Law and Emerging Technologies
A special issue of Laws (ISSN 2075-471X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2023) | Viewed by 4533
Special Issue Editors
Interests: regulation of emerging technologies; law and reproductive/genetic technologies; artificial intelligence, robotics and law; law and digital technologies; end of life law and ethics; neurolaw
Interests: health law; regulation of reproduction (assisted and unassisted); law and biomedical technologies; criminal law
Interests: medical and criminal law; the regulation of assisted reproductive technologies and issues in relation to the ability of a parent/guardian to consent to medical treatment for a child
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The exponential growth in technology-based research, development, and deployment, particularly the convergence of existing technologies with that of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, has caused disruptive and transformative affects globally. Technologies such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, virtual and augmented reality, blockchain technology, and nanotechnology are changing the ways in which we live, learn, work and engage with one another. Yet, the development and implementation of technology is rarely neutral: technologies have the capacity to impact the way that societies develop and evolve. At the same time, societies also have choices about how those technologies develop and evolve, not least in terms of the rules we choose to set around them.
Law is an important mediator in facilitating the technological imperative, whilst mitigating its adverse effects and promoting technological prudence. However, this is no small task given widely divergent ethical, social, and cultural perspectives and highly variable appetites for different kinds of risks.
The aim of this Special Issue is to provide a forum for considering some of the regulatory challenges, and regulatory strategies that are or may be adopted with respect to new and emerging, as well as evolving, technologies.
Research areas may include (but are not limited to):
- Medical law (reproductive technology genomics, AI)
- Criminal law (neurotechnology, facial recognition technology, biometric data, AI)
- Commercial law (block chain and distributed ledger technologies, AI)
- Internet law (digital privacy, cyber security, harmful online conduct)
- Human Rights (AI, discrimination, inequality)
- Indigenous peoples (data sovereignty, intellectual property, bioprospecting, biopiracy)
Prof. Dr. Colin Gavaghan
Dr. Jeanne Snelling
Dr. Debra Wilson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- artificial intelligence
- biotechnology
- digital technology
- reproductive technology
- blockchain
- genomics
- neurotechnology