The Nanotechnology Challenge
Creating Legal Institutions for Uncertain Risks
Published on 26. June 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
438 pages
978-1-107-44004-3 (ISBN)
Description
Nanotechnology is the wave of the future, and has already been incorporated into everything from toothpaste to socks to military equipment. The safety of nanotechnology for human health and the environment is a great unknown, however, and no legal system in the world has yet devised a way to reasonably address the uncertain risks of nanotechnology. To do so will require creating new legal institutions. This volume of essays by leading law scholars and social and physical scientists offers a range of views as to how such institutions should be formed. It is essential reading for anyone who may wonder how we can continue to innovate technologically in a way that both delivers the benefits and sustains human health and the environment.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
6 Halftones, unspecified; 7 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
630 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-44004-3 (9781107440043)
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Person
David A. Dana is Associate Dean for Faculty Research and the Stanford Clinton Sr. and Zylpha Kilbride Clinton Research Professor of Law at Northwestern University. He is the co-founder and co-director of the Northwestern University Institute for Sustainable Practices (NISP) and a Faculty Fellow at the Kellogg School of Business, Northwestern University. Dana is the author of more than thirty articles on environmental law and policy and has been published in numerous journals, including Harvard Environmental Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Ecology Law Journal and University of Pennsylvania Law Review. He is a former litigator for the US Department of Justice and at Wilmer and Hale (formerly Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering).
Content
Part I. Introduction: 1. The nanotechnology challenge David A. Dana; 2. The five myths about nanotechnology in the current public policy debate: a science and engineering perspective Kimberly Gray; Part II. Public Perceptions of Nanotechnology Risks: 3. Public regulation and the regulation of emerging technologies - the role of private politics Daniel Diermeier; 4. How scientific evidence links attitudes to behaviors James N. Druckman and Toby Bolsen; Part III. Meeting the Nanotechnology Challenge by Creating New Legal Institutions: 5. Toward risk-based, adaptive regulatory definitions David A. Dana; 6. The missing market instrument: environmental assurance bonds and nanotechnology regulation Douglas A. Kysar; 7. Conditional liability relief as an incentive for precautionary study David A. Dana; 8. Transnational new governance and the international coordination of nanotechnology oversight Gary E. Marchant, Kenneth W. Abbott, Douglas J. Sylvester and Lyn M. Gulley; 9. Labeling the little things Jonathan H. Adler; 10. Public nuisance: a potential common law response to nanotechnology's uncertain harms Albert C. Lin; 11. Enlarging the regulation of shrinking cosmetics and sunscreens Robin Fretwell Wilson; 12. Accelerating regulatory review John O. McGinnis; 13. Ethical issues in nanotechnology: persons and polity Laurie Zoloth; Part IV. Where We Are Now - The Current Institutions for Nanotechnology Regulation: 14. An overview of the law of nanotechnology Fern O'Brian; 15. Regulatory responses to nanotechnology uncertainties Read D. Porter, Linda Breggin, Robert Falkner, John Pendergrass and Nico Jaspers.