Law and Technology

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5265-3100-1
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing plc

Buch, Englisch, 824 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 1170 g

Reihe: Bloomsbury Professional

By providing an accessible and holistic approach to law and technology issues, this book will guide practitioners through the technological challenges facing them both in their working practices and in the matters they handle. Law and Technology will help on both a practical and theoretical level, and will give practitioners line of sight of the technology challenges ahead. Students, and those undertaking further professional training, will find all the major issues are examined.

Law and Technology lays the groundwork for a discipline of Law and Technology and is an authoritative text for practitioners and a range of undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional courses in the discipline, as well as a reference on the impact of technology on other legal disciplines, for example company law, criminal law and the law of torts. Uniquely, the book is rooted in Irish law; appropriately so given Ireland's role in the EU with a major Big Tech presence, and the fact that an Irish university is the home to the first-ever Law and Technology modules at the LLB level as core and compulsory subjects.

Legislation examined in this book includes:

- The EU AI Act

- Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022

- Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Act 2022

- Consumer Rights Act 2022

- Data Protection Act 2018, and General Data Protection Regulation
- e-Privacy Regulations

- Security of Network and Information Systems Directive
- Digital Markets Act
- Cybercrime Treaty

There has been huge growth in litigation in this area, much of it driven by the EU's digital strategy. The cases analysed cover such issues as data transfer from the EU to US for commercial purposes, ransomware attack, data retention, data protection, surveillance, right to privacy, data misuse, artificial intelligence, Internet jurisdiction, online hate and online harassment and stalking.

This book is on the Intellectual Property and IT Law service on Bloomsbury Professional Online.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cowan, David

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Disruption and Continuity
1. Law's Digital Flux
2. Law's Circumnavigation of Cyberspace
3. European Union Law: Technology or Technocracy?
4. The EU and AI Regulation
5. The Augmented Lawyer: Law, Communication and Technology

Part II: The Law of Technology
6. Artificial Intelligence
7. Intellectual Property

8. Transfer of Technology
9. Cybersecurity
10. Data Protection
11. The Online Experience: Social Media and Surveillance
12. Blockchain
13. Autonomous Systems, Robots and the Future

Part III: Technology of Law
14. Legal Technology Strategy and Case Management

15. Compliance, RegTech, SupTech and Whistleblowing
16. Artificial Intelligence Tools
17. Legal Prompting and AI Tools

18. RoboLawyers and JudgeBots
19. Predictive Analytics and E-Discovery
20. Smart Contracts and Smart-er Contracting
21. Database Design and Cloud Solutions
22. Technology in Alternative Dispute Resolution

23. Online Courts

Part IV: Impact of Technology on Law
24. Public Law
25. Human Rights

26. Family Law

27. Criminal Law
28. Law of Evidence
29. Contract Law
30. Equity and the Law of Trusts
31. Property Law
32. Tort Law
33. Media and Entertainment Law

Part V: Conclusion
34. The Augmented Lawyer and Communication

Über Autor(innen)

Cowan, David
Dr David Cowan is an international law academic and author. He is Assistant Professor in the School of Law and Criminology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth, Adjunct Professor in the Faculté de Droit - Catholic University of Lyon, and Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Advance Legal Studies, University of London. He teaches and writes on law and technology, cyberlaw, legal ethics, and legal communication. Dr Cowan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA). He is author of Effective Communication for Lawyers: A Practical Guide, which was shortlisted for Law Book of the Year at the Irish Law Awards 2022.

Dr Cowan is a pioneer in legal education, technology, and communication. He launched Law and Technology courses on the Bachelor of Laws (LLB) programme at Maynooth, the first of its kind in legal education globally. He has also written Strategic Internal Communication: How to Build Employee Engagement and Performance and Effective Communication for Lawyers: A Practical Guide. As a writer and editor, Dr Cowan worked for legal, technology and financial media, including the Financial Times, Euromoney, Reed International and numerous technology trade journals. He has also worked on research and writing projects for the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Dr Cowan is a graduate of the University of Oxford, The Honorable Society of King's Inns, and the University of St Andrews, where he earned his PhD in International Relations. He is a former Visiting Scholar at Boston College, USA. His other books include Frank H Knight: Prophet of Freedom and The Coming Economic Implosion of Saudi Arabia.

Dr David Cowan is an international law academic and author. He is Assistant Professor in the School of Law and Criminology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth, Adjunct Professor in the Faculté de Droit - Catholic University of Lyon, and Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Advance Legal Studies, University of London. He teaches and writes on law and technology, cyberlaw, legal ethics, and legal communication. Dr Cowan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.