Routledge Research in the Law of Emerging Technologies
Emerging Technology and the Law: Bridging the Gap Between Innovation and Regulation
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By Purvi Pokhariyal, Archana Patel, Navtika Singh Nautiyal, Ambrish Kumar Mishra
April 21, 2026
This book explores the multifaceted implications of technological innovation on legal systems, addressing how emerging technologies enhance, challenge, and necessitate reform in legal practice and governance, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Blockchain. Technological ...
AI and Tort Liability: Rethinking, Recalibrating, and Reallocating Risk and Responsibility
1st Edition
By Juan Diaz-Granados
February 25, 2026
This book provides a novel framework for adapting tort law to the challenges of artificial intelligence in all of its forms -- from machine learning to generative models to autonomous and agentic systems. Centred on a liability matrix, this book maps AI systems into four zones according to their ...
The Global Governance of AI: The Role of the United Nations
1st Edition
By Kinfe Yilma
December 31, 2025
This book explores the global governance of artificial intelligence (AI) against the background of unprecedented technological advances in recent years. It offers the first comprehensive examination of the role of the United Nations in global AI governance. Drawing upon recent governance ...
Legal, Regulatory and Ethical Non-binary Choices of the AI Act
1st Edition
By Tomasz Braun, Dominika Harasimiuk
December 03, 2025
This book investigates the complex ethical dilemmas underpinning AI regulation, analysing the EU Artificial Intelligence Act in the context of the fundamental values and ambitious expectations that have accompanied it initially. This book posits a pioneering regulatory framework to ensure the ...
The Regulation of Digital Technologies in the EU: Act-ification, GDPR Mimesis and EU Law Brutality at Play
1st Edition
By Vagelis Papakonstantinou, Paul De Hert
November 28, 2025
EU regulatory initiatives concerning technology-related topics have spiked over the past few years. On the basis of its Priorities Programme, which is focused on making Europe ‘Fit for the Digital Age’, the European Commission has been busily releasing new texts aimed at regulating a number of ...
The European Union and Digital Law: Normative Power in a Globalized Technological Landscape
1st Edition
By Yuval Reinfeld, Aviv Gaon
October 28, 2025
This book introduces the concept of Technical Normative Power (TNP) to explain how the European Union (EU) transforms internal legal frameworks into external influence. Over the past two decades, the EU has emerged as a global regulatory force in the digital age. As technologies such as big data, ...
Web3 Governance: Law and Policy
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By Joseph Lee, Jyh-An Lee
February 24, 2025
Focusing on four key aspects of Web3, the book explores metaverses, data governance, public and private law interfaces, and access to justice, presenting new research on the impact of data analytics on transactions within law, on regulatory activities, and on the practice of law. Artificial ...
AI and Legal Education: Ethical and Sustainable Approaches
1st Edition
By Anil Balan
February 04, 2025
This book provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis of the sustainable and ethical integration of artificial intelligence (AI) within legal education, offering practical strategies for balancing innovation with ethical responsibility. Discussing the intersection of legal studies, ...
Social Media, Criminal Law and Legality
1st Edition
By Laura Higson-Bliss
October 29, 2024
Utilising Lon Fuller’s conception of legality, this book argues that current legal provisions often used to control online abuse aided by social media do not conform to the basic principles of legality in the criminal law, in turn, threatening freedom of expression. How we regulate inappropriate ...
Privacy, Data Protection and Data-driven Technologies
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By Martin Ebers, Karin Sein
September 05, 2024
This book brings together contributions from leading scholars in law and technology, analysing the privacy issues raised by new data-driven technologies. Highlighting the challenges that technology poses to existing European Union (EU) data protection laws, the book assesses whether current legal ...
Regulating the Metaverse: A Critical Assessment
1st Edition
By Ignas Kalpokas, Julija Kalpokienė
August 26, 2024
The metaverse seems to be on everybody’s lips – and yet, very few people can actually explain what it means or why it is important. This book aims to fill the gap from an interdisciplinary perspective informed by law and media and communications studies. Going beyond the optimism emanating from ...
Digital Constitutionalism: The Role of Internet Bills of Rights
1st Edition
By Edoardo Celeste
May 27, 2024
Investigating the impact of digital technology on contemporary constitutionalism, this book offers an overview of the transformations that are currently occurring at constitutional level, highlighting their link with ongoing societal changes. It reconstructs the multiple ways in which ...