Human–Robot Interaction in Law and Its Narratives - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 100943148X ISBN 13: 9781009431484

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Robots are with us, but law and legal systems are not ready. This book identifies the issues posed by human-robot interactions in substantive law, procedural law, and law's narratives, and suggests how to address them. When human-robot interaction results in harm, who or what is responsible? Part I addresses substantive law, including the issues raised by attempts to impose criminal liability on different actors. And when robots perceive aspects of an alleged crime, can they be called as a sort of witness? Part II addresses procedural issues raised by human-robot interactions, including evidentiary problems arising out of data generated by robots monitoring humans, and issues of reliability and privacy. Beyond the standard fare of substantive and procedural law, and in view of the conceptual quandaries posed by robots, Part III offers chapters on narrative and rhetoric, suggesting different ways to understand human-robot interactions, and how to develop coherent frameworks to do that. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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About the Authors

Sabine Gless is Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Her research focuses on criminal justice issues related to the digitization of our living environment as well as on human rights in transnational criminal law. She is a member of editorial boards of various journals and serves as a delegate in science funding committees, including the German Research Foundation and the Leibniz Senate Evaluation Committee.

Helena Whalen-Bridge is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. A recipient of multiple competitive research grants, her research interests include legal ethics and access to justice, legal narrative, and legal education. Her research in narrative was awarded the 2019 Teresa Godwin Phelps Award for Scholarship in Legal Communication, and she is the recipient of NUS Teaching Excellence Awards.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 100943148X
• ISBN 13: 9781009431484
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 414
• Editor: Gless Sabine