ABSTRACT
This Chapter considers how business responds to changes in legal systems, whether wrought by technological changes, or otherwise. Significant changes are being wrought by developments in technology (especially information technology in its widest definition), so the focus is upon the relevance of past and current example of change to the current technological environment. It is not concerned with the social or economic implications of these technological revolutions – profound as they may be.2 Nor is it concerned with the effect of technological change upon the structure of government – upon the legal system (except briefly) – nor on how the structure of governments may have in turn effected technological changes (or changes of any other sort).3 Rather this Chapter is concerned with the possible response of businesses to paradigmatic4 changes to the legal system caused by technological or other changes external to the businesses.
