Who Owns Knowledge?: Knowledge and the Law Book

Preface   Nico Stehr     vii
Introduction: Knowledge and the Law: Can Knowledge be Made Just?   Nico Stehr   Band Weiler     1
The Social Contexts of Knowledge and the Law
Introduction to Part 1   Steve Fuller     17
The Law and Economics of Rights in Valuable Information   Edmund W. Kitch     25
Scientific Norms, Legal Facts, and the Politics of Knowledge   Alfons Bora     67
Is a Just System also Fair? Traversing the Domain of Knowledge, Institutions, Culture, and Ethics   Anil K. Gupta     87
Major Social Institutions, Knowledge and the Law
Introduction to Part 2   Steve Fuller     101
Fundamental Ignorance in the Regulation of Reactor Safety and Flooding: Risks of Knowledge Management in the Risk Society   Michael Huber     107
Science in Whose Interest? States, Firms, the Public, and Scientific Knowledge   Renee E. Marlin-Bennet     125
The Social Context of Knowledge and the Law: Who Owns Knowledge
Introduction to Part 3   J. Rogers Hollingsworth     153
The Difficult Reception of Rigorous Descriptive Social Science in the Law   Christoph Engel     169
Inexplicable Law: Legality's Adventure in Europe   Alexander Somek     215
In Search of theStory   Viktor Mayer-Schonberger     237
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     255
Profiles and Correlatable Humans   Mireille Hildebrandt     265
Research Ethics as the Latest Moral Panic in the Governance of Scientific Knowledge   Steve Fuller     285
Concluding Observations   Ralf Rogowski     307
Contributors     315
Index     321