Public Briefing: Technologies for Improving Fuel Economy of Light-Duty Vehicles
Faculty Director Gary Marchant will be leading the public briefing on Technologies for Improving Fuel Economy of Light-Duty Vehicles today on Wednesday, March 31, 2021. Marchant is the chair for the report being presented at the briefing session, and will discuss the key findings and recommendations from the report at 3:30-4:30pm ET. The National Academies […]
Marchant Scheduled to Speak on Epigenetics & Environmental Justice
Faculty Director Gary Marchant will be giving a lecture on “Epigenetics & Environmental Justice: How Our Lived Environment Affects Our Future Health and the Health of Our Children” The lecture will take place on Friday, March 19, 2021 at 12PM CT. Marchant’s lecture will be the sixth lecture in the year-long series “The Social Impacts […]
Symposium Issues: Energy, Water, Food, and Climate Change
Policy and governance issues in energy, water, and food can all be deeply complex individually. In the age of climate change, these areas are not separate. Instead they sit at a nexus. Actions in one inevitably result in trade offs elsewhere. However, the law and governing agencies tend to be siloed, separated by jurisdictional boundaries. […]
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June 22, 2016 In an opinion piece titled Disruption or Dispalcement? authors David Beier, Jonathan Krause and Andrew Sullivan consider a centuries-old concern — the fear of technological unemployment — and highlight that future implications of technology on jobs should be considered today. The authors’ specific focus is on the effects on employment through AI, […]
ASU College of Law – LSI Community Board Meeting Update
Left to right: Deb Pogson, Diana Bowman, Lauren Burkhart, SDOC College of Law Dean, Doug Sylvester Spring 2016 LSI Community Board Meeting & Reception The Center hosted its spring Community Board meeting and reception on April 19, 2016 at the University Club on the ASU Tempe campus. Center Director Lauren Burkhart welcomed attendees and congratulated […]
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April 13, 2016 In What Every Journalist Should Know About Science, Paul Raeburn discusses the difficulties experienced in accurate science-focused reporting — not just by lay journalists but also science journalists themselves. With so many scientific developments occurring within a vast array of topics, one of the biggest challenges faced is “[e]valuating and interpreting complex […]
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March 30, 2016 Pete Flint puts a very positive spin on the future in his piece titled 34 Remarkable and Surprising Things About the Future. Despite recognizing certain challenges, Flint optimistically embraces and highlights the areas where technological progress, stemming from the cycle of innovation, will have its greatest impact, including medicine, education, AI and […]
Introducing: Center for Law, Science & Innovation Executive Council
The Executive Council (EC-LSI) of the Center for Law, Science & Innovation (LSI) at ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, is comprised of a group of prominent and committed individuals who are vested in the present and future success of LSI, with regard to its notable academic leadership, scholarship, multifaceted expertise, international recognition, community […]
Center Faculty Fellow Dan Bodansky Quoted on Climate
At climate talks in Bonn in June 2015, Bodansky said: “The issue, ultimately, is how can the agreement [The Paris Climate Agreement] be most effective in reducing emissions…[That’s] a function of how ambitious the agreement is, how many and which countries participate and a function of compliance…If there’s greater compliance at the cost of lower […]
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In her piece Science Doesn’t Find Truth, it Understands Change, Lori Chandler highlights the perception that science continually changes, which then leads to a general mistrust of ever-changing scientific hypotheses and conclusions. However, as Chandler points out, it is not science per se that changes, rather, it is our understanding of it that is modified. […]