The Nanotechnology Challenge: Creating Legal Institutions for Uncertain Risks

Book Overview

Nanotechnology is the wave of the future, and has already been incorporated into everything from toothpaste to socks to military equipment. The safety of nanotechnology for human health and the environment is a great unknown, however, and no legal system in the world has yet devised a way to reasonably address the uncertain risks of nanotechnology. To do so will require creating new legal institutions. This volume of essays by leading law scholars...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107440041
• ISBN13: 9781107440043
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"