The nanotechnology challenge creating legal institutions for uncertain risks

Nanotechnology is the wave of the future, and has already been incorporated into everything from toothpaste to socks to military equipment. The safety of nanotechnology for human health and the environment is a great unknown, however, and no legal system in the world has yet devised a way to reasona...

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  • The nanotechnology challenge David A. Dana Five myths about nanotechnology in the current public policy debate : a science and engineering perspective Kimberly A. Gray Public acceptance and the regulation of emerging technologies : the role of private politics Daniel Diermeier How scientific evidence links attitudes to behaviors James N. Druckman MEETING THE NANOTECHNOLOGY CHALLENGE BY CREATING NEW LEGAL INSTITUTIONS David A. Dana The missing market instrument : environmental assurance bonds and nanotechnology regulation Douglas A. Kysar Conditional liability relief as an incentive for precautionary study David A. Dana Transnational new governance and the international coordination of nanotechnology oversight Gary E. Marchant Labeling the little things Jonathan H. Adler Public nuisance : a potential common law response to nanotechnology's uncertain harms Albert C. Lin Enlarging the regulation of shrinking cosmetics and sunscreens Robin Fretwell Wilson Accelerating regulatory review John O. McGinnis The ethical issues in nanotechnology : persons and polity Laurie Zoloth An overview of the law of nanotechnology Fern P. O'Brian Regulatory responses to nanotechnology uncertainties Read D. Porter