Global Dialogues on Law and Technology

This book explores how technology today shapes every aspect of human life, from communication and commerce to governance and justice. It invites readers to reimagine how legal and policy frameworks can be reshaped to safeguard rights, foster innovation, and ensure justice in a rapidly evolving digital world.

Sweta Lakhani is Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean (LLM Blended Programme) at Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India. Her interdisciplinary research lies at the intersection of law, technology, and behavioural science, with a particular focus on how emerging technologies shape legal norms, regulatory frameworks, and human decision-making. Subhajit Basu is Professor of Law and Technology at the University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, and Editor-in-Chief of the International Review of Law, Computers & Technology. His research focuses on AI, big data, autonomous systems, online harms, privacy, and access to justice, with particular attention to the Global South.

Introduction: global dialogues on law and technology 1. Transparency as the defining feature for developing risk assessment AI technology for border control 2. ChatGPT for good? Taking 'beneficence' seriously in the regulation of generative artificial intelligence 3. Patents in metaverse: an analysis of scope and challenges 4. Contours of data protection in India: the consent dilemma 5. Standardised cookie banner: a solution to the cookie consent problem 6. When it's cute but also dark: critical analysis of FarmVille 3's game design in the digital economy 7. Getting global cooperation right on internet governance: strategic roadmaps for the future 8. Minimising unnecessary restrictions on cross-border data flows? Indonesia's position and challenges post personal data protection act enactment