2025 conference schedule
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Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Beus Center for Law and Society
2026 conference schedule
May 21 - 22, 2026
Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Beus Center for Law and Society
Day 1 | Thursday, May 21
8 - 8:30 a.m.
Breakfast
Great Hall (2nd Floor)
8:30 - 8:45 a.m.
Welcome and logistics
Great Hall
- Stacy Leeds – Willard H. Pedrick Dean, Regents and Foundation Professor of Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
- Gary Marchant – Faculty Director, Center for Law, Science and Innovation, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
8:45 - 10:15 a.m.
Plenary Session – Public Trust and Dialogue in Health Care
Great Hall
- Moderator:
- Amanda Courtright-Lim – Senior Program Coordinator, Biomedical Ethics Research Program, Mayo Clinic
- Panelists:
- George Poste, PhD – Chief Scientist & Regents Professor, Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative, ASU
- Dave Engelthaler, PhD – Executive Director, Health Observatory, ASU
- Stephanie Carroll, DrPH, MPH – Associate Research Professor, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona
- Rachel Gur-Arie, PhD – Assistant Professor, Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation, ASU
- Frank X. Curci, JD – Partner, Buchalter, LLP
10:15 - 10:30 a.m.
Break
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Concurrent Session 1
Session 1.1 – Panel: The Governance of Human in the AI loop
Room 150
- Frank Giaoui – Owner and CEO at Optimalex
- Gary Marchant – Regents’ Professor, Clarissa Cerda Professor of Law & Technology, Faculty Director, Center for Law, Science & Innovation, ASU
- Kedhar Sankararaman – Policy Associate, Association for Competitive Technology (ACT)
- Karen Meza Villegas – 3L, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, ASU
- Jeffrey Wishart – Research Assistant Professor, ENGR School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, ASU
Session 1.2 – Panel: Chatbots for Student Mental Health: Clinical Risks, Real-World Use, and a Campus Governance Minimum Safety Standard
Room 240
- Moderator:
- Daniel Drane – Executive Director Wolin Center for Intelectual Property and the Center for Law, Science and Innovation, ASU
- Panelists:
- Elizabeth Leonard, PhD – Neurocognitive Associates, Faculty Fellow Center for Law, Science & Innovation, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
- Daniel Takla, MD – Department of Psychiatry Creighton University School of Medicine and Valleywise Health
- Barnaby Wasson, WassonPro Consulting
Session 1.3 – AI and Personal Rights
Room 250
- Aligning Artificial Intelligence to Civil Rights
- Christopher Muhawe – Assistant Professor of Law, University of Illinois Chicago School of Law
- Parenting the Machine and Raising Our Robotic Offspring
- Helen A.F. Gould – Intel (Retired), Founder & Principal, Tech Strategizers LLC
- Reanchoring the Law to the Human Baseline in the AI Age
- Jim Ko – Principal Attorney, Ko IP & AI Law PLLC; Adjunct Professor, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law; Executive Director, The AI Rights Project
- The Inconsentability of Deepfakes
- Katrina Geddes – Assistant Professor of Law, The Ohio State University
Session 1.4 – Future Projections
Room 442
- The Last Leviathans: How Government Functions in a High Automation World
- Mattias Lederer – Student, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
- Reassessing the Pacing Problem: Is Law Truly Unable to Keep Up with Technology?
- Ali Ekber Cinar – McGill University
- Back to the Future
- Robert A. Bohrer – Emeritus Professor of Law, California Western School of Law
- Transforming Urban Landscapes: The Role of AI in Smart Cities and Smart Places
- Mark Goldstein – President, International Research Center
Session 1.5 – Health Technologies and Education
Room 450
- Governing Synthetic Biology and Biomanufacturing: Assessing Gaps in International Regulatory Approaches
- Karolina Zhukoff – Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Margaret E. Kosal – Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
- How Precision Health Will Affect Regulatory and Legal Policies
- Richard Williams – Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment
- Clinical Judgment in the Age of Algorithms: Ethical and Regulatory Limits on Physician Use of Artificial Intelligence in Diagnosis and Treatment
- Janice Suchyta – Partner, Buchalter, LLP
- Lived Experiences with Specific Learning Disabilities/Difficulties Shapes Perspectives on Polygenic Risk Test Application in Educational Contexts
- Amanda Courtright-Lim, PhD – Mayo Clinic
12 - 1 p.m.
