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
From the foreward
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
