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Book SynopsisWhat does computable law mean for the autonomy, authority, and legitimacy of the legal system? Are we witnessing a shift from Rule of Law to a new Rule of Technology? Should we even build these things in the first place? This unique volume collects original papers by a group of leading international scholars to address some of the fascinating questions raised by the encroachment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into more aspects of legal process, administration, and culture. Weighing near-term benefits against the longer-term, and potentially path-dependent, implications of replacing human legal authority with computational systems, this volume pushes back against the more uncritical accounts of AI in law and the eagerness of scholars, governments, and LegalTech developers, to overlook the more fundamental - and perhaps ‘bigger picture’ - ramifications of computable law. With contributions by Simon Deakin, Christopher Markou, Mireille Hildebrandt, Roger Brownsword, Sylvie Delacroix, Lyria Bennet Moses, Ryan Abbott, Jennifer Cobbe, Lily Hands, John Morison, Alex Sarch, and Dilan Thampapillai, as well as a foreword from Frank Pasquale.Trade ReviewIf you have any interest in artificial intelligence (AI), especially if it’s coupled with a desire to learn more about how developments in AI are related to law and legal technology, then this collection of papers has been compiled just for you … As AI continues to seep into many areas of legal practice, this is an important collection of critical papers relevant not just for law libraries but for any library collection hoping to inform readers about ongoing developments in AI and society. -- F Tim Knight, Osgoode Hall Law School Library * Canadian Law Library Review *Table of Contents1. From Rule of Law to Legal Singularity Simon Deakin, University of Cambridge, UK and Christopher Markou, University of Cambridge, UK 2. Ex Machina Lex: Exploring the Limits of Legal Computability Christopher Markou, University of Cambridge, UK and Simon Deakin, University of Cambridge, UK 3. Code-driven Law: Freezing the Future and Scaling the Past Mireille Hildebrandt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium 4. Towards a Democratic Singularity? Algorithmic Governmentality, the Eradication of Politics ? And the Possibility of Resistance John Morison, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK 5. Legal Singularity and the Reflexivity of Law Jennifer Cobbe, University of Cambridge, UK 6. Artificial Intelligence and Legal Singularity: The Thin End of the Wedge, the Thick End of the Wedge, and the Rule of Law Roger Brownsword, King’s College London, UK 7. Automated Systems and the Need for Change Sylvie Delacroix, University of Birmingham, UK 8. Punishing Artificial Intelligence: Legal Fiction or Science Fiction Ryan Abbott, University of Surrey, UK and Alex Sarch, University of Surrey, UK 9. Not a Single Singularity Lyria Bennett Moses, UNSW Sydney, Australia 10. The Law of Contested Concepts? Reflections on Copyright Law and the Legal and Technological Singularities Dilan Thampapillai, ANU College of Law, Australia 11. Capacitas Ex Machina: Are Computerised Assessments of Mental Capacity a ‘Red Line’ or Benchmark for AI? Christopher Markou, University of Cambridge, UK and Lily Hands, University of Cambridge, UK

