The Oxford Handbook of Law, Regulation and Technology (Oxford Handbooks)
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Rating | : | 4.93 (757 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0199680833 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 1216 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2015-11-22 |
Language | : | English |
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These technological developments, which include advances in networked information and communications, biotechnology, neurotechnology, nanotechnology, robotics, and environmental engineering technology, have raised a number of vital and complex questions. Although these technologies have the potential to generate positive transformation and help address 'grand societal challenges', the novelty associated with technological innovation has also been accompanied by anxieties about their risks and destabilizing effects. The variety, pace, and power of technological innovations that have emerged in the 21st Century have been breathtaking. Is th
She also represents the United Kingdom in the Avosetta Group of EU environmental law experts.Karen Yeung is a Professor of Law at King's College London and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Melbourne Law School. Roger Brownsword, Professor of Law, King's College London,Eloise Scotford, Senior Lecturer in Law, The Dickson Poon School of Law,Karen Yeung, Professor of Law at King's College London; Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Melbourne Law School,
Dr Scotford is Associate Member of Landmark Chambers, a visiting lecturer in environmental law at Bocconi University in Milan, and Analysis Editor for the Journal of Environmental Law. She has established an international reputation in two fields: as an academic pioneer in helping to establish the intellectual coherence and value of regulation studies (or 'regulatory governance' studies) as a field of scholarly inquiry and as a leading scholar concerned with critically examining the governance of, and governance through, new and emerging technologies. Her current research focuses on critically evaluati