Marchant Co-authors Noteworthy NAS Report on Human Gene Editing
LSI Faculty Director and Regents’ Professor of Law, Gary Marchant,was one of the co-authors of today’s National Academies of Sciences report on Human Gene Editing. Here is a one paragraph summary of the report: “Genome editing is a powerful new tool for making precise alterations to an organism’s genetic material. Recent scientific advances have […]
Marchant Publishes in Prestigious NAS Journal
Gary E. Marchant, Regents’ Professor of Law | Lincoln Professor of Emerging Technologies, Law & Ethics | Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability | Director of the newly established GET Program, Center for Law, Science and Innovation, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law | all at Arizona State University. ASU law professor Gary E. […]
An Interview With Gary Marchant on Genetics & Courtroom Evidence
Genomics is Changing Causation Evidence in the Courtroom Forever AN INTERVIEW WITH GARY E. MARCHANT, JD, Ph.D. “a worthwhile read for anyone involved in “toxic tort” litigation” − Kirk T. Hartley, JD. Click the link below to access the interview of Gary Marchant, ASU Law Professor and Faculty Director of the Center for Law, Science […]
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 […]
Marchant’s Contribution Featured in TIME Magazine Online
Gary E. Marchant, Faculty Director, Center for Law, Science & Innovation and Professor of Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, recently contributed to the discussion With Great Scientific Power Comes Great Responsibility, published by Zócalo Public Square and TIME online. In his segment, entitled Developing Governance as Innovative as our Science and Technology, Marchant discusses […]
Nanotechnology, Soft Law, Tort Liability and Insurance
By Gary E. Marchant, Ph.D., M.P.P., J.D. Professor of Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University (SDO’CCL – ASU) Faculty Director and Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation (SDO’CCL – ASU) Lincoln Professor of Emerging Technologies, Law and Ethics (ASU) Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability, (ASU) Traditional […]
Tuesday Triple Trivia Tease for March 25, 2014
3 questions. 3 hints. 3 answers. Every Tuesday. 1. What popular expression related to the mind recently made “headlines”? Was it, a) penny for your thoughts, b) put your thinking cap on, or c) get your brain in gear? Hint: Answer: the thinking cap no longer appears to be restricted to the realm of idioms. […]
Publication Notice – Marchant et al.
Use and Misuse of Genetic Information
In a recently published article entitled The Use and Misuse of Genetic Data, ASU law Professor Gary E. Marchant outlines and discusses the most controversial of three identified applications of genetics: those based on pseudoscience. Marchant further pinpoints the five areas prone to misapplication of genetic information as those involving race, crime, behavior, medical and […]
SB 1359: It’s the Law
The fairly new Arizona law prevents the parents of a disabled child (and/or the child) from suing a physician for not disclosing a health defect, as a result of an act or omission, during prenatal care that may otherwise have led to an abortion. The question is, should doctors be protected from such malpractice suits […]