Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach

Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach offers a defensible and consistent approach to the legal analysis of technology. It puts forward a step-by-step methodology for thinking about and ultimately challenging technology to meet society's demands.

• Offers readers a step-by-step approach to the legal analysis and regulation of technology
• Can serve as a roadmap for scholarship or the basis of classroom teaching
• Challenges common misconceptions about regulating technology, such as that technology moves too fast to be regulated
• Written by a renowned expert in law and technology with decades of research and practice in both areas

Ryan Calo is Lane Powell and D. Wayne Gittinger Professor of Law at the University of Washington's School of Law and a professor at the Information School, having worked at the intersection of law and technology for over a decade. Calo is the cofounder of two interdisciplinary research institutions at the University focusing on technology policy and the study of misinformation, and has chaired a university-wide President and Provost task force on technology and society. He also cofounded the leading North American conference on robotics and artificial intelligence law and has testified before the United States Senate about technology four times.