May 16-17, 2024 GETS Schedule
Beus Center for Law and Society
Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
111 E. Taylor Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004
Day 1: Thursday, May 16
8:00-8:30 a.m.
Breakfast (W. P. Carey Armstrong Foundation Great Hall)
8:30-8:45 a.m.
Welcome and logistics
Gary Marchant, Regents Professor
Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
8:45-10:15 a.m.
Plenary Session 1: Quantum Governance (W. P. Carey Armstrong Foundation Great Hall)
Moderator: Diana Bowman, Andrew Carnegie Fellow & Professor of Law, Associate Dean, Applied Research and Partnerships, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Panelists:
Susanne Lloyd-Jones, UNSW Allens Hub for Technology, Law & Innovation
Kaniah Konkoly-Thege, Quantinuum
Jeffery Atik, Professor of Law, Loyola Law School (LA)
Torey Battelle, Quantum Collaborative, Arizona State University
Aubrey Davis, Director, Law and Emerging Technology, U.S Air Force Academy; The Future of Judicial Review: The Major Questions Doctrine, the Political Question Doctrine, and Emerging Technology
10:15-10:45 a.m.
Coffee break (W. P. Carey Armstrong Foundation Great Hall)
10:45 a.m. -12:15 p.m.
Concurrent Session #1
- Law and AI
- Democracy and Emerging Technology
- Health Technologies
- AI Governance
- Identity and Privacy
Concurrent Session 1.1: Law and AI (room 150)
Justin (Gus) Hurwitz, Senior Fellow, Penn Carey Law School; Director of Law and Economics Programs, International Center for Law and Economics; Pigou’s Plumber or Regulation as a Discovery Process
Kenneth Anderson, Washington College of Law, American University; Emerging Regulation of Emerging Technologies Such as AI, In an Era of Challenges to the Chevron Doctrine
Amir Dezfuli, Sierra Club; Standing In
Alexander Gilman, Gilman Law Offices; The Real (Estate) Impacts of AI: The Uses and Risks of AI in Real Property Practice
Concurrent Session 1.2: Democracy and Emerging Technology (room 240)
Simren Flora, Head of Risk and Compliance GEO, Google; AI Impact on Innovation in Tech
Sharon Bassan, Kline School of Law, Drexel University and International Research Fellow at the Information Society Law Center, University of Milan; Algorithmic Personalization Features and Democratic Values
Julian Dreiman, Accenture Labs; Geoengineering and Playing God: Three Strategies for Governing Geoengineering Technology
Primrose Dzenga, College of Global Futures, Arizona State University; The New Space Race and Anticipatory Governance: Who Has Jurisdiction Over Companies Registered in Space
Concurrent Session 1.3: Health Technologies (room 250)
Rachel Gur-Arie, PhD, MS, Assistant Professor, Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University; Characterizing Healthcare Provider Experiences with Implementing Genomic Medicine in a Federally Qualified Health Center
Dr. Sara Golru, Medical Lawyer, HWL Ebsworth Lawyers; Sessional Academic, Sydney Law School; Judging the Genome: The Emerging Role of Genetic Evidence in Civil Litigation
Susan Curtis, Research Coordinator, Biomedical Ethics Research Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Listening to Nurses on use of Digital Technologies to Monitor and Track Burnout
Joel E Pacyna and Richard Sharp, Biomedical Ethics Research Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Patient Perspectives on Ubiquitous Voice Analysis in Healthcare
Concurrent Session 1.4: AI Governance (room 442)
Dr. Cari Miller, Founder, Center for Inclusive Change; Chair, AI Procurement Lab; Don’t Let the Bad Stuff In: Using Procurement as a Governance Tool
Gary Myers, Earl F. Nelson Professor of Law, University of Missouri School of Law; Regulating AI -Market and Regulatory Approaches
Toby Shulruff, PhD student, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University; AI and Human Labor in Content Moderation and Trust & Safety
Michael P Goodyear, Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering, NYU School of Law; Infringing Information Architectures
Concurrent Session 1.5: Identity and Privacy (room 450)
Yafit Lev-Artz, Assistant Professor of Law, Baruch College, City University of NY; Privacy Notice and The Blame Game
Brooke Norton, JD candidate, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University; Navigating the Legal Framework: Implementing a Government-Backed Digital Identity in the United States
Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, American Civil Liberties Union; Digital Identity’s Constitutional Moment and Constraining the Coming Explosion in Police Use of Drones
Jay Carpenter, Founder, Desert Blockchain LLC, Decentralized Dispute Resolution and Web3
12:15-1:00 p.m.
