This book explores how technology today shapes every aspect of human life, from communication and commerce to governance and justice. It invites readers to reimagine how legal and policy frameworks can be reshaped to safeguard rights, foster innovation, and ensure justice in a rapidly evolving digital world.
This book explores how technology today shapes every aspect of human life, from communication and commerce to governance and justice. Its rapid growth presents not only technical challenges but also profound legal and ethical dilemmas, such as:
- How do we safeguard privacy in a world of constant data collection?
- What kind of legal protection should exist for digital rights in the age of artificial intelligence?
- And how can legal frameworks keep pace with innovations that move faster than regulations?
The volume draws connections between law, technology, and education, offering perspectives that are both globally relevant and contextually grounded. It invites readers to reimagine how legal and policy frameworks can be reshaped to safeguard rights, foster innovation, and ensure justice in a rapidly evolving digital world.
Covering broad subject areas such as digital privacy, data protection, artificial intelligence, legal innovation, and technology-driven education, this book is designed for scholars, policymakers, legal practitioners, educators, and anyone interested in the intersection of law, technology, and society.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of International Review of Law, Computers & Technology.
Introduction: global dialogues on law and technology
1. Transparency as
the defining feature for developing risk assessment AI technology for border
control
2. ChatGPT for good? Taking beneficence seriously in the regulation
of generative artificial intelligence
3. Patents in metaverse: an analysis of
scope and challenges
4. Contours of data protection in India: the consent
dilemma
5. Standardised cookie banner: a solution to the cookie consent
problem
6. When its cute but also dark: critical analysis of FarmVille 3s
game design in the digital economy
7. Getting global cooperation right on
internet governance: strategic roadmaps for the future
8. Minimising
unnecessary restrictions on cross-border data flows? Indonesias position and
challenges post personal data protection act enactment
Sweta Lakhani is Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean (LLM Blended Programme) at Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India. Her interdisciplinary research lies at the intersection of law, technology, and behavioural science, with a particular focus on how emerging technologies shape legal norms, regulatory frameworks, and human decision-making.
Subhajit Basu is Professor of Law and Technology at the University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, and Editor-in-Chief of the International Review of Law, Computers & Technology. His research focuses on AI, big data, autonomous systems, online harms, privacy, and access to justice, with particular attention to the Global South.
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