Routledge Research in the Law of Emerging Technologies
The European Union and Digital Law: Normative Power in a Globalized Technological Landscape
1st Edition
By Yuval Reinfeld, Aviv Gaon
October 16, 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
1st Edition
Edited
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
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...
Internet of Things and the Law: Legal Strategies for Consumer-Centric Smart Technologies
1st Edition
By Guido Noto La Diega
May 27, 2024
Internet of Things and the Law: Legal Strategies for Consumer-Centric Smart Technologies is the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the legal issues in the Internet of Things (IoT). For decades, the decreasing importance of tangible wealth and power – and the increasing significance of ...
The EU Artificial Intelligence Act: Regulating Subliminal AI Systems
1st Edition
By Rostam J. Neuwirth
May 27, 2024
AI in combination with other innovative technologies promises to bring unprecedented opportunities to all aspects of life. These technologies, however, hold great dangers, especially for the manipulation of the human mind, which have given rise to serious ethical concerns. Apart from some sectoral ...
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
March 19, 2024
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 ...
Cryptocurrencies and the Regulatory Challenge
1st Edition
By Allan C. Hutchinson
January 29, 2024
As a social process that places great stock in its stability and predictability, law does not deal easily or well with change. In a modern world that is in a constant and rapid state of flux, law is being placed under considerable stress in its efforts to fulfill its task as a primary regulator of ...
Regulating Artificial Intelligence in Industry
1st Edition
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By Damian M. Bielicki
January 29, 2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has augmented human activities and unlocked opportunities for many sectors of the economy. It is used for data management and analysis, decision making, and many other aspects. As with most rapidly advancing technologies, law is often playing a catch up role so the...