Can we employ design-based regulation while avoiding Brave new world?

Law, Innovation and Technology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-29

  Yeung, Karen ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84868112590     PISSN: 17579961     EISSN: 1757997X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5235/175799611796399812     Document Type: Article

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76. For ECHR purposes, the relevant rights are likely to include the right to respect for family and private life (Art 8), the right to found a family (Art 12), and the right to freedom from torture, inhuman or degrading treatment (Art 3).
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84. Law, Innovation and Technology 72 Various criminologists were, however, actively engaged in academic critiques of situational crime prevention techniques in the late 1990s. See eg Duff and Marshall (n 3).