The Emergence of Biolaw

The European Experience and the Evolutionary Approach
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-031-02361-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 313 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 505 g

Reihe: Springer Textbooks in Law

This book introduces “biolaw” as an integrated and distinct field in contemporary legal studies. Corresponding to the legal dimension of bioethics, the term “biolaw” is already in use in academic and research activities to denote legal issues emerging mostly from advanced technological applications. This book is a genuine attempt to rationalize the field of biolaw after almost four decades of continuous production of relevant legislation and judgments worldwide. This experience is a robust basis for defending a) a separate legal object, covering the total of legal norms that govern the management of life as a natural phenomenon in all its possible forms, and b) an “evolutionary” approach that opens the discussion on a future conciliation of legal regulation with the Theory of Evolution on the ground of biolaw.

Zielgruppe

Upper undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vidalis, Takis

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinrecht, Gesundheitsrecht
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Bioethik, Tierethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Europarecht
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Bioethik, Tierethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Medizin- und Gesundheitsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A General Introduction.- Part I: Persons.- Introduction - The Concept of Biological Autonomy.- Pathology.- Research.- Death.- Data.- Reproduction.- Enhancement.- Self-ownership.- Part II: From Biodiversity To Intelligent Machines.- Introduction: Biodiversity as a Legal Value.- The Conservation of Species.- The Creation of Species.- Life as commodity.- Concluding Remarks.- Future Challenges for Biolaw.- “Animal rights”.- Biolaw beyond Biology: Artificial Intelligence and Smart Robots.

Über Autor(innen)

Takis Vidalis (1963) received his PhD from the Law School at the University of Athens. In 2001, he was elected a senior researcher and legal advisor to the Hellenic National Bioethics Commission.

Author of 5 books and numerous papers on biolaw, bioethics, medical ethics and law, human rights, philosophy of law, AI ethics and law, and environmental law, he presented original research in more than 100 international and national conferences and workshops.

Takis is the founder of the BioMedLex service (www.biomedlex.gr), specializing in the law of biomedical research and red biotechnology.

Currently, he teaches law and ethics in advanced technologies at the International Hellenic University, the Law School at the University of Athens, the Medical School at the University of Thrace, and the Open University of Cyprus. 

President of the Research Ethics Committee of the leading research Institute in Greece “Democritus,” Takis is now a member of the European Groupon Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE).