Law in an Era of Smart Technology [Hardcover]

Susan Brenner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 31, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0195333489 | ISBN-13: 978-0195333480

Should law be technologically neutral, or should it evolve as human relationships with technology become more advanced?

In Law in an Era of "Smart" Technology, Susan Brenner analyzes the complex and evolving interactions between law and technology and provides a thorough and detailed account of the law in technology at the beginning of the 21st century. Brenner draws upon recent technological advances, evaluating how developing technologies may alter how humans interact with each other and with their environment. She analyzes the development of technology as shifting from one of "use" to one of "interaction," and argues that this interchange needs us to reconceptualize our approach to legal rules, which were originally designed to prevent the "misuse" of older technologies.

As technologies continue to develop over the next several decades, Brenner argues that the laws directed between human and technological relationships should remain neutral. She explains how older technologies rely on human implementation, but new "smart" technology will be completely automated. This will eventually lead to, as she explains, the ultimate progression in our relationship with technology: the fusion of human physiology and technology. Law in an Era of "Smart" Technology provides a detailed, historically-grounded explanation as to why our traditional relationship with technology is evolving and why a corresponding shift in the law is imminent and necessary.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The pace of technological change means that crimes now unforeseen are looming over the horizon. When they occur, legislators will be playing catch-up. Professor Brenner's discussion of emerging ambient technologies is fascinating, and her book will be a wake-up call to policy makers and legislators in the forthcoming era of increasingly pervasive digital technology. Professor Brenner's book combines rich historical depth with great foresight, and provides an indispensable framework for law in the digital age."--Peter Grabosky, Director of Security21: International Centre for Security and Justice, Australian National University

"Law in an Era of "Smart" Technology is intellectually intricate. I enjoyed it tremendously. The material presented is at the leading edge of an area."--Ralph D. Clifford, Professor of Law and Associate Dean, Southern New England School of Law

About the Author

Susan W. Brenner is NCR Distinguished Professor of Law and Technology at the University of Dayton School of Law

Product Details

• Hardcover: 200 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (December 31, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0195333489
• ISBN-13: 978-0195333480
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,048,988 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Susan W. Brenner is NCR Distinguished Professor of Law and Technology at the University of Dayton School of Law in Dayton, Ohio.

Professor Brenner has spoken at numerous events, including two Interpol Conferences on Cybercrimes, the Middle East IT Security Conference, the American Bar Association's National Cybercrime Conference and the Yale Law School Conference on Cybercrime She spoke on cyberthreats and the nation-state at the Department of Homeland Security's Global Cyber Security Conference and participated in a panel discussion of national security threats in cyberspace sponsored by the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security. She has also spoken at a NATO Workshop on Cyberterrorism in Bulgaria and on terrorists' use of the Internet at the American Society of International Law conference. She was a member of the European Union's CTOSE project on digital evidence and served on two Department of Justice digital evidence initiatives. Professor Brenner chaired a Working Group in an American Bar Association project that developed the ITU Toolkit for Cybercrime Legislation for the United Nation's International Telecommunications Union. She is a Senior Principal for Global CyberRisk, LLC.

Professor Brenner is a member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. She has published a number of law review articles dealing with cybercrime, including Fantasy Crime, 11 Vanderbilt Journal of Technology and Entertainment Law 1 (2008), State-Sponsored Crime: The Futility of the Economic Espionage Act, 26 Houston Journal of International Law 1 (2006), Cybercrime Metrics, University of Virginia Journal of Law & Technology (2004) and Toward a Criminal Law for Cyberspace: Distributed Security, Boston University Journal of Science & Technology Law (2004). In 2007, Oxford University Press published her book: Law in an Era of "Smart" Technology and in 2009 Oxford published her most recent book: Cyber Threats: Emerging Fault Lines of the Nation-States.