Friends, romans, countrymen: Is there a universal right to identity?

Law, Innovation and Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 223-249

  Brownsword, Roger ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84901123207     PISSN: 17579961     EISSN: 1757997X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17579961.2009.11428372     Document Type: Article

References (64)

1. For an overview, see the entry for ‘Personal Identity’ in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, available at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal (last accessed 25 June 2009).
2. David Lyon, Identifying Citizens (Polity, 2009).
3. John Gibb, Who’s Watching You? (Collins and Brown, 2005) 236.
4. EC Health and Consumers Directorate-General, Data Collection, Targeting and Profiling of Consumers for Commercial Purposes in Online Environments (Brussels, 05.03.2009, SANCO/B2/GA/SR/GR) 8.
5. Compare Roger Smith, Being Human (University of Manchester Press, 2007) 114:
6. There are too many sceptics to list, but for a sweeping survey of sceptical thought see Gunther Teubner, ‘Self-Subversive Justice: Contingency or Transcendental Formula of Law?M’ (2009) 72 Modern Law Review 1.
7. Alan Gewirth, Reason and Morality (University of Chicago Press, 1978).
8. See Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Company Limited (Second Phase) (Belgium v Spain) [1970] ICJ Rep 3.
9. Margot Salomon, Global Responsibility for Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2007) 178.
10. Margot Salomon, Global Responsibility for Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2007), 179.
11. See, eg, Edward Regis Jr (ed), Gewirth’s Ethical Rationalism (University of Chicago Press, 1984).
12. Deryck Beyleveld, The Dialectical Necessity of Morality: An Analysis and Defense of Alan Gewirth’s Argument to the PGC (University of Chicago Press, 1991).
13. Andrew Chitty, ‘Protagonist and Subject in Gewirth’s Argument for Human RightsM’ (2008) 19 King’s Law Journal 1.
14. Deryck Beyleveld and Gerhard Bos, ‘The Foundational Role of the Principle of Instrumental Reason in Gewirth’s Argument for the Principle of Generic Consistency: A Response to Andrew ChittyM’ (2009) 20 King’s Law Journal 1.
15. Deryck Beyleveld and Gerhard Bos, ‘The Foundational Role of the Principle of Instrumental Reason in Gewirth’s Argument for the Principle of Generic Consistency: A Response to Andrew ChittyM’ (2009) 20 King’s Law Journal, 13.
16. Roger Brownsword, Rights, Regulation, and the Technological Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2008) ch 10;
17. ‘Autonomy, Delegation, and Responsibility: Agents in Autonomic Computing Environments’ in Mireille Hildebrandt and Antoinette Rouvroy (eds), Autonomic Computing and Transformations of Human Agency (Routledge, 2010) (forthcoming).
18. Stephen J Morse, ‘Moral and Legal Responsibility and the New Neuroscience’ in Judy Illes (ed), Neuroethics (Oxford University Press, 2006) 33.
19. Beyleveld and Vos (n 14). Friends, Romans, Countrymen: Is there a Universal Right to Identity? 231
20. Laura Westra, ‘Environmental Rights and Human Rights: The Final Enclosure Movement’ in Roger Brownsword (ed), Human Rights: Global Governance and the Quest for Justice Vol IV (Hart Publishing, 2004) 107.
21. Compare James Griffin, On Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2008) 134-5, reflecting on the move from the prudential to the moral
22. Christian Illies, ‘Why Should We Help the Poor? Philosophy and Poverty’ in Michael Boylan (ed), International Public Health Policy and Ethics (Springer, 2008) 143.
23. James Griffin, On Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2008).
24. James Griffin, On Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2008), 33.
25. James Griffin, On Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2008), 51.
26. James Griffin, On Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2008), 4.
27. Roger Brownsword, ‘Human Dignity, Ethical Pluralism, and the Regulation of Modern Biotechnologies’ in Thérèse Murphy (ed), New Technologies and Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2009) 19.
28. Roger Brownsword, ‘Regulating Human Enhancement: Things Can Only Get Better?' (2009) 1 Law, Innovation and Technology 125, 136-40.
29. See, further, Roger Brownsword, ‘Making People Better and Making Better People: Bioethics and the Regulation of Stem Cell ResearchM’ (2005) 1 Journal of Academic Legal Studies 3;
30. ‘Cloning, Zoning and the Harm Principle’ in SAM McLean (ed), First Do No Harm (Ashgate, 2006) 527.
31. Griffin (n 22). At 149, Griffin summarises his position thus: 30 Compare Roger Brownsword, ‘Bioethics: Bridging from Morality to Law?' in Michael Freeman (ed), Law and Bioethics (Current Legal Issues Vol 11) (Oxford University Press, 2008) 12.
