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14 Law, Culture & Human. 5 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/lculh14 and id is 1 raw text is: Law, Culture and the Humanities 2018, Vol. 14(1) 5 Editorial @ The Author(s) 2017 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.ul/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1743872117751731 journals.sagepub.com/home/Ich OSAGE What are the benefits and limits of stretching scholarly inquiry beyond the boundaries of conventional disciplines? What happens when we bring questions from outside one domain of inquiry into another? Can we illuminate important questions of law and policy through exploration of humanistic texts, images, artefacts? These questions are, of course, central to the work being done by people who are affiliated with the Association of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. They are the kinds of questions which animate the three contributions to the mini- symposium, Science, Science Fiction and International Law that we are publishing in this issue in lieu of our regular Commentary Section. As one of the contributions describes the ambition of this mini-symposium, The impact of new technologies on human rights, humanitarian issues and indeed on what it means to be human in a technological age, suffers from a paucity of international legal attention. The latter has been attributed to various factors ranging from technophobia and technological illiteracy, inclusive of an instrumentalist view of technology, to the sense that such attention is the domain of science-fiction, not of international law. The article extends an invitation to pay attention to the attention science-fiction has given to the man-machine interaction and its impact on the human condition. I trust that you will find it fascinating and provocative and exemplifying the best of interdisciplinary legal scholarship. Austin Sarat Amherst College, USA