Abstract

In this chapter, it is the idea of the 'authority of law' that is the object of rethinking. The traditional view offers a very limited answer to questions concerning the 'authority' of particular legal officials or laws. Once the challenge is to the authority of a particular legal system (or of Law itself) rather than to the authorisation for a particular person or act within the legal system, the traditional view has no answer. Information technologies present one kind of challenge because it is not clear which legal system, if any, has the best claims to authority in relation to agents who act in cyberspace. However, the more radical challenge comes from technologies that promise to 'do governance' better than humans and rules. When set against new technologies, on what basis does the law claim its authority?

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