LSI at the Cutting Edge of Silicon Valley’s Quest
If a scorched cactus can live to 300, why not a human being? (Yvonne Stevens) On May 5, 2017, LSI will host its second healthy lifespan extension workshop. Whatever one chooses to call it, age delay, anti-aging or life extension, the idea is the same: those supporting it wish to curb the inevitability of aging […]
March 2017 Starbucks Challenge
March 2017 Starbucks Challenge During the semester we feature a technology with potential legal, social and/or ethical implications and ask: What’s YOUR answer? One $25 Starbucks gift card awarded per challenge based on what we feel is the most judicious response to the highlighted technology, below. Deadline to be eligible for this month’s Starbucks gift […]
2017 Jurimetrics Banquet — ASU Law
Jurimetrics—The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology is the journal of the American Bar Association Section of Science & Technology Law and the Center for Law, Science & Innovation (LSI). Jurimetrics is a forum for the publication and exchange of ideas and information about the relationships between law, science, and technology. Jurimetrics was first published in 1959. […]
Gary Marchant on Stage – The Brain , Genetics & Crime 03/27/17
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March 23, 2017 Calm down. It’s not Armageddon according to the optimists, writes Sarah Kessler, when discussing the future of human employment. We’ve been here before, she says, and runs through classic examples of situations that provoked needless fears of an apocalyptic machine conquest. In fact, historically, those worrisome machines created more jobs albeit different […]
ASU’s LSI on Channel 3: Privacy & Cybersecurity
March 19, 2017 An insightful interview on Channel 3′s Politics Unplugged on March 19, 2017, featuring LSI‘s Gary Marchant, K Royal and Caroline Lynch on privacy and cybersecurity. President Trump’s wiretapping allegations set the stage for a sharp discussion about public and private security in a digitally-dependent world.
Event: Unlocking the Privacy-Security Debate, March 20, 2017
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March 9, 2017 Take your victim as you find him (or her) is a well-established legal principle that, over the years, has grown in its application to include previously unidentifiable components. More and more, cases are litigated involving an injury manifested from an external element’s impact on DNA, or from DNA’s reaction to an external […]
Marchant & Allenby on International Regulatory Harmonization
LSI Faculty Director, Gary Marchant, and LSI Faculty Fellow, Brad Allenby, focus on tools & reasons for international regulatory harmonization of emerging technologies in their recently published article Soft law: New tools for governing emerging technologies.
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February 28, 2017 Precisely two weeks ago the NAS released a report on committee recommendations regarding human gene editing, which we highlighted here. The report was big news internationally and also for us, not only in terms how far science has progressed but because LSI Faculty Director, Gary Marchant is a member of that particular […]