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.
