Future Law

How will law, regulation and ethics govern a future of fast-changing technologies?

• 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

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.

Contributors

Paul Bernal Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of East Anglia

Damian Clifford Flemish Research Council (FWO) Aspirant Fellow, KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law

Melissa de Zwart Dean of Law, Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide

Catherine Easton Reader in Law, University of Lancaster

Lilian Edwards Professor of Law, Innovation and Society, Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University

Andres Guadamuz Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law, University of Sussex

Rob Hamper PhD Candidate, University of New South Wales

Edina Harbinja Senior Lecturer in Media/Privacy Law, Aston Law School, Aston University

Andrew Katz Partner, Moorcrofts LLP, UK and Visiting Researcher, University of Skövde, Sweden

Michaela MacDonald Teaching Fellow, Queen Mary University, London

Alana Maurushat Professor of Cybersecurity and Behaviour, Western Sydney University

Miranda Mowbray Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Bristol

Andelka M Phillips Senior Lecturer, Te Piringa (Faculty of Law), University of Waikato, and Research Associate, Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX), University of Oxford

Burkhard Schafer Professor of Computational Legal Theory, School of Law, University of Edinburgh

Lachlan D Urquhart Lecturer in Technology Law, School of Law, University of Edinburgh and Visiting Research Fellow, Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham