Yvonne Stevens Elected as Chair of SRA Specialty Group

Faculty Fellow Yvonne Stevens has been elected chairperson of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA)’s Risk, Policy and Law Specialty Group. LSI is excited to have one of our own leading the way on law and policy related to risk. Regarding her selection to chair the specialty group, Stevens said: I am honored to have been selected […]

A New Model for Governance of Emerging Technologies

Faculty Director Gary Marchant and Faculty Fellow Yvonne Stevens have published a law review article that proposes a new model for governing emerging technologies that is based on the concept of resilience. Current efforts to govern emerging technologies like synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnology involve a mix of ex ante strategies such as risk […]

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 […]

2015 S.Net Conference — Montreal, Quebec.

The 2015 Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies Conference took place in Montreal, Quebec from October 18-21.  The conference attracted national and international scholars, scientists, engineers, government and other industry leaders interested in the  promotion of responsible awareness, insight, discussion and inquiry of and into the advancement of nanoscience and emerging technologies […]

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 […]

I Love Your Genes!

The article, I Love Your Genes, co-authored by ASU Law Professor Gary Marchant was featured this week in Slate magazine.  The piece looks at recent genetics-based relationship assessment and dating sites and discusses the science & relevance of the growing “spit, seal and mail” phenomenon.   For once it doesn’t matter whether the ones you have […]

The United States Supreme Court Resolves the Gene Patent Controversy (Or Did It?)

A couple of months ago we (Marchant / Stevens) wrote an article on the status of gene patents following the Supreme Court’s June 2013 decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc.  Our paper was recently published by Verlagsgruppe Deutscher Fachverlag, a German establishment which among its specialized publications includes InTeR – Zeitsschrift […]