- The Oxford Handbook of Law, Regulation, and Technology
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Law, Regulation, and Technology: The Field, Frame, and Focal Questions
- Law, Liberty, and Technology
- Equality: Old Debates, New Technologies
- Liberal Democratic Regulation and Technological Advance
- Identity
- The Common Good
- Law, Responsibility, and the Sciences of the Brain/Mind
- Human Dignity and the Ethics and Regulation of Technology
- Human Rights and Human Tissue: The Case of Sperm as Property
- Legal Evolution in Response to Technological Change
- Law and Technology in Civil Judicial Procedures
- Conflict of Laws and the Internet
- Technology and the American Constitution
- Contract Law and the Challenges of Computer Technology
- Criminal Law and the Evolving Technological Understanding of Behaviour
- Imagining Technology and Environmental Law
- From Improvement Towards Enhancement: A Regenesis of EU Environmental Law at the Dawn of the Anthropocene
- Parental Responsibility, Hyper-parenting, and the Role of Technology
- Human Rights and Information Technologies
- The CoExistence of Copyright and Patent Laws to Protect InnovationA Case Study of 3D Printing in UK and Australian Law
- Regulating Workplace Technology: Extending the Agenda
- Public International Law and the Regulation of Emerging Technologies
- Torts and Technology
- Tax Law and Technological Change
- Crime, Security, and Information Communication Technologies: The Changing Cybersecurity Threat Landscape and its Implications for Regulation and Policing
- Debating Autonomous Weapon Systems, their Ethics, and their Regulation under International Law
- Genetic Engineering and Biological Risks: Policy Formation and Regulatory Response
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter serves three objectives. First, it provides a narrative account of key developments in core bioengineering technologies. Second, it critically interrogates the emergence and evolution of regulatory regimes aimed at responding to perceived risks associated with these technological capabilities, highlighting how these have primarily relied on establishing ‘soft’ forms of control rather than hard edged legal frameworks backed by coercive sanctions, largely in the form of self-regulation by the scientific research community (with some notification provisions to keep the relevant government informed). Third, it provides an analysis of this regulatory evolution, focusing on the narrow construction of risk, and flagging up the possibility of alternative framings, which might have generated more inclusive and deliberative approaches to standard-setting and oversight.
Keywords: recombinant DNA, genetically modified organisms, biosafety, biosecurity, select agents, potentially pandemic pathogens, CRISPR, synthetic biology, dual use research of concern
Filippa Lentzos, King’s College London
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- The Oxford Handbook of Law, Regulation, and Technology
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Law, Regulation, and Technology: The Field, Frame, and Focal Questions
- Law, Liberty, and Technology
- Equality: Old Debates, New Technologies
- Liberal Democratic Regulation and Technological Advance
- Identity
- The Common Good
- Law, Responsibility, and the Sciences of the Brain/Mind
- Human Dignity and the Ethics and Regulation of Technology
- Human Rights and Human Tissue: The Case of Sperm as Property
- Legal Evolution in Response to Technological Change
- Law and Technology in Civil Judicial Procedures
- Conflict of Laws and the Internet
- Technology and the American Constitution
- Contract Law and the Challenges of Computer Technology
- Criminal Law and the Evolving Technological Understanding of Behaviour
- Imagining Technology and Environmental Law
- From Improvement Towards Enhancement: A Regenesis of EU Environmental Law at the Dawn of the Anthropocene
- Parental Responsibility, Hyper-parenting, and the Role of Technology
- Human Rights and Information Technologies
- The CoExistence of Copyright and Patent Laws to Protect InnovationA Case Study of 3D Printing in UK and Australian Law
- Regulating Workplace Technology: Extending the Agenda
- Public International Law and the Regulation of Emerging Technologies
- Torts and Technology
- Tax Law and Technological Change
- Crime, Security, and Information Communication Technologies: The Changing Cybersecurity Threat Landscape and its Implications for Regulation and Policing
- Debating Autonomous Weapon Systems, their Ethics, and their Regulation under International Law
- Genetic Engineering and Biological Risks: Policy Formation and Regulatory Response
- Index