Lunch
Room 544
1 - 2:30 p.m.
Concurrent Session 2
Session 2.1 – Panel: AI Governance and Technology Risk Management
Room 150
- Daniel Pietragallo – Special Counsel at Buchalter, LLP
- Jonathon Talcott – Parter at Buchalter, LLP
- Roy Hadley – Of Counsel at Buchalter, LLP
Session 2.2 – Neurotechnology and Regulation
Room 240
- Are Global Rules for Neurotechnology Already Fragmenting?
- Walter G. Johnson – Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Law School
- Beyond Sensitivity and Primary Rights: Governing Neurodata Through Secondary Law and Psychological Invasiveness
- Jianing Lu – JSD Student, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, College of Law
- Prospect, Progress and Problems of Advancing Neuroscience Research with Neurotechnologies in Africa
- Dr. Gideon Oluwatunase – University of Medical Sciences (UNIMED), Ondo City, Ondo State, Nigeria
- From Marlboro to the Mind: Product Liability for Platforms, Algorithms, and Wearable Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Lucy Tournas, Associate Faculty, ASU Law
Session 2.3 – Intellectual Property and AI
Room 250
- Strategic Overview of Agentic AI and Intellectual Property
- Tyson Winarski – Patent Attorney/Professor, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
- The March of the Undead: Some consequences of restoring patent-eligibility in genetic testing and genomic research
- Robert Cook-Deegan – Professor, Arizona State University
- Optimizing Sequential Innovation for the 21st Century
- Allison A. Schmitt – Assistant Professor, University of Oregon School of Law
- Public ≠ Permission: Copyright, AI Training, and Consent
- Jim Ko – Principal Attorney, Ko IP & AI Law PLLC; Adjunct Professor, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law; Executive Director, The AI Rights Project
Session 2.4 – AI in the Courts
Room 442
- When AI Judges the Justices: Model Alignment and the Limits of Supreme Court Prediction
- Sean Harrington – Director of the AI & Legal Tech Studio, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
- Hayley Stillwell – University of Oklahoma College of Law
- (Deep)Fake it `Til You Make It: Balancing AI-generated Evidence on the Scales of Justice
- Alexander Gilman, Esq. – Gilman Law Offices
- Interlocking Directorates and Artificial Intelligence
- Amir Dezfuli, JD, LLM – Alumni, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
- When Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Collide: The Lawyer’s Dilemma
- Robert F. Copple, JD, PhD – CIPP
Session 2.5 – Space Exploration and Trust
Room 450
- Implications of Space-Based AI Data Center Infrastructure on Territorial Governance
- Carissma McGee – PhD Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Rui-Jie Yew – PhD Candidate, Brown University
- Nadia Khan – PhD Candidate, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Finding Common Space: The Novel Space Environmental Ethics Attitudes Measure
- Caitlin Roe – PhD Student, Arizona State University
- Joseph G. O’Rourke – Associate Professor, Arizona State University
- Kathryn A. Johnson – Research Professor, Arizona State University
- Trust as a Complex System: Exploring Trust Dynamics Along a Governance Continuum
- Alires J. Almon – PhD Student, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University
- A Strategic Design Framework for Community Voice in Space Technology Governance
- Khushi Shah – Master’s Student, Parsons School of Design
- Timiebi Aganaba – Assistant Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University
Session 2.6 – Autonomous Machines
Room 644
- The Automation Illusion Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, Human Perception, and Negligence
- Tracy Pearl – William J. Alley Professor of Law, University of Oklahoma
- Defining the Limits: How Purpose Limitation Can Guide Safe Design and Regulation of Semi-Autonomous Vehicles
- Soumita Mukherjee – PhD Candidate, Pennsylvania State University
- A Network-Based Experimental Protocol for Coordination, Efficiency, and Resilience in Autonomous Space-Grade Manufacturing Systems
- Derick F. Tangap – Master’s Candidate, School of Complex Adaptive Systems, Nebula Research Lab – Arizona State University
- Considering Human and Machine Perspectives
- Helen A.F. Gould – Intel (Retired), Founder & Principal, Tech Strategizers LLC
2:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Break - snacks and beverages
Great Hall (2nd floor)
2:45 - 4:15 p.m.
