‘The machine runs itself’: law is technology and Australian embryo and human cloning law

Technology law scholarship has a tendency towards the dramatic. causes disruption. Law must catch-up; it ensure potential benefits from technology and avoid harms. There are even concerns that law, as an organiser of human life, is itself becoming eclipsed by forms technological management. What often not focused on practical process through which about become transmuted into legal within specific jurisdictions. This paper examines 23 years Australian concerning embryos cloning. Inspired Carl Schmitt’s criticism modernity’s political institutions laws they produce, what identified machine runs itself. It shown to be highly automated whereby technical experts manage competing values. Rather than regulating or law; study suggests its making, technological.