Four key regulatory challenges

Roger Brownsword; Morag Goodwin

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139047609.005

3 - Four key regulatory challenges

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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012

Roger Brownsword and

Morag Goodwin

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Roger Brownsword: Affiliation:
King's College London
Morag Goodwin: Affiliation:
Universiteit van Tilburg, The Netherlands

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Introduction

If law and technology are to work together to improve the basic conditions of human social existence – for example, to improve the conditions of public health and security, to ensure an adequate, safe and stable supply of food and water, to safeguard the physical environment, and so on – this presupposes a regulatory environment that supports the development, application and exploitation of technologies that will contribute to such an overarching purpose, an environment properly geared for risk management and benefit sharing.

Relative to such a project, regulators are liable to be called to account if:

they fail to take sensible precautionary measures relative to the risks presented by emerging technologies;
the purposes or objectives that they are pursuing (or, the manner and means by which they pursue those objectives) are judged to be illegitimate;
their interventions are ineffective and not fully fit for purpose; or
they have failed to make an initial targeted and sustainable regulatory connection; or, where regulation has become disconnected, they have failed to make an appropriate reconnection.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139047609.005 [Opens in a new window]

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