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Human Law and Computer Law: Comparative Perspectives

  • Offers a new direction in interdisciplinary legal studies law and code and that of law and literature
  • The first volume to bring together theoretical reflection on new technologies and contemporary literary-legal theory
  • Confronts two interdisciplinary fields within legal theory: that of law and code and that of law and literature ?

Part of the book series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice (IUSGENT, volume 25)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Prefatory Remarks on Human Law and Computer Law

    • Mireille Hildebrandt
    Pages 1-9
  3. Law and Code

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
    2. Prefatory Remarks on Part I: Law and Code

      • Mireille Hildebrandt
      Pages 13-22
    3. From Galatea 2.2 to Watson – And Back?

      • Mireille Hildebrandt
      Pages 23-45
    4. Abort, Retry, Fail: Scoping Techno-Regulation and Other Techno-Effects

      • Bibi van den Berg, Ronald E. Leenes
      Pages 67-87
    5. A Bump in the Road. Ruling Out Law from Technology

      • Katja de Vries, Niels van Dijk
      Pages 89-121
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 195-202

About this book

The focus of this book is on the epistemological and hermeneutic implications of data science and artificial intelligence for democracy and the Rule of Law. How do the normative effects of automated decision systems or the interventions of robotic fellow ‘beings’ compare to the legal effect of written and unwritten law? To investigate these questions the book brings together two disciplinary perspectives rarely combined within the framework of one volume. One starts from the perspective of ‘code and law’ and the other develops from the domain of ‘law and literature’. Integrating original analyses of relevant novels or films, the authors discuss how computational technologies challenge traditional forms of legal thought and affect the regulation of human behavior. Thus, pertinent questions are raised about the theoretical assumptions underlying both scientific and legal practice. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Computing and, Information Sciences (iCIS), Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands

    Mireille Hildebrandt

  • , Department of Jurisprudentie, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

    Jeanne Gaakeer

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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