Technology law, not well known, is a more diffuse and scattered specialty than traditional legal branches. Nevertheless, in this era of the digital revolution, the emergence of nanotechnology and biomedical advances, technology law is becoming crucial to regulate our society. Let's take a closer look at an emerging legal specialty.

Technology law: a constantly evolving field

Technology law has existed for more than a century, but has had to adjust to each new time period in history. Until the appearance of information technology, it was not considered a wholly separate field. During this past quarter century, however, the increasing pace and influence of technological innovation on our society have forced lawyers to take a closer look at it. There are many legal issues that stem from new technology, which require lawyers to continually adjust in order not to be left behind.

Many turbulent periods have marked technology law in 30 years. First, there was the first test-tube baby, in the 1980s, a technological triumph of life that nevertheless provoked vital questions on birth law, family law, etc. Ongoing innovation in the genetic and biomedical fields have since then raised a number of legal issues.

As for information technology, the rise of the Internet for all in the 1990s turned the field upside down and led to huge legal gaps.