Gary Marchant

Gary Marchant

, ASU Lincoln Professor of Emerging Technologies, Law and Ethics, and Executive Director of the College of Law’s Center for Law, Science & Innovation, recently spoke at a judicial workshop in Cambridge, Maryland.

Marchant delivered the lecture, “Emerging Technologies that will Radically Change your Life, Society, and the Law in the Next Five Years,” on Monday, June 27, at a meeting of judges in the U.S. District Court for the D.C. Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Seventh Circuit.

Marchant’s research interests include the use of genetic information in environmental regulation, risk and the precautionary principle, legal aspects of personalized medicine, and regulation of emerging technologies such as nanotechnology, neuroscience and biotechnology. He teaches courses in Environmental Law, Law, Science & Technology, Genetics and the Law, Biotechnology: Science, Law and Policy, and Nanotechnology Law & Policy. Marchant is a Senior Sustainability Scientist in the ASU Global Institute of Sustainability, Associate Director of the ASU Origins Initiative and a professor in ASU’s School of Life Sciences.