This book provides the first panoramic commentary on the dynamics of regulation in the face of what is arguably a twenty-first century technological revolution. It examines how rapid technological change has transformed the relationship between regulators and wider society, and analyses the major challenges facing regulation as new technologies continue to develop.

Roger Brownsword is Director of TELOS (a newly created research centre focusing on technology, ethics, law, and society) and Professor of Law at King's College London. He also maintains a long-standing link with the University of Sheffield as an Honorary Professor in Law.

• 1: The Technologies of the Twenty-First Century: Regulatory Challenge and Regulatory Opportunity


• Part One: Regulatory Challenge


• 2: The Challenge of Regulatory Legitimacy I


• 3: The Challenge of Regulatory Legitimacy II


• 4: The Challenge of Regulatory Legitimacy III


• 5: The Challenge of Regulatory Effectiveness


• 6: The Challenge of Regulatory Connection


• 7: The Challenge of Regulatory Cosmopolitanism


• Part Two: Regulatory Opportunity


• 8: Genetic Databases and the First Signs of Regulatory Opportunity


• 9: Seizing the Regulatory Opportunity: Code and Control


• 10: Code and the Corrosion of Moral Community


• 11: Regulating Technologies: Challenge and Opportunity