Calo, Ryan; Froomkin, Michael A.; Kerr, Ian --- "Robot Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016) [2016] ELECD 224

Editor(s): Calo, Ryan; Froomkin, Michael A.; Kerr, Ian

Title: Robot Law

Topics: Technology and ICT; Internet and Technology Law; Law and Society; Legal Philosophy; Legal Theory; Public International Law; Terrorism and Security Law; Public Policy; Terrorism and Security

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Date of Publication: 29 January 2016

Number of pages: c 424

ISBN (hard cover): 9781783476725

EISBN: 9781783476732

Abstract/Description:

Like the Internet before it, robotics is a socially and economically transformative technology. Robot Law explores how the increasing sophistication of robots and their widespread deployment into hospitals, public spaces, and battlefields requires rethinking of a wide variety of philosophical and public policy issues, including how this technology interacts with existing legal regimes, and thus may inspire changes in policy and in law.

This volume collects the efforts of a diverse group of scholars who each, in their own way, has worked to overcome barriers in order to facilitate necessary and timely discussions of a technology in its infancy. Identifying controversial legal, ethical, and philosophical problems, the authors reveal how issues surrounding robotics and regulation are more complicated than engineers could have anticipated, and just how much definitional and applied work remains to be done.

This groundbreaking examination of a brand-new reality will be of interest and of use to a variety of groups as the authors include engineers, ethicists, lawyers, roboticists, philosophers, and serving military.