Lunch (W. P. Carey Armstrong Foundation Great Hall)
1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
Plenary Session 2: AI and the Life Sciences: Evaluating Opportunities and Risks (W. P. Carey Armstrong Foundation Great Hall)
Moderator: Gary Marchant, Regents and Foundation Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Center for Law, Science and Innovation, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Panelists:
Sarah R. Carter, Science Policy Consulting LLC
Claudia I. Emerson, Philosophy, McMaster University
Vikram Venkatram, Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET); Policy Implications of Artificial Intelligence Impacting the Biological Sciences
George Poste, ASU Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative
2:30-2:50 p.m.
Coffee break (W. P. Carey Armstrong Foundation Great Hall)
2:50-4:20 p.m.
Concurrent Session #2
- Quantum, A.I, Security
- Innovation and A.I
- AI Governance II
- AI and Ethics
- Genomics
- Genetics and Social Trait
Concurrent Session 2.1: Quantum, AI, Security (room 150)
Susanne Lloyd-Jones and Kayleen Manwaring, University of New South Wales, Law and Innovation; Towards Quantum Resilience in an Unsecure World
Sarah Wilson, PhD candidate, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS); Looking for the Laws of Quantum Mechanics in the Law: Legal & Regulatory Responses to Quantum Dots
Moritz Von Knebel, Project Manager (FAR AI); Referent Objects and Securitizing Actors – Will Nationalizing A.I Development Make Us Safer? Evidence from the US, the UK and China
Concurrent Session 2.2: Innovation and AI (room 240)
Paul Coble, Chair of Intellectual Property, Rose Law Group; Copyright in the Age of Generative AI
Gad Weiss, JSD candidate, Columbia Law School; A Theory of Seed Financing
Tyson Winarski, Patent Attorney and Professor, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University; Tsunami of Blockchain Patents
Amanda Levendowski, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown Law; Fairer Use
Concurrent Session 2.3: AI Governance II (room 250)
Emily LaRosa, PhD student, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University; Creating Justifiable Systems: A Call for Iterative Regulation of Artificial Intelligence
Brad Allenby, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University; Managing AI
Jasmine Held-Hernandez, JD candidate, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University; The United States’ and International Standard’s AV Governance Landscape, Gaps, and Recommendations
Ryan Johnson, Chief Privacy Officer, Savvas Learning Company LLC; AI Policy and Governance Establishing Compliance Frameworks within Corporate and Educational Institutions
Concurrent Session 2.4: AI and Ethics (room 442)
Qin (Sky) Ma, Global Fellow, NYU School of Law; Digital Transformation in the Judiciary: Unveiling Challenges and Solutions Through Infrastructure Thinking and Systems Theory
Robert Copple, Copple and Associates; Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and the Legal Regulators
Hayden Myers, Arizona Assistant Attorney General; The Intersection of Natural Law and AI in American Jurisprudence
Joseph Tiano, Legal Decoder; A.I. and Legal Ethics
Concurrent Session 2.5: Genomics (room 450)
Peter Munyi, Honorary Research Fellow, School of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal; Complementarity in providing for enabling regimes for sequencing human and pathogen genomes in Africa
Amanda Courtright-Lim, Senior Program Coordinator, Mayo Clinic; Assessing Ethical Implication and Access Barriers in Gene Editing Therapeutics
Khara Grieger, Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University; Opportunities for Bi-Directional Learning Across Two Emerging Technologies: A Comparative Analysis of Gene Drives and Solar Geoengineering
Nertila Kuraj, University of Oslo/UC Berkeley Law; Biotechnology Laws Fifty Years Later
Concurrent Session 2.6: Genetics and Social Traits (room 243)
Karen Meagher and Sara Watson, Mayo Clinic, and Shawneequa Callier, George Washington University; Anticipatory Governance and Sociogenomics Ethical Legal and Social Implications of Polygenic Scores
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Plenary Session 3: Using Soft Law for Technology Governance: Opportunities and Risks (W. P. Carey Armstrong Foundation Great Hall)
Moderator: Justin A. Connor, Executive Director, The Center for Industry Self-Regulation, BBB National Programs
Panelists:
Adam Thierer, R Street Institute
Chris Meserole, Frontier Model Forum
Lucille Nalbach Tournas, Board Member Institute of Neuroethics, ASU School of Life Sciences
Trooper Sanders, Benefits Data Trust
Gary Marchant, Regents and Foundation Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Center for Law, Science and Innovation, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
GETS Reception and Student Poster Session (room 544)
Day 2: Friday, May 17
7:45-8:20 a.m.
