"This book examines how science fiction informs the legal imagination of technological futures. Science fiction, the contributors to this book argue, is a storehouse of images, tropes, concepts, and memes that inform the legal imagination of the future, and in doing so generate impetus for change. Specifically, the contributors examine how science fictions imagine human life in space, in the digital, and as formed and negotiated by corporations. They then connect this imaginary to how law should be understood in the present and changed for the future. Across the chapters, there is an urgent sense of the need for law - as it is has been, and as it might become - to order and safeguard the future for a multiplicity of vulnerable entities. This book will appeal to scholars and students with interests in law and technology, legal theory, cultural legal studies and law and the humanities"--
This book examines how science fiction informs the legal imagination of technological futures.
Science fiction, the contributors to this book argue, is a storehouse of images, tropes, concepts, and memes that inform the legal imagination of the future, and in doing so generate impetus for change. Specifically, the contributors examine how science fictions imagine human life in space, in the digital, and as formed and negotiated by corporations. They then connect this imaginary to how law should be understood in the present and changed for the future. Across the chapters, there is an urgent sense of the need for law – as it is has been, and as it might become – to order and safeguard the future for a multiplicity of vulnerable entities.
This book will appeal to scholars and students with interests in law and technology, legal theory, cultural legal studies and law and the humanities.
This book examines how science fiction informs the legal imagination of technological futures.
1. The legal imaginary and science fiction Alex Green, Mitchell Travis
and Kieran Tranter Part I: Law of Space(s)
2. Towards an impossible polis:
Legal imagination and state continuity Alex Green
3. Playing Loki?
International law, decision-making and inter-temporality through the Marvel
multiverse Kritika Sharma
4. Life on the front line: The lives of child
soldiers in Neon Genesis Evangelion Emily Muir
5. Science fiction and
interstellar rights and institutions Erika Techera, Renae Barker and Meredith
Blake
6. International law in outer space: Protecting against evil
corporate actors Stacey Henderson and Melissa de Zwart
7. Society is just
people, and the law is just their club rules: What utopian science fiction
can teach us about legal vulnerability and exploitation in off-world human
settlements Evie Kendal Part II: Dealing with the Digital
8. Artificial
intelligences and legal persons as rule of law subjects in the lifecycle of
software objects Paul Burgess and Daniel Chia Matallana
9. AI Capone, or the
criminal masterminds of the future: The imagined possibilities of malevolent
artificial intelligence with an emphasis on money laundering Georgios
Pavlidis
10. Analysing the portrayal of AI and the law-making process in
science fiction: A comparative study of Isaac Asimovs Three Laws of Robotics
and Philip K Dicks Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Yeliz Figen Döker
and Habibe Deniz Seval
11. Science fiction, science and fiction of and for
algorithmic agents in law AM Waltermann
12. Buying and selling the Metaverse:
Science fiction speculation, modern technologies and digital data economies
Katie Szilagyi and Christina Fawcett Part III: We are Borg: Imagining the
Corporate Form
13. Political theology, 1001 cars long: Emblems of corporate
sovereignty in Netflixs Snowpiercer Timothy D Peters and Thomas Giddens
14.
The spatio-legality of corporate sovereignty in AppleTV+s Severance Dhiraj
Nainani
15. Merging AI technology with the corporate form: Purpose,
personhood and data in Autofac Jordan Aleksander Belor
Alex Green is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of York, UK.
Mitchell Travis is Director of the Centre for Law and Social Justice at the University of Leeds, UK.
Kieran Tranter is Chair of Law, Technology and Future at the School of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
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