Concurrent Session 3
Session 3.1 – Global AI and Digital Systems
Room 150
- AI Policy Drivers, Comparative Empiric Indicators Toward AI Governance in East Asian and Pacific Nations
- Emile Loza de Siles – Assistant Professor of Law, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
- Geopolitics of AI Governance
- Brad Allenby – Lincoln Professor of Ethics and Engineering, ASU
- Governing by Portal: Digital Public Services in Practice
- Bonnie Ervin – PhD Candidate, Research Associate, Arizona State University
- Lessons From Moltbook
- Brad Allenby, Lincoln Professor of Ethics and Engineering, ASU
Session 3.2 – Organizational Governance and AI
Room 240
- Compliance as a Catalyst: Transforming AI Risk into Strategic Advantage — The Cornerstone of Responsible Innovation
- Paul Flanagan – Assistant Professor of Law, Drexel Law School
- AI as a Mirror: Governance, Power, and the Behavioral Reality of Organizational Systems
- David Dean – Author and Independent Researcher
- Ambient Intelligence and the Practice of Law: How Wearable Technology Will Reshape Legal Work
- Sean Harrington – Director of the AI & Legal Tech Studio, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
- The Regulatory Gap: Managing the Convergence of AI, Privacy, and Cybersecurity as Governance Plays Catch-Up
- Ryan Johnson, Esq. – FIP, Chief Privacy Officer, The Technology Law Group
- R. Scott Jones, Esq. – AIGP, CIPP/US, Co-Founder of The Generative Company
- K Royal, PhD, JD – Crawford & Company, Arizona State University
Session 3.3 – Sustainability
Room 250
- Crypto’s Climate Conundrum
- Felix Mormann – Professor of Law, Texas A&M University School of Law
- The Solar Paradox: A Multi-Level Analysis of Policy, Agency, and Collective Structures Shaping Smallholder Farmers Capability
- Prashamsa Thapa, PhD – Arizona State University
- Governing Beyond Carbon: Utilizing Nutritional LCA to Mitigate Phosphorus Risks in Alternative Proteins
- Madison Horgan – Graduate Student, North Carolina State University
- Khara Grieger – North Carolina State University
- Looking Back as We Move Forward: Learning from Nanotechnology to Govern Other Emerging Technologies
- Khara Grieger – Assistant Professor in Environmental Health & Risk Assessment; Director of the Genetic Engineering and Society (GES) Center; Associate Director of Outreach and Engagement for the Bezos Center for Sustainable Protein, NC State
Session 3.4 – AI: U.S. Regulatory Approach
Room 442
- The Case For & Against an American Digital Markets Act (DMA)
- Satya Marar – Research Fellow, Innovation, Competition & Governance, Mercatus Center at George Mason University
- Guiding State AI Policy with Actionable Data-Driven Insights: The State AI Preparedness (SAIP) Index
- Michael Akinwumi – Adjunct Professor, The George Washington University & Chief AI Officer, National Fair Housing Alliance
- Evaluating America’s AI Action Plan through an Anticipatory Governance Lens
- Dr. Bea Rodriguez-Fransen – Assistant Professor, Principled Innovation, Arizona State University Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
- Is Italy Winning the AI Governance Race? A Comparative Analysis of US Frameworks Amidst the Italian and the EU AI Acts
- R. Aubrey Davis III – Assistant Professor of law, United States Air Force Academy
Session 3.5 – Medical Technology
Room 450
- From Evidence to Ownership: Ethical Governance of EHR-Based Interventions Beyond the Trial
- Alexandra Wicker – Graduate Research Assistant, Biomedical Ethics Research Program, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
