
Analysis
The Past
In the first stage of this project, focusing on the past, four leading scholars analyzed the rich history of previous soft-law governance of technology. Their research provides a substantive analysis of the strengths and weaknesses, successes and failures, and lessons for AI from past soft-law approaches to the governance of biotechnology, nanotechnology, information and communication technologies, and environmental technologies.
Publications
Analysis of past soft-law implementation from our project’s scholars