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Knowledge, Technology and Law The relationships between knowledge, technologies, and legal processes are central to the constitution of contemporary societies. As such, they have cometoprovidethefocusforarangeofacademicprojects,acrossinterdisci- plinarylegalstudiesandthesocialsciences.Thedomainsofmedicallawand ethics, intellectual property law, environmental law and criminal law are just someofthosewithinwhichthepervasiveplaceand‘impact’oftechnoscience is immediately apparent. At the same time, social scientists investigating the making of technology and expertise – in particular, scholars working within the traditionof science and technology studies – frequentlyinterrogate how regulation and legal processes, and the making of knowledge and technolo- gies, are intermingled in complex ways that come to shape and define each other. This book charts the important interface between studies of law, science and society, as explored from the perspectives of socio-legal studies and the increasingly influential field of science and technology studies. It bringstogetherscholarsfrombothareastointerrogatethejointrolesoflaw andscienceintheconstructionandstabilizationofsocio-technicalnetworks, objects,andstandards,aswellastheirplaceintheproductionofcontempo- rary social realities and subjectivities. Emilie CloatreisaSeniorLecturerinKentLawSchoolattheUniversityof Kent. MartynPickersgillisWellcomeTrustSeniorResearchFellowinBiomedical Ethics in the Centre for Population Health Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Law, Science and Society series General editors John Paterson JulianWebb University of Aberdeen, UK University of Melbourne,Australia Law’srolehasoftenbeenunderstoodasoneofimplementingpoliticaldeci- sions concerning the relationship between science and society. Increasingly, however,asourunderstandingofthecomplexdynamicbetweenlaw,science and society deepens, this instrumental characterisation is seen to be inade- quate, but as yet we have only a limited conception of what might take its place. If progress is to be made in our legal and scientific understanding of the problems society faces, then there needs to be space for innovative and radical thinking about law and science. Law, Science and Society is intended to provide that space. Theoverarchingaimoftheseriesistosupportthepublicationofnewand groundbreaking empirical or theoretical contributions that will advance understanding between the disciplines of law, and the social, pure and applied sciences. General topics relevant to the series include studies of: • law and the international trade in science and technology; • risk and the regulation of science and technology; • law, science and the environment; • the reception of scientific discourses by law and the legal process; • law, chaos and complexity; • law and the brain. Titles in this series: Absent Environments Theorising environmental law and the city AndreasPhilippopoulos-Mihalopoulos Uncertain Risks Regulated EditedbyEllenVosandMichelleEverson The Regulation of Animal Health and Welfare Science, law and policy JohnMcEldowney,WynGrant,andGrahamMedley Knowledge, Technology and Law EditedbyEmilieCloatreandMartynPickersgill This page intentionally left blank Knowledge, Technology and Law Edited by Emilie Cloatre and Martyn Pickersgill Firstpublished2015 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,Oxon,OX144RN andbyRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 aGlassHouseBook RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©2015EmilieCloatreandMartynPickersgill TherightofEmilieCloatreandMartynPickersgilltobeidentifiedas authorofthisworkhasbeenassertedbytheminaccordancewith sections77and78oftheCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedor reproducedorutilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,or othermeans,nowknownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopying andrecording,orinanyinformationstorageorretrievalsystem,without permissioninwritingfromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksor registeredtrademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationand explanationwithoutintenttoinfringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Knowledge,technology,andlaw/editedbyEmilieCloatre,Martyn Pickersgill. pagescm.—(Law,science,andsociety) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-415-62862-4(hardback)—ISBN978-0-203-79760-0(ebk) 1.Technologyandlaw.2.Scienceandlaw.I.Cloatre,Emilie,editorof compilation.II.Pickersgill,Martyn,editorofcompilation. K487.T4K592014 340'.11—dc23 2014013342 ISBN:978-0-415-62862-4(hbk) ISBN:978-0-203-79760-0(ebk) TypesetinGalliard byFiSHBooksLtd,Enfield Contents Notesoncontributors ix Acknowledgements xi Introduction 1 EMILIECLOATREANDMARTYNPICKERSGILL SECTION 1 Law, expertise and public participation 15 1 Science, uncertainty and the normative question of epistemic governance in policymaking 17 SUJATHARAMAN 2 Contingent participation: imaginaries of sustainable technoscientific innovation in the European Union 33 MARKL.FLEARANDTHOMASPFISTER 3 The voice of silence: UK patients’ silent resistance to the assisted reproduction regulations 50 ILKETURKMENDAG SECTION 2 Objects and epistemologies in criminal law 69 4 Unchaining research: processes of dis/empowerment and the social study of criminal law and investigation 71 BARBARAPRAINSACK 5 Making the colposcope ‘forensic’: the medico-legal management of a controversial visualisation device 86 GETHINREES viii Contents 6 Telling tales: some episodes from the multiple lives of the polygraph machine 104 ANDREWBALMER SECTION 3 Regulation, ethics and values 119 7 Through the thicket and across the divide: successfully navigating the regulatory landscape in life sciences research 121 GRAEMELAURIEANDSHAWNH.E.HARMON 8 Misconduct hunting: research integrity via law, science and technology 137 MARIE-ANDRÉEJACOB 9 Financial derivatives and the challenge of performation: where contingency meets contestability 154 DONATELLAALESSANDRINI SECTION 4 Law, technoscience and the stabilization of knowledge 171 10 Epistemic jurisdictions: science and courts in regulatory (de)centralisation 173 DAVIDE.WINICKOFF 11 Un-knowing exposure: toxic emergency housing, strategic inconclusivity and governance in the US Gulf South 189 NICHOLASSHAPIRO 12 A likely story: HIV and the definition of disability in UK employment equality law, 1996–2005 206 EMILYGRABHAM 13 Paper prototypes 223 ALAINPOTTAGE Index 239 Notes on contributors Donatella Alessandrini is Reader in Law in Kent Law School at the University of Kent. Andrew BalmerisSimonResearchFellowinSociologyattheUniversityof Manchester. Emilie CloatreisaSeniorLecturerinKentLawSchoolattheUniversityof Kent. Mark L. Flear is a Lecturer in the School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast. EmilyGrabhamisaReaderinLawinKentLawSchoolattheUniversityof Kent. Shawn H.E. Harmon is Lecturer in Regulation and Risk in the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh. Marie-Andrée Jacob is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at Keele University. Graeme Laurie is Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh. Thomas Pfister is Director of the Energy Cultures Research Group in the Department of Social Science at Zeppelin University. MartynPickersgillisWellcomeTrustSeniorResearchFellowinBiomedical Ethics in the Centre for Population Health Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Alain Pottage is Professor of Law in the Law Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Barbara Prainsack is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine at King’s College London. Sujatha Raman is Deputy Director of the Leverhulme Trust ‘Making
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