The Growing Gap Between Emerging Technologies and Legal-Ethical Oversight

This book examines the growing gap between the pace of science and technology and the lagging response of legal and ethical oversight that society relies on to govern emerging technologies. Offers potential paths to more responsive regulation and governance.

At the same time that the pace of science and technology has greatly accelerated in recent decades, our legal and ethical oversight mechanisms have become bogged down and slower. This book addresses the growing gap between the pace of science and technology and the lagging responsiveness of legal and ethical oversight society relies on to govern emerging technologies. Whether it be biotechnology, genetic testing, nanotechnology, synthetic biology, computer privacy, autonomous robotics, or any of the other many emerging technologies, new approaches are needed to ensure appropriate and timely regulatory responses. This book documents the problem and offers a toolbox of potential regulatory and governance approaches that might be used to ensure more responsive oversight.

First book at address a major and growing problem with emerging technologies. Provides concrete suggestions for solutions in addition to documenting problem. Includes chapters from many of the leading experts in technology and regulatory policy

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Part I: The Pacing Problem.-

1. Governance and Technology Systems: The Challenge of Emerging Technologies,Braden R. Allenby, Arizona State University.-2. The Growing Gap Between Emerging Technologies and the Law
   Gary E. Marchant, Arizona State University
   .- 3. Ethical Challenges of Emerging Technologies, Joseph R. Herkert, Arizona State University.-

Part II: Oversight Dynamics for Emerging Technologies.-

4. Public Policy on the Technological Frontier
   David Rejeski, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.-
5. Software Agents, Anticipatory Ethics, and Accountability
   Deborah G. Johnson, University of Virginia.- 6. Sui Generis Rules
   Lyria Bennett Moses, University of New South Wales.-7. Anticipatory Governance of Emerging Technologies
   Daniel Sarewitz, Arizona State University.-

Part III: A Toolbox of Solutions.-

8. Pacing Science and Technology with Codes of Conduct: Rethinking What Works, Brian Rappert, University of Exeter
   .-9. An International Framework Agreement on Scientific and Technological Innovation and Regulation, Kenneth W. Abbott, Arizona State University.-10. Principles-Based Regulation and Emerging Technology, Ruth Carter & Gary Marchant, Arizona State University.-11. Administrative Law Tools for More Adaptive and Responsive Regulation, Lyn Gaudet & Gary Marchant, Arizona State University.- 12. Voluntary Programs, Kathleen Waugh & Gary Marchant, Arizona State University.-Conclusion: Gary Marchant, Arizona State University.