Anyone who has switched on a computer in the past few years will have noticed that cyberspace is a lot more complicated than it was when email first took off.
Gone are the charming ‘you’ve got mail’ notifications that triggered a frisson of excitement. Today, we are bombarded not just with emails, but social media messages of all varieties, blog alerts and more websites than the HAL 9000 computer could have dreamt up.
This flurry of activity has created a legal quagmire – which is good news for media, technology and intellectual property specialists – but a nightmare for ordinary people.
This book is an introduction for those looking into the key regulatory changes surrounding law and 21st-century technologies, this book provides an insight into the way that law functions in line with developments that often span several jurisdictions.
Written by Roger Brownsword,  professor of Law at King’s College London, and Morag Goodwin, senior lecturer at Tilburg University in The Netherlands, the book is billed by its publishers as giving a fresh perspective on the subject.
The authors’ identify key challenges posed by technology to lawmakers, distinguishing between technology as a regulatory target and tool while guiding readers through a constantly evolving and volatile field. Extensive examples are deployed to describe the shape of technical regulation.