Journal Article

Guest Editorial: Tech and the transformation of legal imagination

Brännström, Leila, Noll, Gregor, Parsa, Amin, Gunneflo, Markus

2024

Overview

This special section on ‘Tech and the Transformation of Legal Imagination’ is an attempt at creatively exploring the law of the tech era. We believe that emerging lines of continuity and discontinuity in the current moment of tech-induced legal transformation are insufficiently investigated. Together with the authors of this special section, we therefore set out in an effort to recover and reimagine the histories of the law/tech nexus, to critically examine the imaginaries operative in the ongoing transformation but also to imagine the future of law. In so doing, we cover two different constellations: one in which the law is imagined, and another in which the law imagines. As this structure is one that operates in other disciplines, too—computer science is imagined as much as it imagines—we believe it will be a useful entry point for readers beyond the discipline of law to explore the relation between tech, law and imagination. In all, we make a move from the general theme of tech, legal transformation and imagination to the more specific one of tech and the transformation of legal imagination.

• Publisher: Springer London,Springer,Springer Nature B.V
• Subject: Artificial Intelligence / Business schools / Computer Science / Control / Editorial / Engineering Economics / Juridik / Law / Logistics / Marketing / Mechatronics / Methodology of the Social Sciences / Organization / Performing Arts / Robotics / Samhällsvetenskap / Social Sciences