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  • 1 - Law’s Imperfect Governance

  • from Part I - Discontent with Law’s Governance
  • Edited by Roger Brownsword, King's College London, Larry A. DiMatteo, University of Florida
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of the Governance of Technology
    Published online:
    30 October 2025
    Print publication:
    13 November 2025, pp 3-21

  • Summary

    Law’s governance seemingly faces an uncertain future. In one direction, the alternative to law’s governance is a dangerous state of disorder and, potentially, existential threats to humanity. That is not the direction in which we should be going, and we do not want our escalating discontent with law’s governance to give it any assistance. Law’s governance is already held in contempt by many. In the other direction, if we pursue technological solutions to the imperfections in law’s governance, there is a risk that we diminish the importance of humans and their agency. If any community is contemplating transition to governance by technology, it needs to start its impact assessment with the question of whether the new tools are compatible with sustaining the foundational conditions themselves.