Jurimetrics Banquet Highlights Students and Alumni

Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology recently held its annual banquet at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. The banquet is an opportunity to mingle with current and former Jurimetrics members and to recognize outstanding students and alumni. The editors chose to recognize past Editor-in-Chief Ted Wimsatt with the Outstanding Jurimetrics Alumni […]

See to Antarctica with ASU Law and Thunderbird

What are you doing for New Years Eve 2020? We’ll be in Antarctica. Want to come? Faculty Fellow Diana Bowman, through a partnership with ASU Law and the Thunderbird School of Global Management, invites you on a 10-night expedition to the bottom of the world. This once-in-a-lifetime educational voyage will be lead by world-leading specialists […]

Don’t Miss GETS Early Bird Registration!

Discounted early bird registration for the Seventh Annual Conference on the Governance of Emerging Technologies & Science (GETS) is now open! Register today! This unique and innovative conference addresses the ethical, legal, regulatory, and policy issues that surround the emergence of new technologies and scientific advances. Drawing on the combined expertise of leaders in academia, industry, and […]

Blockchain Speaker Series: Healthcare Applications

Providing healthcare services reliably and effectively requires a lot of information about patients. This especially so in the age of personalized medicine. Managing, sharing, and accessing medical records is a often a headache for healthcare providers. Blockchain technology may provide an answer. Hear from experts on the promise and challenges of incorporating blockchain in healthcare settings. […]

DevilDocs Takes Round One of Hackathon at ASU Law

The Center for Law, Science and Innovation hosted the 2019 Global Legal Hackathon at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law on February 22-24. The event attracted law students, local attorneys, computer science students, coders, and other members of the community. These participants spent a weekend planing, designing, and coding tech solutions for the legal […]

Marchant on Soft Law and Artificial Intelligence

Faculty Director Gary Marchant recently wrote on approaches to the governance of artificial intelligence (AI) for UCLA School of Law’s new AI Pulse project. Marchant’s article, “Soft Law” Governance of Artificial Intelligence, takes a look at calls for traditional governmental regulation of AI, and where such an approach is unsuitable for AI technology and development. Marchant instead proposes […]

Blockchain in Smart Contracts, Real Estate, and Supply Chain

LSI is continuing our 2019 Blockchain Speaker Series this Wednesday (2/20)! The speaker series hones in on promising and controversial applications for blockchain technology. Energy policy, healthcare, smart contracts, and your very identity are set to be revolutionized by this technology. This upcoming session will focus on blockchain applications in Smart Contracts, Real Estate, and Supply Chains. The event […]

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. […]

Faculty Fellow Andrew Maynard Talks Sci-Fi with SETI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSsJsZ-7XRg&t=0s&index=2&list=PLHycHI5gi3giEgPKzZRm37_cQT7xdoiZU Faculty Fellow Andrew Maynard, who just published Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies, grabbed some popcorn to chat sci-fi and emerging technology with the SETI Institute’s Big Picture Science podcast. Maynard’s new book uses popular movies – like Jurassic Park, Minority Report, Ex Machina, and more – to explore emerging technologies and ethical issues […]

Diana Bowman Co-authors Study on Intersection Safety

Faculty Fellow Diana Bowman co-authored a recently published study on the impact of intersection design on driver safety. The study, Evaluation of alternative intersection treatments at rural crossroads using simulation software, was published in Traffic Injury Prevention. The study used crash simulations to look at the effect of different intersection layouts, technologies, and traffic policies on rural roads. […]