A study of the existing and future research on the intersections between law and materiality, leading to the illumination of both. A theoretically innovative book exploring the intersections between law and materialityOffers new perspectives on a variety of high profile controversial subjects, including climate change, public health, genetics, crime, biomedical technologyInvestigates the futures of both the sociology of law and the study of science and technology from a novel, interdisciplinary vantage pointIllustrates a wide range of empirical topics to provide a focus for critical reflection on the nature of cross-disciplinary researchIlluminates relationships between transnational regulation and local practices and the relation between social agency and material worlds