- Shritha Gayathri – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Jon Tilburt – Biomedical Ethics Research Program, Mayo Clinic
- Federal preemption of state artificial intelligence laws: lessons for health and healthcare from cases of technological convergence
- Claire L. Ma – Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ohio-Michigan Law for Emerging Technologies Network
- Beth Ellinport – ORISE Fellow, US Army Corps of Engineers
- Lisa Frazier – Assistant Director for Research, The Ohio State University Battelle Center for Science, Engineering, and Public Policy
- Benjamin Trump – President, Society for Risk Analysis
- Holly Jarman – Associate Professor, University of Michigan School of Public Health
- AI and the Future of Public Health Surveillance: Ethical and Legal Governance Challenges Across Key Applications
- Fallon Cochlin, JD – Research Specialist, Texas A&M University School of Public Health
- Cason D. Schmit, JD – Associate Professor, Texas A&M University School of Public Health
- Hye-Chung Kum, PhD – Professor, Texas A&M University School of Public Health
- When Ethics Become Strategy: Comparative Governance of High-Risk Biomedicine
- Yizhe Wang – PhD Student, The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
Session 3.6 – Cyber Security
Room 644
- Cybersecurity in an Age of Quantum Computing
- Larry Bridgesmith – Affiliated Professor, Vanderbilt Law School
- From Compliance Theater to Operational Governance: Rebuilding Cybersecurity Standards in a Decentralized Institution
- Keith Swanson – Manager of Cybersecurity Risk and Analysis, ASU Enterprise Technology
- Ben Archer – ASU Enterprise Technology
- Ali Abel-Fattah – ASU Enterprise Technology
- Ben Bailey – ASU Enterprise Technology
- Cross-Border Data Governance: Managing Privacy, Security, and Regulation in a Global Digital World
- Rawad Habib – Professor of Blockchain, University of Advancing Technology
- The End of Passwords
- Matthew Murrell – Assistant Professor of Law, University of New Mexico School of Law
4:25 - 6 p.m.
Plenary Session – Space Law
Great Hall
- Moderator:
- Diana Bowman – Dean of the School of Law, The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
- Panelists:
- Timiebi Aganaba – Assistant Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, ASU
- Paul Binsfeld – Honorary Consul of Luxembourg, CEO Company Nurse, LLC
- R. Aubrey Davis III – Assistant Professor of Law, Director of Law and Emerging Technology, Deputy Department Head for Academics, Department of Law, U.S. Air Force Academy
- Justin Wilmeth – Arizona State House Representative
6 - 8 p.m.
Reception and Student Poster Session
Great Hall + Museum of Democracy (2nd floor lobby)
Reception sponsored by KPMG Law
Day 2 | Friday, May 22
7:30 - 8 a.m.
Breakfast
Great Hall (2nd floor)
8 - 9:30 a.m.
Plenary Session – Who Governs AI? Power, Policy, and Global Futures
Great Hall
- Moderator:
- Euvin Naidoo – Distinguished Professor of Practice for Accounting, Risk and Agility, and the Director of the Thunderbird Case Series
- Panelists:
- Natalie Byrne – Founder of blank space and BE Human platform
- Sophal Ear – Professor at Thunderbird School of Global Management, ASU
- Landry Signé – Professor and Executive Director, Washington D.C. programs at Thunderbird School of Global Management; Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
- Shirley-Ann Augustin-Behraveshv – Assistant Professor of Global Sustainable Enterprise and Senior Global Futures Scientist, ASU
- Karla C. Dembik – Founder & CEO of AEON Space U.S.
- Christine Pearson – Professor of Global Leadership at Thunderbird School of Global Management
9:30 - 9:45 a.m.
