David Cowan (Author)

Published 03 Apr 2025
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 800
ISBN 9781526531001

By providing an accessible and holistic approach to law and technology issues, this book will guide practitioners through the technological challenges facing them both in their working practices and in the matters they handle. Law and Technology will help on both a practical and theoretical level, and will give practitioners line of sight of the technology challenges ahead. Students, and those undertaking further professional training, will find all the major issues are examined.

Law and Technology lays the groundwork for a discipline of Law and Technology and is an authoritative text for practitioners and a range of undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional courses in the discipline, as well as a reference on the impact of technology on other legal disciplines, for example company law, criminal law and the law of torts.

Uniquely, this book is rooted in Irish law, appropriately so given Ireland's role in the EU with a major Big Tech presence, and the fact that an Irish university is the home to the first-ever Law and Technology modules at the LLB level as core and compulsory subjects.

Legislation examined in this book includes:
Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022
Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Act 2022
Consumer Rights Act 2022
Data Protection Act 2018
General Data Protection Regulation
e-Privacy Regulations
Security of Network and Information Systems Directive
Digital Markets Act
Cybercrime Treaty

There has been huge growth in litigation in this area, much of it driven by the EU's digital strategy. The cases analysed cover such issues as data transfer from the EU to US for commercial purposes, ransomware attack, data retention, data protection, surveillance, right to privacy, data misuse, artificial intelligence, Internet jurisdiction, online hate and online harassment and stalking.

This book will be added to the Intellectual Property and IT Law service on Bloomsbury Professional Online.

Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Law's Digital Flux
2. The Legal System and Digital Disruption
3. Regulatory change and challenges
4. European Union Law: technology or technocracy?
5. Communication, law and technology
Part I: The Law of Technology
6. Intellectual Property
7. Transfer of Technology
8. Artificial Intelligence (AI)
9. Cybersecurity
10. Data Protection
11. Social Media
12. Platforms and BigTech
13. Autonomous Systems
14. Robot law
15. Fintech
16. Bioethics