Shooting Blanks: What Happens When Law Can't Keep Up With Technology?
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Jody Madeira |
TEDxZurich
• November 2020
Donor sperm and 3D printed firearms have one thing in common—they both illustrate how technology outpaces law. Listen as Professor Jody Lyneé Madeira describes what lessons we can learn from two case studies that prompt us to examine how law should respond to technologies that take and create life. First, how can law best hold fertility doctors accountable after their patients learn decades later that they were impregnated with their doctors' sperm without their consent? Second, what can courts do after the fact when courts initially permit 3D-blueprints to be distributed online, but then reverse course?