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Book SynopsisJan Czarnocki is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow and Doctoral Researcher at the KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law, Belgium. Przemyslaw Palka is Assistant Professor at the Jagiellonian University Faculty of Law, Poland.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to focus on media and conflict - primarily international conflict - from multidisciplinary, cross-national and cross-cultural perspectives. Twenty-two contributors from around the globe present original and thought provoking research on media and conflict in the United States, Central America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Russia, and Asia. Media and Conflict includes works both on the traditional print and electronic media and on new media including the Internet. It explores the role media play in different phases of conflict determined by goal and structure including conflict management, conflict resolution, and conflict transformation. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.Trade ReviewREVIEWS An important and diverse collection.... This book brings the study of media and conflict to a new level of sophistication. -- Robert M. Entman, Professor and Head, Department of Communication, North Carolina State University. A wonderful, multi-discipline attempt to understand the complicated intersection of communications and political strife. -- Susan Herbst, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Northwestern UniversityTable of ContentsAbout the Authors; World Perspectives on Media and Conflict, Eytan Gilboa; Part I: Framing; Chapter 1: Media and the New Post-Cold War Movements, Andrew Rojecki; Chapter 2: The Battle in Seattle: How Nongovernmental Organizations Used Websites in Their Challenge to the WTO, Melissa A. Wall; Chapter 3: Spiral of Violence? Conflict and Conflict Resolution in International News, Christopher Beaudoin and Esther Thorson; Chapter 4: Relational Ripeness in the Oslo I and Oslo II Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations, William A. Donohue and Gregory D. Hoobler; Chapter 5: Framing International Conflicts in Asia: A Comparative Analysis of News Coverage of Tokdo, Young Chul Yoon and Gwangho E.; Chapter 6: Framing Environmental Conflicts: The Edwards Aquifer Dispute, Linda L. Putnam; Part II: Media and Policy; Chapter 7: Sources, the Media and the Reporting of Conflict ,Howard Tumber; Chapter 8: An Exploratory Model of Media-Government Relations in International Crises: U.S. Involvement in Bosnia 1992–1995, Yaeli Bloch and Sam Lehman-Wilzig; Chapter 9: Global Television and Conflict Resolution: Defining the Limits of the CNN Effect, Piers Robinson; Chapter 10: Media Diplomacy in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Eytan Gilboa; Chapter 11: The Russian Media Role in the Conflicts in Afghanistan and Chechnya: A Case Study of Media Coverage by Izvestia Olga V. Malinkina and Douglas M. McLeod; Chapter 12: Effects of Ambiguous Policies on Media Coverage of Foreign Conflicts: The Cases of Eritrea and Southern Sudan, Meseret Chekol Reta; Part III: Media and the Public; Chapter 13: The South African Press: No Strangers to Conflict, Arnold S de Beer;Chapter 14: Cultural Conflict in the Middle East: The Media as Peacemakers, Dov Shinar; Chapter 15: The Media and Reconciliation in Central America, Sonia Gutiérrez-Villalobos; Chapter 16: The Crisis in Kosovo: Photographic News of the Conflict and Public Opinion, Kimberly L. Bissell; Chapter 17: Internet Public Relations: A Tool for Crisis Management, Shannon B. Campbell; Index.

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Book SynopsisIn Broadcasters’ Rights in the Digital Era, Sakthivel provides a cogent understanding into a hitherto unchartered territory on the applicability of copyright law on the live streaming of 'entertainment content'- an emerging medium of communication. The book examines in exhaustive breadth the scope of broadcasters' neighbouring rights under the copyright regime in the light of technological advancements vis-à-vis authors' right and explores the experiences of EU & USA and then suggests suitable changes to the Indian Copyright regime. Sakthivel employs technological analysis and existence of differential market for different mediums to substantiate the relationship of live streaming and the copyright regime.

