Robotic and automated systems have grown significantly in complexity, functionality, and reach. As robotics becomes increasingly embedded in everyday life, a growing community of scholars and legal experts is engaging with the evolving legal, ethical, and societal questions raised by these technologies.
Along with Prof. Ryan Calo and Prof. A. Michael Froomkin, Dr. Kristen Thomasen co-edited Robot Law: Volume II. A sequel to the groundbreaking Robot Law (2016), this new volume discusses the societal and economic transformations introduced by robotics. The authors focus on the legal and policy questions that robots present as well as their disruption of existing legal regimes.
Dr. Kristen Thomasen is an Associate Member of the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society, and an Associate Professor and the Senior Chair of Law, Robotics and Society at the University of Windsor’s within the Faculty of Law. Together with the other authors, she offers a range of legal, policy, and ethical interventions to help channel robotics and AI in the public interest. Furthermore, the book opens an important dialogue, underscoring the need to confront and mitigate the potential communicative or expressive harm that could be caused by this technology.
Robot Law: Volume II is a must-read for law professors, students, legal practitioners, and judges, as well as for engineering and AI scholars, researchers, and students working in robotics. Policymakers will also benefit from the book’s insights and proposed approaches to navigating the complex impacts of robotics and artificial intelligence.
The book is now available through Edward Elgar Publishing.