Law 2.0 – Robots, social media and the traditional legal framework

Society has tremendously changed the last decade and still is in a transitional period because of different technological evolutions.These technological developments affect our way of thinking, doing business, communicating, interaction and the work/life balance.Some argue the law will need a fundamental make-over as well.The question that arises from a legal point of view is thus whether the existing long-standing legal principles are compatible with technological evolutions or, instead, new legislation will need to be adopted.If this is the case, we will formulate some (general) recommendations that can be taken into account by policy-makers, judges and lawyers when creating or applying the law in the 'society of tomorrow'.Our presentation will try to provide an answer to these fundamental issues through a case-study of recent evolutions in two different fields of law, namely the introduction of self-driving cars (SDCs) in traffic for liability law and the use of social media in court proceedings for procedural law.