Marchant Speaks at Summit on Energy Innovation

Center Faculty Director Gary Marchant spoke at the National Governors Association‘s Energy Innovation Summit on October 4, 2017. His talk, Helping the Law Go Where Technology Is Going to Be, discussed how the law can deal with rapidly evolving energy and environmental technologies. When technology moves faster than the law scores of problems can arise, […]

Prof. Gary Marchant Gives Keynote on Technology and Access to the Courts

Center for Law, Science & Innovation Faculty Director Gary Marchant gave the keynote talk at the National Association for Presiding Judges and Court Executives 2017 Annual Leadership Conference in Scottsdale, AZ on September 26, 2017. Professor Marchant’s talk, titled “Using Technology to Improve Access to the Courts,” described various technologies being used to improve access to […]

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 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 speaks about technological innovation in South Korea

LSI GET Program Faculty Director Gary Marchant recently spoke at a conference entitled “Legal Issues and Political Solutions for Establishment of Local Autonomy and Regulatory Reform” held in in Ulsan , South Korea on Feb. 19.   The conference was sponsored by the Korean Local Government Law Association and the Korean Regulatory Law Society.  Marchant spoke […]

Concussion Biomarkers: Scientific and Legal Implications

By Gary E. Marchant Concussions have emerged as a major public health problem. The CDC estimates that over one-and-a-half million American suffer a concussion each year, many in contact sports such as football, hockey and soccer, but also as a result of military combat, domestic abuse, vehicle crashes, falls, and other accidents. Our ability to […]

Wednesday Web Watch for November 5, 2014

George Dvorsky explains How Universal Basic Income Will Save Us From the Robot Uprising in response to predictions that robots, artificial intelligence and other types of technology will eliminate many of the jobs currently held by human beings.  The concept is commonly referred to as “technological unemployment.” In his article, published by io9,  Dvorsky discusses […]