ABSTRACT
This book is an introduction to what the author will call ‘Law 3.0.’ While Law 3.0 is a particular kind of conversation (and mindset), to be compared and contrasted with two other conversations (and mindsets), Law 1.0 and Law 2.0, it is also a shorthand for an extended field of legal interest – a field that features these three coexisting and interacting conversations (and mindsets). To illustrate Law 3.0, recall the disruption at London Gatwick airport shortly before Christmas 2018, when an unauthorised drone was sighted in the vicinity of the airfield. Characteristically, the form of reasoning in Law 1.0 is the application of rules, standards, and general principles to particular fact situations. In Law 2.0, the centre of gravity of law shifts from the courts and historic codes to the political arena where governments operate through the executive and the legislative assemblies. The evolution from Law 2.0 to Law 3.0 builds on the instrumentalism of the former.