Breakfast (W. P. Carey Armstrong Foundation Great Hall)
8:20-8:30 a.m.
Welcome Remarks from Dean Stacy Leeds, William H. Pedrick Dean
(W. P. Carey Armstrong Foundation Great Hall)
8:30-10:00 a.m.
Plenary Session 4: Big Data and Armed Conflict (W. P. Carey Armstrong Foundation Great Hall)
Moderator: Laura Dickinson, George Washington University Law School
Panelists:
Gary Corn, American University Washington College of Law
Galit Sarfaty, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Asaf Lubin, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University Bloomington
Brad Allenby, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University
10:00-10:30 a.m.
Coffee break (W. P. Carey Armstrong Foundation Great Hall)
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Concurrent Session #3
- Generative AI
- Autonomous Vehicles
- Regulating Health Technology
- Technology and Criminal Justice
- Neurotech and Aging
Concurrent Session 3.1: Generative AI (room 150)
Nizan Geslevich Packin, Professor of Law, Baruch College, City University of New York; Regulating Technologies that Scare Us: Blocking Generative AI
Ali Ekber Cinar, Doctoral student, McGill University Faculty of Law; The Language of the Law vs. the Language of the Computer
Ashraful Goni, Doctoral candidate, College of Media and Communication, Texas Tech University; Ethical Challenges of Using Generative AI for Diasporic Media: A Case Study on the Bangladeshi Ethnic Media in the New York City
Kedhar Sankararaman, JD candidate, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University; Informing the FDA’s SaMD Approval Process through Three Case Studies: Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union
Concurrent Session 3.2: Autonomous Vehicles (room 240)
Jasmine Held-Hernandez, JD candidate, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University; The United States’ and International Standard’s AV Governance Landscape, Gaps, and Recommendations
Soumita Mukherjee, PhD candidate, College of Information Science and Technology, Pennsylvania State University; Ethics of Human-in-the-Loop: Examination of Vulnerability in Case of Human Drivers in Autonomous Vehicles
Tracy Hresko Pearl, William J. Alley Professor of Law, University of Oklahoma; Cooperative Control: Autonomous Vehicles, Safety, and Soft Law Regulatory Regime
Concurrent Session 3.3: Regulating Health Technology (room 250)
Dusko Milojevic, Doctoral Researcher at KU Leuven, Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Legal Challenges in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) in the EU
Max Mashal, JD candidate, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University;
Updating US Medical Code to Address AI Integration Into the Healthcare Industry
Richard Williams, Board Chair, Center for Truth in Science; Twenty First Century Revolution in Food Production and Consumption
Patricia Velarde Burnett, Weiss Brown, and Gary Marchant, Arizona State University; Blockchain & Healthcare: The Second Wave
Concurrent Session 3.4: Technology and Criminal Justice (room 442)
Trason Lasley, JD candidate, J. Reuben Clark Law School; Forensic Microbiome Evidence: Fourth Amendment Applications and Court Acceptance
Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, American Civil Liberties Union; Digital Identity’s Constitutional Moment and Constraining the Coming Explosion in Police Use of Drones
Vladimir Troitsky, Senior Partner, Lex International Law Firm; A.I Big Data and Positivist Criminology The Evolution of Technology and Predictive Punishment
Concurrent Session 3.5: Neurotech and Aging (room 450)
William Dawley, Postdoctoral Researcher, Human Futures project – University of Bergen (Norway) and Harvard University; The Ethnography of Amortal Futures: Counterintuitive Findings from Ethnographic and Survey Data on Cryonics and Anti-Aging
Alberto Aparicio, University of Texas Medical Branch; They Want to Live Forever Private Investors and the Making of a Life Extension Revolution in Biomedicine
Angelina Manion, JD candidate, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University; The United States’ and International Standard’s Mental Health App Governance Landscape, Gaps, and Recommendations
Oluyinka Oyeniji, Researcher, De Montfort University, Leicester UK; Challenges of Advancing Neuroscience Research with Neurotechnologies in Africa
12:00-12:45 p.m.
