Technology and Regulation (TechReg)

About the Journal

Technology and Regulation (TechReg) is an international journal of law, technology and society, with an interdisciplinary identity. TechReg provides an online platform for disseminating original research on the legal and regulatory challenges posed by existing and emerging technologies (and their applications) including, but by no means limited to, the Internet and digital technology, artificial intelligence and machine learning, robotics, neurotechnology, nanotechnology, biotechnology, energy and climate change technology, and health and food technology. We conceive of regulation broadly to encompass ways of dealing with, ordering and understanding technologies and their consequences, such as through legal regulation, competition, social norms and standards, and technology design (or in Lessig’s terms: law, market, norms and architecture).

We aim to address critical and sometimes controversial questions such as:

• How do new technologies shape society both positively and negatively?
• Should technology development be steered towards societal goals, and if so, which goals and how?
• What are the benefits and dangers of regulating human behavior through technology?
• What is the most appropriate response to technological innovation, in general or in particular cases?

It is in this sense that TechReg is intrinsically interdisciplinary: we believe that legal and regulatory debates on technology are inextricable from societal, political and economic concerns, and that therefore technology regulation requires a multidisciplinary, integrated approach. Through a combination of monodisciplinary, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary articles, the journal aims to contribute to an integrated vision of law, technology and society.

We invite original, well-researched and methodologically rigorous submissions from academics and practitioners, including policy makers, on a wide range of research areas such as privacy and data protection, security, surveillance, cybercrime, intellectual property, innovation, competition, governance, risk, ethics, media and data studies, and others.

Technology and Regulation is published by Open Press TiU and publishes articles online on a rolling basis. 

Published by Open Press TiU 
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
DOI: 10.26116/techreg | ISSN: 2666-139X

Editorial Team

Editor-in-Chief

• Ronald Leenes, Professor, Tilburg University

Managing Director

Editors

• Lillian Edwards, professor of law, innovation, and society, Newcastle University, UK.
• Raphaël Gellert, Assistant Professor, Radboud University
• Inge Graef, Associate Professor, Tilburg University
• Esther Keymolen, Associate Professor, Tilburg University
• Eleni Kosta, Professor, Tilburg University
• Eliza Mik, Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Giorgio Monti, Professor, Tilburg University
• Nadezhda Purtova, Associate Professor, Utrecht University
• Sofia Ranchordas, Professor, Tilburg University
• Leonie Reins, Professor, Erasmus University
• Bart van der Sloot, Associate Professor, Tilburg University
• Cristiana Teixeira Santos, Assistant Professor in Law and Technology, Utrecht University

Junior Editors

• Valeria Lebādā, Tilburg University

Editorial Board Committee

• Jean-François Blanchette, Associate Professor of Informatics, UCLA
• Lyria Bennett Moses, Professor and Director of the Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation, University of New South Wales
• Ian Brown, Visiting Professor, Fundação Getulio Vargas Direito Rio
• Mark Coeckelbergh, Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology, University of Vienna
• Michael Froomkin, Full Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law
• Michiel Heldeweg, Full Professor of Law, Governance and Technology, University of Twente
• Veerle Heyvaert, Associate Professor (Reader) of Law, London School of Economics
• Mireille Hildebrandt, Professor of Smart Environments, Data Protection and the Rule of Law, Radboud University
• Fleur Johns, Professor, Associate Dean (Research), University of New South Wales
• Tim Kelly, Lead ICT Policy Specialist, World Bank
• Bert-Jaap Koops, Full Professor, Tilburg University
• Pierre Larouche, Full Professor in Law and Innovation, University of Montreal
• Deirdre Mulligan, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
• Andrew Murray, Professor of Law, London School of Economics
• Bryce Newell, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon
• Carly Nyst, Director, Ada Lovelace Institute
• René von Schomberg, Guest Professor, Technische Universität Darmstadt
• Karen Yeung, Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics, Birmingham Law School

Former Editorial Board Committee Members

• Ian Kerr, Full Professor and Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law, and Technology, University of Ottawa (deceased)

Policies

Open access policy

This journal is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his or her institution. Users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or to use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This journal does not charge article processing fees.

Research integrity

TechReg adheres to the best practices in the ethics of scholarly publishing stated in the COPE’s (Committee on Publication Ethics) Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for all parties involved: Authors, Reviewers and the Publisher. If you have questions or concerns regarding research integrity or publishing ethics in this journal, you may contact the editor.

