This book considers the implications of the regulatory burden being borne increasingly by technological management rather than by rules of law. If crime is controlled, if human health and safety is secured, if the environment is protected, not by rules but by measures of technological management, what should we make of this transformation?

Roger Brownsword has professorial appointments in the Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London and in the Department of Law at Bournemouth University, and he is an honorary Professor in Law at the University of Sheffield.

CONTENTS

Preface

Prologue

1. In the Year 2061: From Law to Technological Management

Part One: Re-imagining the Regulatory Environment

2. The Regulatory Environment: An Extended Field of Inquiry
3. The 'Complexion' of the Regulatory Environment
4. Three Regulatory Responsibilities: Red Lines, Reasonableness, and Technological Management

Part Two: Re-imagining Legal Values

5. The Ideal of Legality and the Rule of Law
6. The Ideal of Coherence
7. The Liberal Critique of Coercion: Law, Liberty and Technology

Part Three: Re-imagining Legal Rules

8. Legal Rules, Technological Disruption, and Legal/Regulatory Mind-Sets
9. Regulating Crime: The Future of the Criminal Law
10. Regulating Interactions: The Future of Tort Law
11. Regulating Transactions: The Future of Contracts
12. Regulating the Information Society: The Future of Privacy, Data Protection Law and Consent

Epilogue

13. In the Year 2161