Rights Regulation and the Technological Revolution

Rights Regulation and the Technological Revolution confronts a central question facing modern government - how can regulators respond to both the challenges and opportunities presented by a technologically driven society without sacrificing legitimacy for effectiveness or weakening the essential conditions of a stable aspirant moral community? Analysing developments across biotechnology information and communications technology nanotechnology and neurotechnology the book explores the difficulties facing the public control of rapid technological change focusing on the problems of regulatory effectiveness connection legitimacy and compliance. The book argues that as regulators struggle to find adequate frameworks to limit license and support new technologies they will increasingly rely on a technological approach to complement enhance and even replace traditional legal strategies. The book breaks new ground by offering the first overarching commentary on the relationship b