Technology: New Trajectories in Law

Placing contemporary technological developments in their historical context, this book argues for the importance of law in their regulation.

Technological developments are focused upon overcoming physical and human constraints. There are no normative constraints inherent in the quest for ongoing and future technological development. In contrast, law proffers an essential normative constraint. Just because we can do something, does not mean that we should. Through the application of critical legal theory and jurisprudence to pro-actively engage with technology, this book demonstrates why legal thinking should be prioritised in emerging technological futures. This book articulates classic skills and values such as ethics and justice to ensure that future and ongoing legal engagements with socio-technological developments are tempered by legal normative constraints.

Encouraging them to foreground questions of justice and critique when thinking about law and technology, the book addresses law students and teachers, lawyers and critical thinkers concerned with the proliferation of technology in our lives.

將當代科技發展置於其歷史背景中，本書主張法律在其規範中的重要性。

科技發展的焦點在於克服物理和人類的限制。在持續和未來的科技發展中，沒有固有的規範限制。相反，法律提供了一個必要的規範限制。僅僅因為我們「能夠」做某事，並不意味著我們「應該」這樣做。通過將批判性法律理論和法學應用於積極參與科技，本書展示了為什麼在新興科技未來中應該優先考慮法律思維。本書闡述了倫理和正義等經典技能和價值觀，以確保未來和持續的法律參與與社會技術發展受到法律規範限制的調節。

本書鼓勵在思考法律和技術時，將正義和批判性納入考慮，針對法律學生和教師、律師和關注科技在我們生活中普及化的批判性思想者。

Penny Crofts is Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney.

Honni van Rijswijk is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney.

Penny Crofts是悉尼科技大學法學院的教授。

Honni van Rijswijk是悉尼科技大學法學院的高級講師。