Peer review process

All papers submitted to TechReg are subject to anonymous, double-blinded (author and reviewer anonymized) peer review. Papers that are outside the scope of the journal, that do not comply with the guidelines below or are otherwise judged to be unsuitable by the editor will be rejected without peer review. Appropriate papers are sent to an independent referee for evaluation, who does not know the identity of the author. Referees advise on factors such as the originality and merit of the paper; the editors decide on publication. We aim to have short processing time for papers, typically below three months. 

Authorship

All listed authors of the article should have made a significant contribution to the work. Others who have assisted in preparing the paper should be acknowledged in the article.

Copyright and licensing

Authors retain the copyright to their articles and full publishing rights without restrictions. Submissions are published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license or a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license.

Archiving policy

This journal utilises Portico and PKP PN to create permanent archives for the purposes of preservation and restoration.

Repository policy

Authors are allowed and encouraged to deposit versions of their work in a repository of their choice. 

ORCID ID

Authors are encouraged to use their ORCID ID when submitting their manuscript.

Author Guidelines

TechReg aims to become a leading scholarly journal devoted to Technology and Regulation. It provides fast-tracked double-blind peer-review. Its PDF papers are available for download (Open Access). TechReg does not charge any processing fee from authors, nor charges readers.

TechReg aims to publish pieces of the highest quality and will hence be selective. We do welcome submissions from both established authors and new authors. We have a rigorous but fair review process that considers each manuscript carefully before making a publication decision.

TechReg requires exclusive submission. Please do not submit your article if it is currently under consideration by another journal. All material to be considered for publication in TechReg should be submitted via the journal's online submission system. Submission by e-mail cannot be accommodated.

All papers submitted to TechReg are subject to anonymous, double-blinded (author and reviewer anonymized) peer review. We aim to have short processing time for papers, typically below three months. Read more about our peer review process here.

Our stylistic and bibliographic guidelines for our articles are as follows:

• Articles should be around 8,000-12,000 words (including footnotes) in length. Articles can be submitted in MS Word, OpenOffice or RTF. For articles longer than 12,000 words, please contact the editors prior to submission.
• Each article should start with a short abstract of around 120 words. It should also contain some 10 keywords (counting separate words). Abstract and keywords need to be uploaded in the submission system as well.
• Author affiliation needs to be provided in the form, e.g.: "Ronald Leenes is professor of regulation by technology at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society at Tilburg University, the Netherlands."
• All contributions use footnotes for both text outside of the main argument as well as the references (legal citation method), but not a list of references. Common references to legal sources:
• EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), OJ 2016 L 119/1.
• EU Directive 95/46: Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, OJ 1995 L 281/31.
• Papers of the Article 29 Working Party (example): Article 29 Working Party, ‘Opinion 2/2003 on the application of the data protection principles to the WHOIS directories’ (WP 76, 13 June 2003), at 4EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, OJ 2010 C 83/389.
• European Convention on Human Rights: European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Sept. 3, 1953, ETS 5, 213 UNTS 221.
• Judgments of the Court of Justice of the EU (example): Bodil Lindqvist, Case C-101/01, [2003] ECR I-12971 (ECLI:EU:C:2003:596), at para. 74.
• Council of Europe Convention 108: Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data 1981, ETS 108.
• Articles should be preferably submitted in British English. The headings should be structured as follows (maximum 3 levels):
  • 1.
  • 1.1
  • 1.1.1
• The journal follows OSCOLA (Oxford Standard Citation for Legal Authorities) (no ibid), which can be downloaded at http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/publications/oscola.php
• Use of a reference manager such as Zotero is advised.
• Submissions must be linguistically correct and the references in the footnotes must be complete and properly (OSCOLA) formatted.

Since we use the rolling publication model, published papers will become available on the site after they have been typeset for publication. Prior to publication, TechReg will provide the author(s) with a proof of their paper. This is for correcting minor mistakes, not for revision.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, and all DOIs and URLs for references have been provided, when available.
• The author declares the absence of any conflict of interest and warrants that the work does not infringe upon any copyright, proprietary, or personal right of any third party.
• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file.
• The text of the submission does not include author name or affiliation (in view of double-blind review).

Copyright Notice

Technology and Regulation (TechReg) is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his or her institution. Users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or to use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. Submissions are published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license or a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license.

Privacy Statement

We take seriously our duty to process your personal data in a fair and transparent way. We collect and manage user data according to our Privacy Policy. By using the journal and platform websites, you agree to the terms of this policy.

Contact

Technology and Regulation
Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT)
Tilburg Law School
P.O. Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands