Introduction: Knowledge and the law : can knowledge be made just? / Nico Stehr and Bernd Weiler -- The social contexts of knowledge and the law -- Introduction to part 1 / Steve Fuller -- The law and economics of rights in valuable information / Edmund W. Kitch -- Scientific norms, legal facts, and the politics of knowledge / Alfons Bora -- Is a just system also fair? traversing the domain of knowledge, institutions, culture, and ethics / Anil K. Gupta -- Major social institutions, knowledge and the law -- Introduction to part 2 / Steve Fuller -- Fundamental ignorance in the regulation of reactor safety and flooding: risks of knowledge management in the risk society / Michael Huber -- Science in whole interest? states, firms, the public, and scientific knowledge / Renée E. Marlin-Bennet -- The social context of knowledge and the law: who owns knowldege -- Introduction to part 3 / J. Rogers Hollingsworth -- The difficult reception of rigorous descriptive social science in the law / Christoph Engel. Inexplicable law : legality's adventure in Europe / Alexander Somek -- In search of the story / Viktor Mayer-Schönberger -- Does the category of justice apply to drug research based on traditional knowledge? the case of the Hoodia Cactus and the politics of biopiracy / Wolfgang van den Daele -- Profiles and correlatable humans / Mireille Hildebrandt -- Research ethics as the latest moral panic in the governance of scientific knowledge / Steve Fuller -- Concluding observations / Rolf Rogowski.
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