32. Deryck Beyleveld and Roger Brownsword, ‘Principle, Proceduralism and Precaution in a Community of RightsM’ (2006) 19 Ratio Juris 141.
33. Compare the issues in the case of S and Marper v the United Kingdom (Application Nos 30562/04 and 30566/04) at the European Court of Human Rights.
34. Roger Brownsword, ‘After Marper: Two Readings, Two Responses’ (2009) 6:1 SCRIPTed 1.
35. Compare Lyon (n 3).
36. Deryck Beyleveld and Roger Brownsword, ‘Complex Technology, Complex Calculations: Uses and Abuses of Precautionary Reasoning in Law’ in Marcus Duwell and Paul Sollie (eds), Evaluating New Technologies: Methodological Problems for the Ethical Assessment of Technological Developments (Springer, 2009) 175;
37. Roger Brownsword, ‘Nanoethics: Old Wine, New Bottles?' [2009] European Journal of Consumer Policy (online).
38. Griffin (n 22) 233.
39. Mark A Rothstein and Meghan K Talbott, ‘The Expanding Use of DNA in Law Enforcement: What Role for Privacy?M’ (2006) 34 Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 153, 160-1.
40. Compare the entry for ‘Personal Autonomy’ in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/personal-autonomy/index.html) (last accessed 15 July 2009), where four principal approaches are identified, namely: coherentist, reasons-responsive, responsiveness-to-reasoning, and incompatibilist;
41. Gerald Dworkin, The Theory and Practice of Autonomy (Cambridge University Press, 1988).
42. Deryck Beyleveld and Roger Brownsword, Human Dignity in Bioethics and Biolaw (Oxford University Press, 2001).
43. See, eg, Roger Brownsword, ‘Knowing Me, Knowing You-Profiling, Privacy and the Public Interest’ in Mireille Hildebrandt and Serge Gutwirth (eds), Profiling the European Citizen (Springer, 2008) 362;
44. ‘Consent in Data Protection Law: Privacy, Fair Processing, and Confidentiality’ in Serge Gutwirth, Yves Poullet, Paul de Hert, Cécile de Terwangne and Sjaak Nouwt (eds), Reinventing Data Protection? (Springer, 2009) 83.
45. Stephen J Morse, ‘Uncontrollable Urges and Irrational PeopleM’ (2002) 88 Virginia Law Review 1025.
46. Stephen J Morse, ‘Uncontrollable Urges and Irrational PeopleM’ (2002) 88 Virginia Law Review, 1065-6.
47. See, eg, Dai Rees and Steven Rose (eds), The New Brain Sciences-Perils and Prospects (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
48. Nikolas Rose, The Politics of Life Itself (Princeton University Press, 2007) 192.
49. Generally, see David Nutt, Trevor W Robbins, Gerald W Stimson, Martin Ince and Andrew Jackson (eds), Drugs and the Future (Academic Press, 2007).
50. Thomas Buller, ‘Brains, Lies, and Psychological Explanations’ in Judy Illes (ed), Neuroethics (Oxford University Press, 2006) 51, 56.
51. Stephen J Morse, ‘Moral and Legal Responsibility and the New Neuroscience’ in Judy Illes (ed), Neuroethics (Oxford University Press, 2006) 33.
52. Stephen J Morse, ‘Moral and Legal Responsibility and the New Neuroscience’ in Judy Illes (ed), Neuroethics (Oxford University Press, 2006), 47.
53. Compare Joshua Greene and Jonathan Cohen, ‘For the Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing and EverythingM’ (2004) 359 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B 1775.
54. See Roger Brownsword, Rights, Regulation, and the Technological Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2008) esp ch 10.
55. Compare Bert-Jaap Koops, ‘The Crime SocietyM’ (2009) 1 Law, Innovation and Technology 93.
56. Griffin (n 22) 26.
57. Compare Alan Norrie, ‘Citizenship, Authoritarianism and the Changing Shape of the Criminal Law’ in Bernadette McSherry, Alan Norrie and Simon Bronitt (eds), Regulating Deviance (Hart Publishing, 2009) 13.
58. Lucia Zedner, ‘Fixing the Future? The Pre-emptive Turn in Criminal Justice’ in McSherry, Norrie and Bronitt (eds), Regulating Deviance (Hart Publishing, 2009), 35.
59. Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (Washington Square, 1984) 43.
60. As a starting point, see Deryck Beyleveld and Roger Brownsword, Consent in the Law (Hart Publishing, 2007) ch 4.
61. Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Dementia: Ethical Issues (London, 2009).
62. See EC Health and Consumers Directorate-General, Data Collection, Targeting and Profiling of Consumers for Commercial Purposes in Online Environments (Brussels, 05.03.2009, SANCO/B2/GA/SR/GR).
63. Roger Brownsword and Han Somsen, ‘Law, Innovation, and Technology: Before We Fast Forward-A Forum for Debate (2009) 1 Law, Innovation and Technology 1, 45-48.
64. Brownsword and Somsen, ‘Law, Innovation, and Technology: Before We Fast Forward-A Forum for Debate (2009) 1 Law, Innovation and Technology, 48.