Bowman Publishes Book Chapter on Nano, Food Science & Oversight

Prof. Diana Bowman LSI Faculty Fellow Diana Bowman recently co-authored a chapter titled Ensuring Food Safety: General Principles for Safeguarding What You Eat Including the Role of Food Labels in Emerging Nanotechnologies in Food Science Among other things, the chapter discusses food safety, health and financial implications of food-related incidents and the challenges facing regulators, […]

LSI’s Marchant & Stevens Publish in Personalized Medicine

LSI Faculty Director Gary Marchant, Faculty Fellow Yvonne Stevens and physician Grant Senner recently published an article discussing physicians’ duty to recontact patients with updated genetic information and impacts with the Future Science Group. To view the article, click on the link below and register on the Future Medicine website (or log in, if you […]

Marchant Quoted in ABA Journal Article

A hand or hands gripping a steering wheel will soon be a thing of the past.  Safer, automated technology is forging ahead very quickly, turning human drivers into carefree, unanswerable passengers.  No more worries about which driver is at fault. Right? Or is attaching liability more complex now? Recall the driver that was killed in […]

5th Annual Governance of Emerging Technologies Conference: Part 5

What follows is Part 5 of a series of select summaries of conference presentations, each prepared by 2L Jesse James, given at LSI‘s Fifth Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies: Law, Policy and Ethics, held at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Beus Center for Law & Society, Phoenix, AZ on May 17-19, […]

5th Annual Governance of Emerging Technologies Conference: Part 4

What follows is Part 4 of a series of select summaries of conference presentations, each prepared by 2L Jesse James, given at LSI‘s Fifth Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies: Law, Policy and Ethics, held at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Beus Center for Law & Society, Phoenix, AZ on May 17-19, […]

The Scientist: Marchant Quoted in Response to First Study Evaluating Genetic Sequencing for Healthy Individuals

For the first time, a randomized trial was conducted to evaluate how the use of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) in asymptomatic adults affects clinical care and patient outcomes.  The study was published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine and funded by the National Institutes of Health. Researchers found that WGS did reveal new molecular findings, and that many providers could […]

5th Annual Governance of Emerging Technologies Conference: Part 3

What follows is Part 3 of a series of select summaries of conference presentations, each prepared by 2L Jesse James, at LSI‘s Fifth Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies: Law, Policy and Ethics, held at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Beus Center for Law & Society in Phoenix, AZ on May 17-19, 2017. Day […]

5th Annual Governance of Emerging Technologies Conference: Part 2

What follows is Part 2 of a series of select summaries of conference presentations, each prepared by 2L Jesse James, at LSI‘s Fifth Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies: Law, Policy and Ethics, held at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Beus Center for Law & Society in Phoenix, AZ on May 17-19, 2017. Day […]

5th Annual Governance of Emerging Technologies Conference: Part 1

LSI‘s Fifth Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies: Law, Policy and Ethics was held at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Beus Center for Law & Society in Phoenix, AZ on May 17-19, 2017.  What follows is a periodic series of summaries from the various conference keynote and plenary sessions, prepared by rising 2L student, […]

Second Annual Healthspan Extension Policy and Regulation Workshop

By Gary E. Marchant The Center for Law, Science & Innovation convened its Second Annual Workshop on Healthspan Extension Policy and Regulation in Scottsdale Arizona on May 5, 2017. This invitation-only event was attended by approximately 30 experts in science, medicine, public policy, regulation, law and ethics. The purpose of this annual workshop series is […]