Foresighting Futures: Law, New Technologies, and the Challenges of Regulating for Uncertainty

Graeme Laurie; Shawn Harmon; Fabiana Arzuaga

doi:10.5235/175799612800650626

Foresighting Futures: Law, New Technologies, and the Challenges of Regulating for Uncertainty

Graeme Laurie, Shawn Harmon, Fabiana Arzuaga

School of Law

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This paper is concerned with making law more effective in its social operation and in its relationship with dynamic, complex and uncertain science. It explores how we might better regulate by considering the concept and role of 'legal foresighting'. It argues that legal foresighting is eminently justifiable and needs to be expanded, enhanced, and vastly improved. It offers a framework for performing legal foresighting in the face of new and emerging technologies, drawing in particular on the authors' experience in the bioscience and biotechnologies context.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-33
Number of pages	33
Journal	Law, Innovation and Technology
Volume	4
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5235/175799612800650626
Publication status	Published - 2012

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FORESIGHTING FUTURES
© Laurie, G., Harmon, S., & Arzuaga, F. (2012). Foresighting Futures: Law, New Technologies, and the Challenges of Regulating for Uncertainty. Law, Innovation and Technology, 4(1), 1-33. 10.5235/175799612800650626
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GET: Social Values: Governing emerging biotechnologies
Harmon, S.
ESRC
1/04/08 → 31/03/10
Project: Research
AHRC/SCRIPT: AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law
Laurie, G., Craufurd-Smith, R., Guadamuz, A., MacQueen, H., Schafer, B. & Waelde, C.
AHRC
1/04/07 → 30/06/12
Project: Research

Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
Shawn Harmon (Speaker)
1 Dec 2014
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

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