Five conversations and new directions for law and technology.

Abstract

This article introduces five conversations that we might have about law and its imperfect governance. These conversations prompt a new direction for inquiry in law and technology which, broadly speaking, asks questions about the characteristics of governance projects (whether legal, regulatory, or technological), about the limits, problems, and challenges faced by those projects, and about the prospects for those projects and for governance itself. The article concludes by underlining the significance, both practical and theoretical, of this direction of inquiry, where we view law as a particular kind of governance project and where we are guided by an aspiration for good governance that builds from the foundational conditions for human social existence.