Oxford Handbook of Law, Regulation, and Technology

Oxford Handbook of Law, Regulation, and Technology

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O. Carter Snead & Stephanie A. Maloney, Technology and the American Constitution in Oxford Handbook of Law, Regulation, and Technology 296 (Eloise Scotford, Karen Yeung & Roger Brownsend eds., 2017)

This chapter examines how the structural provisions of the American Constitution and the federalist system of government they create uniquely shape the landscape of regulation for technology in the United States. The chapter’s inquiry focuses on the biomedical technologies associated with assisted reproduction and embryo research. These areas present vexing normative questions about the introduction and deployment of these technologies, showing the mechanisms, dynamics, virtues, and limits of the federalist system of government for the regulation of technology. In particular, the differing jurisdictional scope of federal and state regulation results in overlap and interplay between the two regulatory systems. The consequence of this dynamic is often a wide divergence in judgments about law and public policy. The chapter’s review of the constitutionally fragmented regime currently regulating different biotechnologies questions whether such a decentralized approach is well suited to technologies that involve essential moral and ethical judgments about the human person.

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9780199680832

Publication Date

7-2017

Publisher

Oxford Handbooks

City

London

Keywords

United States Constitution, federalism, regulation, biotechnology, embryonic stem cell research, human cloning, assisted reproduction

Disciplines

Constitutional Law | Law | Science and Technology Law

Oxford Handbook of Law, Regulation, and Technology


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