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.
Law and the Management of Disasters: The Challenge of Resilience
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexia Herwig, Marta Simoncini
June 14, 2018
Disasters raise serious challenges for contemporary legal orders: they demand significant management, but usually amidst massive disruption to the normal functioning of state authority and society. When dealing with disasters, law has traditionally focused on contingency planning and recovery. More...
Biometrics, Crime and Security
1st Edition
By Marcus Smith, Monique Mann, Gregor Urbas
February 12, 2018
This book addresses the use of biometrics – including fingerprint identification, DNA identification and facial recognition – in the criminal justice system: balancing the need to ensure society is protected from harms, such as crime and terrorism, while also preserving individual rights. It offers...
Knowledge, Technology and Law
1st Edition
Edited
By Emilie Cloatre, Martyn Pickersgill
March 03, 2016
The relationships between knowledge, technologies, and legal processes are central to the constitution of contemporary societies. As such, they have come to provide the focus for a range of academic projects, across interdisciplinary legal studies and the social sciences. The domains of ...
The Regulation of Animal Health and Welfare: Science, Law and Policy
1st Edition
By John McEldowney, Wyn Grant, Graham Medley
June 08, 2015
The Regulation of Animal Health and Welfare draws on the research of scientists, lawyers, economists and political scientists to address the current and future regulatory problems posed by the issues of animal health and disease. Recent events such as the outbreak of mad cow disease, ...
Uncertain Risks Regulated
1st Edition
Edited
By Ellen Vos, Michelle Everson
October 10, 2012
Uncertain Risks Regulated compares various models of risk regulation in order to understand how these systems shape the relationship between law and science, and how they attempt to overcome public distrust in science-based decision-making. The book contributes to...
Absent Environments: Theorising Environmental Law and the City
1st Edition
By Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
December 21, 2009
Offering a novel, transdisciplinary approach to environmental law, its principles, mechanics and context, as tested in its application to the urban environment, this book traces the conceptual and material absence of communication between the human and the natural and controversially includes such ...