Technology, Governance and Respect for the Law - 9781032325484

Taylor & Francis

Technology, Governance and Respect for the LawPictures at an Exhibition\nAuthor(s): Roger Brownsword\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032325484, 978-1032325484\nSynopsis\nIn the context of the technological disruption of law and, in particular, the prospect of governance by machines, this book reconsiders the demand that we should respect the law, simply because it is the law. \n\nWhat does the law need to look like to justify our respect? Responding to this question, the book takes the form of a dialectic between, on the one side, the promise of the prospectus for law and, on the other, the discontent provoked by the performance of law in practice; this is followed by a synthesis. Four pictures of law are considered: two are traditional pictures law as order and law as just order; and two are prompted by the technological disruption of law law as governance by machines and law as self-governance by humans. Th.