Lunch (W. P. Carey Armstrong Foundation Great Hall)
12:45-2:15 p.m.
Plenary Session 5: Towards Equitable Innovation: Ethics, Access, and Governance in Healthcare (W. P. Carey Armstrong Foundation Great Hall)
Moderator: Jon Tilburt, Medicine and Biomedical Ethics, Mayo Clinic Arizona
Panelists:
Rachel Gur-Arie, PhD, MS, Assistant Professor, Edson College of Nursing, Arizona State University; Characterizing Healthcare Provider Experiences with Implementing Genomic Medicine in a Federally Qualified Health Center
Craig Norquist, Chief Medical Information Officer, Honor Health
Rebecca Tsosie, James E. Rogers College of Law, The University of Arizona
Aric Bopp, Mayo Clinic
Karen Meagher, Mayo Clinic
2:15-2:30 p.m.
Coffee break (W. P. Carey Armstrong Foundation Great Hall)
2:30-4:00 p.m.
Concurrent Session #4
- Corporate Governance and Technology
- Trust and Bias
- Future Tech
- Data Governance
Concurrent Session 4.1: Corporate Governance and Technology (room 240)
Paul Flanagan, Associate Professor of Law, Drexel Law School; Taming the AI and Privacy Dragon
Larry D. Foster, Professor, Prairie View A&M University; Sam Altman Open AI and The Importance of Corporate Governance
Vanessa Villanueva Collao, Max Weber Fellow in Law, European University Institute of Fiesole (Italy); Cryptogatekeepers in Decentralized Finance Conflicts of Interest and Prospective Solutions
Dr. Alexandra Andhov, Associate Professor and Director of Copenhagen Legal/Tech Lab, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Rethinking Corporate Governance of Big Tech: Lessons from Governance of Financial Institutions
Concurrent Session 4.2: Trust and Bias (room 250)
Caity Roe and Lenoa Williamson, Ph.D. students, Arizona State University; Advancing the Space 4.0 Era A Policy Oriented Jurisprudence Approach to Trust Mechanisms
Lirong Shi, Research Associate (Postdoctoral), University of Michigan; A New Testing Scheme for Mitigating Bias in Training Data of Autonomous Vehicles
Lyria Bennett Moses, Director, UNSW Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation; Professor and Associate Dean (Research) UNSW Law and Justice; Discrimination and Artificial Intelligence
Concurrent Session 4.3: Future Tech (room 442)
Brad Allenby, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University; AGI and the Obsolescence of Human Cognition
Aubrey Davis, Director, Law and Emerging Technology, U.S Air Force Academy; The Future of Judicial Review: The Major Questions Doctrine, the Political Question Doctrine, and Emerging Technology
Yasmin Afshar, PhD student, Research Associate, Center for Energy and Society, Arizona State University, Future of Electric Vehicles Infrastructure Deployment in Phoenix Metropolitan Area
Michelle Olson, Lambert by LLYC and Gary Marchant, Arizona State University; Advanced Air Mobility
Concurrent Session 4.4: Data Governance (room 450)
Traci Morris, Executive Director and Research Professor, American Indian Policy Institute, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University; Tribal Digital Sovereignty
Emmi Bane, Hewlett Packard, and Toby Shulruff, Arizona State University; Consent, Community Engagement, and the Social Governance of Emerging Technologies; Consent, Community Engagement, and the Social Governance of Emerging Technologies
Trent Kannegieter, Chief of Staff, Platform Division at Blue Rive Technology; Building Globally Inclusive Datasets: A Diplomatic Opportunity for the International Community
4:00-6:00 p.m.
