Law, Science and Technology

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece

General Description

This specialisation examines the interrelations and co-production of law with techno-sciences. Following the co-production idiom developed by Sheila Jasanoff (2006), it sheds light on the institutions and actors that shape and construct innovation laws, regulatory science and civic epistemologies, with emphasis on how national and transnational institutions think, act and take decisions on science and technology policy. State and governmental departments, parliamentary committees, city councils and law courts are studied as loci where science, technology and law interact and are co-constructed.

Themes

The emergence of innovation laws, intellectual property legislation, regulatory sciences and epistemologies is studied across biotechnology, medical technologies, environment and energy, and ICT and emerging technologies, with comparisons across sectors, countries and regions, and particular attention to transnational institutions and actors.