What if law shaped technologies?
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28-06-2018
Existing legal structures may prove a poor match for new types of disputes raised by disruptive technologies. Can the legal system overcome the temporal gap between the emergence of a technology and the subsequent need for controlling its possible effects and retain both flexibility and responsiveness? What regulation is justified by a particular technology? How should a particular technology be regulated? How can law regulate uncertain and unknown futures in the face of limited knowledge?
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- drafting of EU law
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- EUROPEAN UNION
- European Union law
- executive power and public service
- impact of information technology
- information technology and data processing
- LAW
- legal code
- legislative drafting
- parliamentary proceedings
- POLITICS
- PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
- regulatory policy
- sources and branches of the law
- technological change
- technology and technical regulations