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Marchant Publishes in Prestigious NAS Journal

Gary Marchant

Gary E. Marchant, Regents’ Professor of Law | Lincoln Professor of Emerging Technologies, Law & Ethics | Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability | Director of the newly established GET Program, Center for Law, Science and Innovation, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law | all at Arizona State University.

 ASU law professor Gary E. Marchant, recently co-published an article in the National Academy of SciencesISSUES in Science and Technology journal.  The piece is entitled Coordinating Technology Governance and it explores the need for, and application of, a nimble authoritative coordinating body, referred to as a Governance Coordination Committee, to fill an urgent gap with regard to the assessment of the ethical, legal, social and economic consequences of emerging technologies.  This newly created entity, with broad functions that are detailed in the paper, would manage issues unique to nascent technologies.  It would “act like an orchestra conductor,”  focusing on the harmonization and integration of the various realized or proposed governance approaches and flag those that should be abolished or amended due to their present-day impracticality and inefficiency.  The article explores not only the need for such a governing body but also looks at other precedent-setters, proposes what an effective program should look like and addresses its potential challenges and concerns.  The essay is co-authored by Wendell Wallach, a prominent consultant, ethicist, and scholar at the Yale University Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics.  Wallach has several additional professional affiliations including the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics (ASU).