Break
9:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Concurrent Session 4
Session 4.1 – Panel: Governing Emerging Space Technologies
Room 150
- Timiebi Aganaba – Assistant Professor, Space and Society, Space Governance Lab
- Jessamine Stone – Undergraduate student, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University; SURF Fellow
- Carissma McGee – Doctoral Student, Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Joshua Barry – Undergraduate student, School of Political Science and Global Studies, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University; Intelligence Community Fellow, ODNI Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence
- Ramreddy Arolla – Graduate Student, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University
Session 4.2 – AI Tort and Liability
Room 240
- AI, Tort Duty, and Suable Intermediaries
- Jane Bambauer – Eminent Scholar and Professor of Law, University of Florida
- Ellen Bublick – Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
- Stranger Danger: Tort Liability for Harm to Minors in the Age of AI and Social Media
- Gary Myers – Earl F. Nelson Professor of Law, University of Missouri School of Law
- Consumer Protection and Institutional Limits: FTC Section 5 Enforcement in the Age of AI
- Kedhar Sankararaman – Policy Associate, Association for Competitive Technology (ACT)
- Graham Dufault – General Counsel, Association for Competitive Technology (ACT)
- Brian Scarpelli – Senior Global Policy Counsel, Association for Competitive Technology (ACT)
- Recognizing Substance Addiction as Harm in Torts
- Betsy Grey – Jack E. Brown Chair, Professor of Law, ASU
Session 4.3 – Higher Education and AI
Room 250
- The Future of Higher Education in a Fully Automated Economy
- Jeremy Weissman – Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Nova Southeastern University
- Scientific Communities as Sites of Governance
- Dr. Mayra Morales Tirado – Arizona State University
- AI and Automation in Higher Education — The Thunderbird Perspective on Emerging Technologies
- Dr. Laura Polk – Executive Director, Digital Initiatives & Learner Experience, Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University
- Loni Burnette – Sr. Director, Strategic Projects & Contracts, Thunderbird School of Global Management, ASU
- Governing Technoscience Law and Knowledge in Science Technology and Society (STS)
- Paolo Farah – Professor, University of Tulsa College of Law
Session 4.4 – Democracy and Technology
Room 442
- The Technoprogressive City: Municipal Strategies for Building Digital Democracy
- Matteo Rossi MacDermant – PhD Candidate, University of New Mexico
- Context, Truth, Law
- Jay Carpenter – Founder, Star15
- AI Concentration of Power Risks
- Paul Weitzel – Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Beyond the Binary: Adaptive Institutional Design in Digital Platforms Governance
- Denis Guimaraes – Partner, AGPR
Session 4.5 – AI and Children/Adolescence
Room 450
- When Teens Bond with Machines: A Developmental Perspective on the New Frontier of Generative AI Policy and Adolescents’ Relationships
- Taren L. McGray – Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Arizona State University
- Thao Ha – Associate Professor, Arizona State University
- Diana Bowman – Dean of the School of Law, The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
- Katina Michael – Program Director and Professor, University of Sydney
- AI-Driven Storytelling to Mitigate Medical Trauma in School-Aged Children Undergoing Medical Procedures: A Preliminary Study
- Primrose Dzenga – Research Associate, Arizona State University
- Complete Human Ectogenesis: Closer Than We Think?
- Henry Greely – Professor of Law, Stanford University
- Property and IVG: Recognizing a Reproductive-Use Incident in Separated Human Tissue
- Claire McGovern – Post-Doctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Center of Law and the Biosciences
Session 4.6 – Blockchain and Financial Technology
Room 644
- Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Privacy Regulation: Using Cryptography to Balance Compliance and Trust
- Rawad Habib – Professor of Blockchain, University of Advancing Technology
- AI Meets Blockchain: Industry Self-Regulation as a Solution to Jurisdiction and Choice of Law Issues in Intelligent NFT Transactions
- Tolulope Falokun – Assistant Professor of Law, University of Detroit Mercy School of Law
- Governing the Next Phase of Financial Crime Intelligence: The Case for Data Sharing
- Doron Goldbarsht – Associate Professor, Macquarie Law School, Sydney
- Timothy Goodrick – KPMG Sydney
- Prediction Markets, Innovation & Accountability in the Era of Web3.0
- Nizan Packin, Professor of Business Law, CUNY; University of Haifa
11:15 - 11:30 a.m.
Break - snacks and beverages
Great Hall (2nd floor)
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Plenary Session – AI Companions and Intimate Robots
Great Hall
- Moderator:
- Gary Marchant, PhD, JD – Faculty Director, Center for Law, Science and Innovation, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
- Panelists:
- Thao Ha – Associate Professor, Psychology, ASU
- April Xu – Forrester Fellow, Tulane University
- Ronald C. Arkin – Regents’ Professor Emeritus, School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing, Georgia Tech
- Lori Andrews – University Distinguished Professor Emerita, Professor of Law Emerita, Director of the Institute for Science, Law and Technology, Illinois Tech Chicago Kent College of Law
