Rights, Regulation, and the Technological Revolution (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199276806)

Rights, Regulation and the Technological Revolution confronts a central question facing modern government - how can regulators respond to both the challenges and opportunities presented by a technologically-driven society without sacrificing legitimacy for effectiveness, or weakening the essential conditions of a stable, aspirant moral community?

Analyzing developments across biotechnology, information and communications technology, nanotechnology and neurotechnology, the book explores the difficulties facing the public control of rapid technological change, focusing on the problems of regulatory effectiveness, connection, legitimacy and compliance. The book argues that as regulators struggle to find adequate frameworks to limit, license and support new technologies, they will increasingly rely on a technological approach to complement, enhance, and even replace traditional legal strategies.

The book breaks new ground by offering the first overarching commentary on the relationship between regulators, industry, and wider society as the new technologies of the twenty-first century achieve an ever-greater penetration in our daily lives.

Author: Roger Brownsword
ISBN-10: 0199276803
ISBN-13: 9780199276806
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/11/2008
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.50w x 0.99d