Future Law

How will law, regulation and ethics govern a future of fast-changing technologies?
'From current controversies over Internet content, privacy and radicalisation, to science fiction and "Black Mirror" visions of the future, pervasive fears exist that technology inevitably outpaces law and social control' - 'Future Law' responds to these fears by exploring how law and ethics can foresee and control new technologies that challenge our societal norms and expectations.
Bringing together cutting-edge authors from academia, legal practice and the technology industry, this book explores and leverages the power of human imagination in understanding, critiquing and improving the legal responses to technological change.
Key Features
¿ Focuses on the practical difficulties of applying law, policy and ethical structures to emergent technologies both now and in the future
¿ Covers crucial current issues such as big data ethics, ubiquitous surveillance and the Internet of Things, and disruptive technologies such as autonomous vehicles, DIY genetics and robot agents
¿ Asks where law might go next and how to regulate new-phase technology such as artificial intelligence, 'smart homes' and automated emotion recognition
¿ Uses examples from popular culture such as books, films, TV and Instagram - including 'Black Mirror', 'Disney Princesses', 'Star Wars', 'Doctor Who' and 'Rick and Morty' - to bring hypothetical examples to life
Lilian Edwards is Chair of Law, Innovation and Society at Newcastle University
Burkhard Schafer is Professor of Computational Legal Theory at the University of Edinburgh, and co-founder and co-director of the Joseph Bell Centre for Legal Reasoning and Forensic Statistics
Edina Harbinja is Senior Lecturer in Media/Privacy Law at Aston University Edina Harbinja