Law, Science and Society
About the Book Series
Traditionally, the role of law has been to implement political decisions concerning the relationship between science and society. Increasingly, however, as our understanding of the complex dynamic between law, science and society deepens, this instrumental characterisation is seen to be inadequate, but as yet we have only a limited conception of what might take its place. In short, there is a need for new research and scholarship, and it is to that need that this series responds.
The Legal Regulation of Academic Freedom: The Case of Biomedicine
1st Edition
By Lucia Pallier
November 12, 2025
This book compares and examines the ways in which law addresses and resolves conflicts between academic freedom and responsibility. Academic freedom is an important value in the modern scientific and technologically driven world. Societies depend heavily on the commodities of scientific progress, ...
The Regulation of Medical Products: Dope, Drugs and Devices
1st Edition
By Penny Gleeson
December 31, 2024
This book develops a theoretical framework for examining and assessing the regulatory arrangements for medical products. Since the first half of the 20th century, the regulation of pharmaceuticals, medical devices and, more recently, biologicals have been controlled in many jurisdictions by ...
Law and the Regulation of Scientific Research: Trusting Experts
1st Edition
By Mark Davies
May 27, 2024
Scientific research is fundamental to addressing issues of great importance to the development of human knowledge. Scientific research fuels advances in medicine, technology and other areas important to society and has to be credible, trustworthy and able to command confidence in the face of ...
Law, Ecology, and the Management of Complex Systems: The Case of Water Governance
1st Edition
By Tiina Paloniitty
May 27, 2024
This book addresses the role of law in the adaptive management of socio-ecological systems. Recent years have witnessed a rise in discussion over the relation between adaptivity and law, as if after decades of insouciance, legal scholars have finally started to understand the impacts of the ...
The Use of Biodiversity in International Law: A Genealogy of Genetic Gold
1st Edition
By Andreas Kotsakis
January 09, 2023
This book presents a legal genealogy of biodiversity – of its strategic use before and after the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 1993. This history of ‘genetic gold’ details how, with the aid of international law, the idea of biodiversity has been instrumentalized towards ...
Zoo Veterinarians: Governing Care on a Diseased Planet
1st Edition
By Irus Braverman
April 15, 2022
Despite their centrality to the operation of contemporary accredited zoo and aquarium institutions, the work of zoo veterinarians has rarely been the focus of a critical analysis in the social science and humanities. Drawing on in-depth interviews and observations of zoo and aquarium veterinarians,...
Law, Technology and Dispute Resolution: The Privatisation of Coercion
1st Edition
By Riikka Koulu
September 30, 2020
The use of new information and communication technologies both inside the courts and in private online dispute resolution services is quickly changing everyday conflict management. However, the implications of the increasingly disruptive role of technology in dispute resolution remain largely ...
Lie Detection and the Law: Torture, Technology and Truth
1st Edition
By Andrew Balmer
December 12, 2019
This book develops a sociological account of lie detection practices and uses this to think about lying more generally. Bringing together insights from sociology, social history, socio-legal studies and science and technology studies (STS), it explores how torture and technology have been used to ...
Complexity Theory and Law: Mapping an Emergent Jurisprudence
1st Edition
Edited
By Jamie Murray, Thomas Webb, Steven Wheatley
December 03, 2019
This collection of essays explores the different ways the insights from complexity theory can be applied to law. Complexity theory – a variant of systems theory – views law as an emergent, complex, self-organising system comprised of an interactive network of actors and systems that operate with no...
A Socio-Legal Study of Hacking: Breaking and Remaking Law and Technology
1st Edition
By Michael Anthony C. Dizon
March 21, 2019
The relationship between hacking and the law has always been complex and conflict-ridden. This book examines the relations and interactions between hacking and the law with a view to understanding how hackers influence and are influenced by technology laws and policies. In our increasingly digital ...
Law, Technology and Society: Reimagining the Regulatory Environment
1st Edition
By Roger Brownsword
February 25, 2019
This book considers the implications of the regulatory burden being borne increasingly by technological management rather than by rules of law. If crime is controlled, if human health and safety are secured, if the environment is protected, not by rules but by measures of technological ...
Gene Editing, Law, and the Environment: Life Beyond the Human
1st Edition
Edited
By Irus Braverman
January 03, 2019
Technologies like CRISPR and gene drives are ushering in a new era of genetic engineering, wherein the technical means to modify DNA are cheaper, faster, more accurate, more widely accessible, and with more far-reaching effects than ever before. These cutting-edge technologies raise legal, ethical,...