The Impact of Technological Change on Law

Résumé du livre

This Thesis explores the relationship between technological change and legal rules. It identifies the types of difficulties encountered as technology changes and explores means that might be employed to minimise these difficulties. As technology changes, there are four types of legal dilemmas that might arise: (1) there may be a need for laws to ban, restrict or, alternatively, encourage a new technology; (2) there may be uncertainty in the application of existing legal rules to new practices; (3) existing rules may be over-inclusive or under-inclusive when applied to new practices; and (4) existing rules may become obsolete.