Who owns knowledge? : knowledge and the law / edited by Nico Stehr and Bernd Weiler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stehr, Nico.

Henning, Christoph, 1973-

Weiler, Bernd.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science and law.

Culture and law.

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Physical Description:

ix, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, 2008.

Contents:

Introduction: Knowledge and the Law: Can Knowledge be Made Just? / Nico Stehr, Band Weiler 1

Part 1 The Social Contexts of Knowledge and the Law

1 The Law and Economics of Rights in Valuable Information / Edmund W. Kitch 25

2 Scientific Norms, Legal Facts, and the Politics of Knowledge / Alfons Bora 67

3 Is a Just System also Fair? Traversing the Domain of Knowledge, Institutions, Culture, and Ethics / Anil K. Gupta 87

Part 2 Major Social Institutions, Knowledge and the Law

4 Fundamental Ignorance in the Regulation of Reactor Safety and Flooding: Risks of Knowledge Management in the Risk Society / Michael Huber 107

5 Science in Whose Interest? States, Firms, the Public, and Scientific Knowledge / Renee E. Marlin-Bennet 125

Part 3 The Social Context of Knowledge and the Law: Who Owns Knowledge

6 The Difficult Reception of Rigorous Descriptive Social Science in the Law / Christoph Engel 169

7 Inexplicable Law: Legality's Adventure in Europe / Alexander Somek 215

8 In Search of the Story / Viktor Mayer-Schonberger 237

9 Does the Category of Justice Apply to Drug Research Based on Traditional Knowledge? The Case of the Hoodia Cactus and the Politics of Biopiracy / Wolfgang van den Daele 255

10 Profiles and Correlatable Humans / Mireille Hildebrandt 265

11 Research Ethics as the Latest Moral Panic in the Governance of Scientific Knowledge / Steve Fuller 285.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0765803372

9780765803375

OCLC:

69594075