Ryan Calo, Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach (2025). For decades, law-and-tech scholarship has relied on intuition and analogy: a new technology arrives, legal scholars declare it ‘disruptive’, and commentary proliferates, particularly concerning its governance and affordances. Ryan Calo’s Law and Technology is an ambitious and lucid attempt to give an unruly field a shared intellectual backbone. Calo argues that this ad-hoc mode no longer suffices. Law’s relationship with technology, he insists, is clouded by what he calls ‘technological fog’ (p 86), which he describes as a recurring set of misconceptions that make technology appear inevitable, obscure human agency, and frustrate regulation … (more)
[Daniel Gervais, JOTWELL, 6 May 2026]
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