The Cambridge Handbook of the Governance of Technology

Roger Brownsword holds part-time professorial positions at King's College London and Bournemouth University. He has published many books and articles including, most recently, Technology, Humans, and Discontent with the Law: The Quest for Better Governance (Routledge, 2024), and The Future of Governance: A Radical Introduction to Law (Routledge, 2025). Larry A. DiMatteo is the Huber Hurst Professor of Contact Law, Warrington College of Business & Levin College of Law at the University of Florida. He is the author, or coauthor, and coeditor of more than 160 publications, including eighteen books. Some of his books are Principles of Contract Law and Theory (2024), The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence (2022), Judicial Control over Arbitral Awards (2021), and The Cambridge Handbook of Smart Contracts, Blockchain Technology and Digital Platforms (2020).

'Why do churches sometimes take great risks to defend liberal democracy? Religious institutions are often viewed as conservative actors, but Baldwin shows that this is not always true. Through a brilliant combination of cross-national and within-country evidence, Baldwin convincingly argues that churches with activities at risk of suppression and with independent sources of financing are more likely to resist autocrats. The book makes novel contributions to the study of democratic resilience, non-state provision, and religion in political life.' Melani Cammett, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University

• Part I. Discontent with Law's Governance: 1. Law's imperfect governance Roger Brownsword; 2. Technology's self-governance Iris Eisenberger; 3. On law's governance of technology Ugo Pagallo; 4. Tech law: local and global governance Andrew Murray; Part II. Discontent with Governance by Technological Management: 5. Technology's ability to escape the legal system Colin Gavaghan and Andrew Charlesworth; 6. Problems of technological management: on automated extraction of mental goods Przemysław Pałka; 7. Agency in the face of artificial intelligence William Lucy; Part III. Technology's Disruptive Effects on Law: 8. Governance of lawyering and lawyering governance of AI Larry DiMatteo and Francisco de Elizalde; 9. Adapting consumer to new technologies Christian Twigg-Flesner and Geraint Howells; 10. Detecting disruption: implications for law's classifications Lan Luh Luh and Kelvin FK Low; 11. Contract law and technological disruption: blenders to AI Eliza Mik; 12. Law of private remedies in the governance of AI Sergio García Long; Part IV. Evolution of LawTech: 13. Developing artificially intelligent justice Jiaying Jiang, Sidney Thomas and Seth Frye; 14. Lawtech and dispute settlement in the digital economy Georgios Dimitropoulos; Part V. Governance by Technology: 15. Incomplete interaction of public/private governance in the AI act Hans Micklitz; 16. Technologies in environmental governance: two scenarios Han Somsen.