Routledge Research in the Law of Emerging Technologies
Civil Liability in Digital Contexts: Transformation of Legal Proof in the EU
1st Edition
By Dimo Gospodinov
October 23, 2026
This book explores how traditional mechanisms of legal proof are being transformed to address the unique challenges of civil liability in the European Union's digital landscape. Drawing on a comparative analysis of EU law, Member States' practices, and international approaches, this book provides a...
Regulation of Artificial General Intelligence: A New Legal Framework
1st Edition
By Paulius Astromskis
August 26, 2026
This book proposes a comprehensive legal framework for regulating Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), integrating insights from law, economics, and process management. Adopting a structured, future-focused, and risk-based approach to address the unique challenges of AGI regulation, this book ...
AI and Legal Education: Ethical and Sustainable Approaches
1st Edition
By Anil Balan
July 20, 2026
This book provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis of the sustainable and ethical integration of artificial intelligence (AI) within legal education, offering practical strategies for balancing innovation with ethical responsibility. Discussing the intersection of legal studies, ...
Social Media, Criminal Law and Legality
1st Edition
By Laura Higson-Bliss
July 20, 2026
Utilising Lon Fuller’s conception of legality, this book argues that current legal provisions often used to control online abuse aided by social media do not conform to the basic principles of legality in the criminal law, in turn, threatening freedom of expression. How we regulate inappropriate ...
Web3 Governance: Law and Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Joseph Lee, Jyh-An Lee
June 22, 2026
Focusing on four key aspects of Web3, the book explores metaverses, data governance, public and private law interfaces, and access to justice, presenting new research on the impact of data analytics on transactions within law, on regulatory activities, and on the practice of law. Artificial ...
Privacy, Data Protection and Data-driven Technologies
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Ebers, Karin Sein
May 22, 2026
This book brings together contributions from leading scholars in law and technology, analysing the privacy issues raised by new data-driven technologies. Highlighting the challenges that technology poses to existing European Union (EU) data protection laws, the book assesses whether current legal ...
Emerging Technology and the Law: Bridging the Gap Between Innovation and Regulation
1st Edition
Edited
By Purvi Pokhariyal, Archana Patel, Navtika Singh Nautiyal, Ambrish Kumar Mishra
April 21, 2026
This book explores the multifaceted implications of technological innovation on legal systems, addressing how emerging technologies enhance, challenge, and necessitate reform in legal practice and governance, with a focus on artificial intelligence, big data, and blockchain. Technological ...
AI and Tort Liability: Rethinking, Recalibrating, and Reallocating Risk and Responsibility
1st Edition
By Juan Diaz-Granados
March 24, 2026
This book provides a novel framework for adapting tort law to the challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) in all of its forms—from machine learning to generative models to autonomous and agentic systems. Centered on a liability matrix, this book maps AI systems into four zones according to ...
The Global Governance of AI: The Role of the United Nations
1st Edition
By Kinfe Yilma
December 31, 2025
This book explores the global governance of artificial intelligence (AI) against the background of unprecedented technological advances in recent years. It offers the first comprehensive examination of the role of the United Nations in global AI governance. Drawing upon recent governance ...
Legal, Regulatory and Ethical Non-binary Choices of the AI Act
1st Edition
By Tomasz Braun, Dominika Harasimiuk
December 03, 2025
This book investigates the complex ethical dilemmas underpinning AI regulation, analysing the EU Artificial Intelligence Act in the context of the fundamental values and ambitious expectations that have accompanied it initially. This book posits a pioneering regulatory framework to ensure the ...
The Regulation of Digital Technologies in the EU: Act-ification, GDPR Mimesis and EU Law Brutality at Play
1st Edition
By Vagelis Papakonstantinou, Paul De Hert
November 28, 2025
EU regulatory initiatives concerning technology-related topics have spiked over the past few years. On the basis of its Priorities Programme, which is focused on making Europe ‘Fit for the Digital Age’, the European Commission has been busily releasing new texts aimed at regulating a number of ...
The European Union and Digital Law: Normative Power in a Globalized Technological Landscape
1st Edition
By Yuval Reinfeld, Aviv Gaon
October 28, 2025
This book introduces the concept of Technical Normative Power (TNP) to explain how the European Union (EU) transforms internal legal frameworks into external influence. Over the past two decades, the EU has emerged as a global regulatory force in the digital age. As technologies such as big data, ...