Future Law

Lilian Edwards is Chair of Law, Innovation and Society at Newcastle University. Her principal research interests are in the law relating to the Internet, the Web and new technologies, with a European and comparative focus. She also has close links with the Oxford Internet Institute. She is Associate Director, and was co-founder, of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Centre for IP and Technology Law (now SCRIPT). She has co-edited four bestselling editions of Law and the Internet (Hart Publishing, 1997, 2000, 2009 and 2018) with Charlotte Waelde and a collection of essays, The New Legal Framework for E-Commerce in Europe (Bloomsbury, 2005). Burkhard Schafer is Professor of Computational Legal Theory at the University of Edinburgh. He is co-founder and co-director of the Joseph Bell Centre for Legal Reasoning and Forensic Statistics. Edina Harbinja is Reader in Law at Aston Law School, Aston University. Her principal areas of research concern legal issues surrounding the Internet and emerging technologies. She has published widely on aspects of internet law and regulation and has been a visiting scholar and invited speaker to universities and conferences internationally. She has pioneered the concept of post-mortem privacy. Her research has been highly impactful and has been cited by legislators, courts and policymakers worldwide. Edina regularly engages with the media, and her key appearances include Nature, TEDx, BBC, ABC, The Guardian, Thomson and Reuters etc.

• Table of cases, Table of statutesIntroduction1. The Future’s Already Here, It’s Just Unevenly EditedLilian Edwards, Burkhard Schafer and Edina HarbinjaPart I. From Privacy and Princesses, to Security and Star Wars2. Privacy and Identity Through the Eyes of Disney PrincessesPaul Bernal3. White Noise from the White Goods? Privacy by Design for Ambient Domestic ComputingLachlan Urquhart4. Citizen-Consumers in a Personalised Galaxy: Emotion Influenced Decision-Making, A True Path to the Dark Side?Damian Clifford5. Big Data Ethics: Darth Vader and the Green Cross ManMiranda Mowbray6. Security Vulnerabilities, Backdoors, Exploits and the Marketplace for Each: The Return of Boba Fett – Bug Bounty Hunter in the New RepublicAlana Maurushat & Rob HamperPart II. A Matter of (Future) Life and Death7. Will My Genes Really Help Me Fit Into Those Jeans? Personal Genomics and Wrap ContractsAndelka M. Phillips8. On Living and Undead Wills: ZombAIs, Technology and the Future of Inheritance LawBurkhard Schafer9. ‘Be Right Back’: What Rights Do We Have Over Post-Mortem Avatars of Ourselves?Lilian Edwards & Edina HarbinjaPart III. Regulating Autonomous Technologies: Software Are Doing it For Themselves10. Autonomous Intelligent Agents and the Roman Law of SlaveryAndrew Katz & Michaela MacDonald11. Autonomous Vehicles: An Analysis of the Regulatory and Legal LandscapeCatherine EastonPart IV. Textual Poaching – Copyright in a Remix World12. Living in a Remixed World: Comparative Analysis of Transformative Uses in Copyright LawAndres Guadamuz13. Repost This: Instagram and the Art of Re-photographyMelissa de ZwartIndex