SLUMBERING SENTINELS

 

Are judges and lawyers, the sentinels of the law, asleep while science and technology are racing out of legal control?

“This book is about a new jurisprudence and a new sociology for the world of science and technology. Professor Weeramantry, a man who has practiced, administered, judged and taught the law, brings a message which is specially relevant for our time. Like Bronowski, Weeramantry has made a crusade of communicating across barriers of professional specialization …..”

 

Justice M.D.Kirby, Former President of the International Commission of Juries, In his Foreword.

 

The book is a significant contribution to an area of utmost social relevance. Who will rule in the next century – technology or law?

 

Journal of the Indian Law Institute 1985