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Book SynopsisIn Artificial Intelligence: Robot Law, Policy and Ethics, Dr. Nathalie Rébé discusses the legal and contemporary issues in relation to creating conscious robots. She argues that AI’s physical and decision-making capacities to act on its own means having to grant it a juridical personality. The advancement in new technologies forces us to reconsider the role Artificial Intelligence (AI) will have in our society. Sectors such as education, transportation, jobs, sex, business, the military, medical and security will be particularly affected by the development of AI. This work provides an analysis of cases and existing regulatory tools, which could be used by lawyers in future trials. Dr. Rébé also offers a new comprehensive framework to regulate Strong AI so that ‘it’ can safely live among humans. This book is a response to two questions: first, should we ban or prohibit AI; and, secondly, if not, what should be the salient features of a legal or regulatory framework for AI?Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction – AI (R)evolution: On the Path to Robot Independence PART 1 The Light and Dark Side of Advanced Technologies  Introduction to Part 1 1 Heading Towards Dire Economic Consequences? 2 A Revolution for Worldwide Education 3 Privacy and Law Enforcement in an Artificial World 4 Future Military Scenarios 5 Trans-humanism and Medical Progress 6 Robot Relationships: Love, Sex and Business PART 2 AI Rights, Crimes and Punishments  Introduction to Part 2 7 The Juridical Personality of Artificial Intelligence 8 Inherent Rights of Strong AI 9 Illegal Usage of AI Technology 10 Jurisdictional Competencies and Fair Punishment for Wrongful Conduct 11 Starter’s Guide for Future Trials 12 Thinking Ahead: Building a New AI Convention Conclusion: Will Mankind Be Overwhelmed and Become the Slave of Its Own Innovation? Annexes Annex 1 Related Cases Annex 2 Related Conventions Annex 3 New Proposed AI Legislation Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this book academic and police officer Erik van de Sandt researches the security practices of cyber criminals. While their protective practices are not necessarily deemed criminal by law, the countermeasures of cyber criminals frequently deviate from prescribed bona fide cyber security standards. This book is the first to present a full picture on these deviant security practices, based on unique access to confidential police sources related to some of the world's most serious and organized cyber criminals. The findings of this socio-technical-legal research prove that deviant security is an academic field of study on its own, and will help a non-technical audience to understand cyber security and the challenges of investigating cyber crime.Table of ContentsForeword List of Figures and Tables Nomenclature 1 Introduction  1.1 Research Direction & Objectives  1.2 Who Should Read This Book & Why?  1.3 Methodological Approach  1.4 Novel Contributions  1.5 Outline of the Book PART 1 Current Perspectives on Security 2 ‘Good Guy’ Perspectives on Security  2.1 Security as an Ongoing Process  2.2 Current Perspective on Technical Computer Security  2.3 Current Perspectives on Cyber Security & Cyber Crimes   2.3.1 Why Cyber Crime is (not) Cyber Security   2.3.2 Border-Centric View on Cyber Security & Cyber Crimes   2.3.3 Borderless View on Cyber Security & Cyber Crimes  2.4 Interim Conclusion and Discussion 3 Touching upon Security Controls of Cyber Criminals  3.1 Computer Science & Engineering Literature   3.1.1 Anti-Forensics   3.1.2 Botnet Protection   3.1.3 Authorship Analysis   3.1.4 Attacker Economics   3.1.5 Interim Conclusion & Discussion  3.2 Social Science Literature  3.3 Legal Studies  3.4 Interim Conclusion and Discussion PART 2 Researching Cyber Crime and Deviant Security 4 A Multidisciplinary Approach for Deviant Security  4.1 Descriptive: Grounded Theory for Deviant Security Practices   4.1.1 Cyber Criminal and Cyber Security Participants   4.1.2 Secondary Data Sources   4.1.3 Data Collection, Analysis and Writing  4.2 Explanatory: Information Age & Microeconomic Theory   4.2.1 Deviant Security in the Information Age   4.2.2 The Microeconomics of Deviant Security  4.3 Limitations  4.4 Ethical Issues PART 3 A Theory on Deviant Security 5 What? – Basic Qualities of Deviant Security  5.1 Definition: What Makes Security Deviant?  5.2 Meaning: Subjective Condition  5.3 Provision: Club, Common, Private and Public Good  5.4 Function: An Asset To Protect Assets  5.5 Form: Intangible and Tangible Products & Services  5.6 Interim Conclusion and Discussion 6 Who? – Interactive Qualities of Deviant Security  6.1 Autarkic & Autonomous Referent Objects  6.2 DevSec Providers & Services  6.3 Threat Agents & Attacks  6.4 Information Asymmetries in Intertwined Networks  6.5 Deception as Deviant Security Control  6.6 Trust and Distrust as Deviant Security Controls  6.7 Interim Conclusion and Discussion 7 When & Where? – Temporal-Spatial Qualities of Deviant Security  7.1 Countermeasures Against Data Volatility & Retention  7.2 Intercultural Communication as a Countermeasure  7.3 Distribution as a Countermeasure  7.4 Physical Deviant Security  7.5 Interim Conclusion and Discussion 8 Investigative Responses Against Deviant Security  8.1 Security-Driven Investigations That Provide Human Security  8.2 Investigations as a Public Service With Multiple Outcomes  8.3 Technical Harmonization for a Global Investigation System  8.4 Reactive & Proactive Investigations on Commission & Protection  8.5 Data Scientific Investigations that Serve the Public Interest  8.6 Interim Conclusion & Discussion PART 4 Conclusions 9 The Outlook of Deviant Security  9.1 Research Objectives Reiterated  9.2 A Filled-In Deviant Security Process Cycle  9.3 Summary of Findings  9.4 Moving Forward From Findings  9.5 Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis is an issue of our quarterly journal Hume Papers on Public Policy - the journal of the David Hume Institute.Trade ReviewProvides some useful insights into computers and the law over a broad area. -- E Susan Singleton Provides some useful insights into computers and the law over a broad area.Table of ContentsRacing Forms and the Exhibition(ist) (Mis)Match: Second Thoughts on the Anxiety of Production

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Book SynopsisHow will law, regulation and ethics govern a future of fast-changing technologies? Bringing together cutting-edge authors from academia, legal practice and the technology industry, Future Law explores and leverages the power of human imagination in understanding, critiquing and improving the legal responses to technological change.

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Book SynopsisThis book considers jurisdictional issues on violations of personality rights through the Internet under the so-called ‘Brussels-Lugano Regime’ and centres on the special rule of jurisdiction in matters relating to tort, delict, or quasi-delict. It notes the governing objectives and underlying principles of this special rule; analyses its interpretation through the judgments of the ECJ, especially Bier, Shevill, and eDate and Martinez; and explores views expressed in legal theory and national judicial practice regarding its application for localising online violations of personality rights. The book aims to examine how the eDate and Martinez approaches advance administrability, predictability, and litigational justice and to assess whether they are suitable jurisdictional bases in Europe, where common legal norms, interests, and values increasingly integrate and connect persons. It concludes that they are not and recommends their possible reform.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides original, diverse, and timely insights into the nature, scope, and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially machine learning and natural language processing, in relation to contracting practices and contract law. The chapters feature unique, critical, and in-depth analysis of a range of topical issues, including how the use of AI in contracting affects key principles of contract law (from formation to remedies), the implications for autonomy, consent, and information asymmetries in contracting, and how AI is shaping contracting practices and the laws relating to specific types of contracts and sectors. The contributors represent an interdisciplinary team of lawyers, computer scientists, economists, political scientists, and linguists from academia, legal practice, policy, and the technology sector. The chapters not only engage with salient theories from different disciplines, but also examine current and potential real-world applications and implications of AI in contracting and explore feasible legal, policy, and technological responses to address the challenges presented by AI in this field. The book covers major common and civil law jurisdictions, including the EU, Italy, Germany, UK, US, and China. It should be read by anyone interested in the complex and fast-evolving relationship between AI, contract law, and related areas of law such as business, commercial, consumer, competition, and data protection laws.Table of ContentsPART I FORMATION OF CONTRACT, AUTONOMY AND CONSENT 1. Mapping Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives from Computer Science Luigi Portinale (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy) 2. Artificial Intelligence, Contracting and Contract Law: An Introduction Martin Ebers (University of Tartu, Estonia) 3. When AI Meets Smart Contracts: The Regulation of Hyper-Autonomous Contracting Systems? Mimi Zou (University of Reading, UK) 4. A Philosophy of Contract Law for Artificial Intelligence: Shared Intentionality John Linarelli (Touro College, USA) 5. From Document to Data: Revolution of Contract Through Legal Technologies Silvia Martinelli (University of Turin, Italy) and Carlo Rossi Chauvenet (CRCLEX, Italy) PART II DRAFTING, AI TOOLS FOR CONTRACTING AND CONTRACT ANALYSIS, MANAGEMENT 6. Legal Tech Solutions for the Management of the Contract Lifecycle Giulio Messori (Sweet Legal Tech, Italy) 7. Building a Chatbot: Challenges under Copyright and Data Protection Law Aleksei Kelli (University of Tartu, Estonia), Arvi Tavast (Institute of the Estonian Language, Estonia) and Krister Lindén (University of Helsinki, Finland) 8. Legal Tech Solutions as Digital Services under the Digital Content Directive and E-Commerce Directive Karin Sein (University of Tartu, Estonia) 9. Contracting in Code Megan Ma (Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, USA) 10. Summarising Multilingual Documents: The Unexpressed Potential of Deep Natural Language Processing Luca Cagliero (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) PART III (NON-)PERFORMANCE, REMEDIES AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION 11. Remedies for Artificial Intelligence Cristina Poncibò (University of Turin, Italy) 12. Artificial Intelligence and Platform Services: EU Consumer (Contract) Law and New Regulatory Developments Monika Namyslowska (University of Lodz, Poland) and Agnieszka Jablonowska (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) 13. Artificial Intelligence and Anticompetitive Collusion: From the ‘Meeting of Minds’ towards the ‘Meeting of Algorithms’? Giuseppe Colangelo (University of Basilicata, Italy) 14. Artificial Intelligence and Contracts: Reflection about Dispute Resolution Paola Aurucci (University of Turin, Italy) and Piercarlo Rossi (University of Turin, Italy)

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Book SynopsisReiner Schulze is Professor Emeritus of German and European Civil Law at the University of Münster, Germany.Dirk Staudenmayer is Honorary Professor at the University of Münster, Germany.

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