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Center welcomes two stellar new faculty fellows!

The Center for Law, Science & Innovation is thrilled to announce the arrival of two rising young stars to our already formidable cadre of Center Faculty Fellows: Karen Bradshaw Schulz and Troy Rule!  Karen Bradshaw Schulz Newly appointed Associate Professor of Law Karen Bradshaw Shulz joins us from NYU Law, bringing enormous energy to ASU Law and the Center. Her research focuses on governance of natural resources, with an emphasis on emerging regulatory approaches. She is an expert on wildfire law and has also written about land development and forest management. Troy Rule Visiting Professor of Law Troy Rule joins us from the University of Missouri, where he was awarded the Gold Chalk Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2011. His research on property law issues associated with renewable energy has been published in such journals as the UCLA Law Review, Washington University Law Review and University of Illinois Law Review. He teaches Property, Secured Transactions,

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THE WALKING DEAD: Death, Taxes & Zombies – REGISTER NOW FOR THIS “HAnHGHAMZHGaARnARng” (that’s “entertaining” in zombie speak) Event!!!

The NY Times heralds the author of Death and Taxes and Zombies, Adam Chodorow, Professor of Law at ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and a Faculty Fellow of the Center for Law, Science and Innovation, as having performed a valuable scholarly service by embarking on a playful examination of serious tax-code issues from a refreshing perspective. Read the NYT article here. Join Adam Chodorow and Ed Finn, director of the Center for Science and the Imagination, for a screening of The Walking Dead and a conversation about death, taxes and zombies.  Click below for more info.

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ANNALS OF HEALTH LAW – SPECIAL PUBLIC HEALTH LAW EDITION

Professor James Hodge, who heads the Public Health Law and Policy Program at ASU, recently announced that the Special Symposium Edition, Innovations in Public Health Law: Exploring New Strategies, of the Annals of Health Law, is now available online here.  In collaboration with the Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law, this Special Symposium Edition features outstanding scholarship from diverse authors across the field of public health law with a focus on innovative and concrete solutions to significant public health problems.  Here are the authors and links to their articles: Daniel S. Goldberg, Intervening at the Right Point in the Causal Pathways: Law, Policy, and the Devastating Impact of Pain Across the Globe; Lance Gable & Benjamin Mason Meier, Complementarity in Public Health Systems: Using Redundancy as a Tool of Public Health Governance; Clark J. Lee, Patrick P. Rose & Earl Stoddard III, Enhancing Communication Between Scientists, Government Officials, and

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Sparking Controversy: The TTIP and the Precautionary Principle

Wednesday, August 7, 2013 By Yvonne Stevens Four weeks ago in Washington D.C., European Union (EU) and United States (US) representatives began ardent negotiations toward what has been deemed by both sides to be a constructive and beneficial free trade agreement between the EU and the US. Reasons cited for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), as it is called, include significant economic gains by targeting sustained global economic restoration, job generation, competitiveness, and further economic development. Specifically, the TTIP seeks to promote more effective trade, transparency, and rapport by eliminating trade tariffs and reducing costs by harmonizing the standards, rules, and regulations of the two sides. The European Parliament Resolution on EU trade and investment negotiations with the U.S. (text B7-0187/2013), promoting the move toward a more robust integrated transatlantic marketplace, endorsed the measure. However, in what has come to very likely be the most controversial issue (potentially

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