What if technologies shaped the law?
At a Glance
07-06-2018
Is there a relationship between law, technological innovation, and regulatory governance? Are technologies ordinary objects of formal law that can fit into the traditional doctrinal classification? What if technologies were legal artefacts that question and challenge the traditional boundaries of legal thought? Has technology been developed to the extent that it exerts the functions of law? Is there a gradual shift from the traditional notion of "code is law" (i.e. code having the effect of law) to the new conception of "law is code"?
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- blockchain
- 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