Smart Technologies and the End(s) of Law
Matthew Jewell · SCRIPTed A Journal of Law Technology & Society · 2016
That law and technology contest each other is not itself a new contribution to legal scholarship.However, the scope of this literature is all too frequently concerned only with questions of whether we can, or to what extent we should, regulate the complexities of our technologically infused lives.Mireille Hildebrandt's 1 book goes beyond the concerns of misuse from policy makers and regulators that too often seek to protect "without any sense of what we are protecting" (p.130), instead embarking on a rich and considered exploration of our shifting interactions with emerging technologies and the regulatory problems therein.It is a philosophical pursuit that is as much a study of our legal lives in relation to technological artefacts, as it is a critical inquiry into the nature of modern law.In both respects, it is highly successful.