Technology, Humans, and Discontent with Law: The Quest for Better Governance

PRELIMINARIES 1. Law's Imperfect Governance: Billboards 2. Law and Governance 3. Discontent 4. Low-Tech and High-Tech Settings 5. The Evolving Landscape of Law's Governance PART ONE: LAW'S GOVERNANCE IN A LOW-TECH WORLD Billboards #1: The Nature of our Discontent 6. Discontent with Claims to Authority 7. Discontent with the Promise of Law's Governance 8. Discontent with Legal Positions and Policy Choices 9. Discontent with Law's Performance 10. Discontent with Law's Officials and Practitioners 11. Discontent with Law's 'Access to Justice' Billboards #2: The Causes of our Discontent 12. Law's Governance as a Human Enterprise 13. Rules 14. Plurality Billboards #3: The Reasonableness of our Discontent 15. What is Reasonable, What Unreasonable? 16. Three Imperatives 17. Good Governance: Three Levels of Responsibility 18. Bad Governance, Reasonable Discontent 19. Good Governance, Unreasonable Discontent PART TWO: LAW'S GOVERNANCE IN A HIGH-TECH WORLD Billboards #4: Technology and the Provocation of Discontent 20. Technology, Discontent and Law's Governance 21. The Authority of Those Who Govern 22. The Promise of Law's Governance 23. Law's Positions and Policies 24. Law's Performance 25. Law's Practitioners Billboards #5: Technology and the Easing of Discontent 26. The Promise of Governance by Technology 27. Better for Order, Better for Democracy, Better for Justice 28. Smart Governance, Institutional Fitness, and the Metaverse 29. Technology and the Pre-Conditions for Governance Billboards #6: Technological Governance and Human Ambivalence 30. From Discontent to Discomfort and Doubts 31. Black Boxes 32. Black Holes 33. AI and Legal Personality 34. Human-Centric Governance 35. Concluding Remarks