Webinar - Legal consciousness in the tech community – A conceptual and analytical framework
02 december 2025 13:15 — 02 oktober 2025 15:00
Over the past decade, national and international policymakers—particularly within the European Union—have sought to address the socio-economic and ethical challenges of technological innovation through extensive legal frameworks.
Yet, the implementation of these regulations often falls to software developers and engineers, creating a pressing need for effective communication between legal and technical domains. Despite scholarly attention to regulatory approaches, digitalization, and interdisciplinary collaboration, no empirical research has yet examined how the tech community internalizes and navigates legal norms. This paper introduces legal consciousness as a conceptual lens to study this gap, proposing an analytical framework to guide future empirical inquiry into law–technology interactions.
Authors:
Katalin Kelemen (Law, Örebro University), Ana Maria Vargas Falla (Sociology of Law, Lund University), Pedro Zuidberg Dos Martires (Computer Science, Örebro University)
Discussant:
Stefan Larsson (Associate Professor in Technology and Social Change, Lund University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Technology and Society)
Registration:
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Draft paper will be distributed to registered participants a few days before the webinar.