: Preface 1. Introduction to Rethinking Law, Regulation, and Technology PART I RETHINKING LAW, REGULATION, AND TECHNOLOGY 2. Rethinking law, rethinking regulation, and rethinking technology 3. The new landscape of law, regulation, and governance PART II RETHINKING LEGALITY, THE RULE OF LAW, AND LEGITIMACY 4. Rethinking legality 5. Rethinking the rule of law 6. Rethinking legitimacy PART III RETHINKING LAW AND REGULATION IN PRACTICE—LAWTECH, REGTECH, AND TECHNOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT 7. Rethinking legal and regulatory practice and the provision of legal services 8 Rethinking disputes and dispute resolution 9. Rethinking crime, control, and channelling PART IV RETHINKING LEGAL AND REGULATORY INSTITUTIONS 10. Rethinking national legal and regulatory institutions 11. Rethinking international legal and regulatory institutions PART V RETHINKING THE INSTITUTION OF LAW, AUTHORITY, AND RESPECT 12. Rethinking the authority of law 13. Rethinking respect for law PART VI RETHINKING THE LAW SCHOOL 14. Teaching law 15. Researching law 16. Concluding remarks Index

‘Any lawyer remotely interested in technology today will find much food for thought in this pioneering text by a leading legal technologist. While the future is always unpredictable, this provides no excuse for forging ahead blindfolded. Professor Brownsword’s careful, reflective study on how law, regulation, and technology may interrelate (both presently and potentially) presents us with the stones by which we can feel our way across the seemingly surging technological river.’