Gene Editing Law and the Environment

Technologies like CRISPR and gene drives are ushering in a new era of genetic engineering wherein the technical means to modify DNA are cheaper faster more accurate more widely accessible and with more far-reaching effects than ever before. These cutting-edge technologies raise legal ethical cultural and ecological questions that are so broad and consequential for both human and other-than-human life that they can be difficult to grasp. What is clear however is that the power to directly alter not just a singular form of life but also the genetics of entire species and thus the composition of ecosystems is currently both inadequately regulated and undertheorized. In Gene Editing Law and the Environment distinguished scholars from law the life sciences philosophy environmental studies science and technology studies animal health and religious studies examine what is at stake with these new biotechnologies for life and law both human and beyond. . Language: English