ROUNDTABLE WORKSHOP: GMOs

On January 14, 2015, ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and the Center for Law, Science & Innovation hosted the nation’s brightest scientists, lawyers, academics, journalists and regulators to meet and discuss strategic reform of the U.S. regulatory system, public perception, scientific communication and development barriers affecting genetically modified plant and animal organisms (GMOs).   […]

Marchant Presents at Society for Risk Analysis

Gary E. Marchant ASU Law Professor Gary Marchant gave two presentations at the annual meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) in Denver on Dec. 8 and 9.  Marchant’s first presentation, entitled “Nanotechnology: From Harmful to Helpful?,” examined the possible role of hormesis in the toxicology of nanomaterials, and the risk management implications of […]

Center for Law, Science & Innovation – Fall 2014 Alumni Reception

Alumni, current students, distinguished faculty and community leaders & supporters came together last Friday, November 7, 2014 on the  Garden Terrace @ the Hyatt Regency Phoenix to celebrate, among other things, the preeminent Center for Law, Science & Innovation‘s 30th birthday and its noteworthy growth & contributions throughout the years.  Other highlights included an update […]

2014 EBOLA OUTBREAK: Issues of Law, Policy and Ethics

SPECIAL PRESENTATION: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2014, 12:15-1:15PM. ARMSTRONG HALL | GREAT HALL SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR COLLEGE OF LAW ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY – TEMPE CAMPUS FEATURING: JAMES G. HODGE, JR., J.D., L.L.M. (ASSOCIATE DEAN AND PROFESSOR OF LAW, SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR COLLEGE OF LAW) AND DAVID H. BEYDA, M.D., (CHAIR AND PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF BIOETHICS AND […]

I Love Your Genes!

The article, I Love Your Genes, co-authored by ASU Law Professor Gary Marchant was featured this week in Slate magazine.  The piece looks at recent genetics-based relationship assessment and dating sites and discusses the science & relevance of the growing “spit, seal and mail” phenomenon.   For once it doesn’t matter whether the ones you have […]

Marchant co-authors article in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology

  Gary Marchant An article, co-authored by Regents’ Professor Gary Marchant, Faculty Director of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law‘s Center for Law, Science & Innovation, was featured in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News. Marchant co-authored the article with Rachel Lindor, M.D., J.D., a resident at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. The article titled, […]

Technology and Health Care Economics: an Opportunity for the Practicing Physician

An article, written by Professor Gary Marchant and Dr. Arnold Calica, was published in AZ  MEDICINE magazine this summer.  The article, entitled TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH CARE ECONOMICS: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE PRACTICING PHYSICIAN is available here: AzMed_Sum2014_Calica-Marchant-1. The idea for this article is derived, in part, from a conference entitled, Technology and the Rising Cost of […]