Conference on

Governance of Emerging Technologies and Science

2024 GETS Speakers and Abstracts

May 16-17, 2024

Beus Center for Law and Society
Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University

111 E. Taylor Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004

Yasmin Afshar, PhD student, Research Associate, Center for Energy and Society, Arizona State University, Future of Electric Vehicles Infrastructure Deployment in Phoenix Metropolitan Area

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

Alberto Aparicio, Assistant Professor, University of Texas Medical Branch; They Want to Live Forever Private Investors and the Making of a Life Extension Revolution in Biomedicine

Emmi Bane, Principal Privacy Program Manager, HP, Senior Fellow, Ethics and AI, World Privacy Forum; Consent, Community Engagement, and the Social Governance of Emerging Technologies

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

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

Jay Carpenter, Founder, Desert Blockchain LLC, Decentralized Dispute Resolution and Web3

Ali Ekber Cinar, Doctoral student, McGill University Faculty of Law; The Language of the Law vs. the Language of the Computer

Paul Coble, Chair of Intellectual Property, Rose Law Group; Copyright in the Age of Generative AI

Amanda Courtright-Lim, Senior Program Coordinator, Mayo Clinic; Assessing Ethical Implication and Access Barriers in Gene Editing Therapeutics

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

Royal 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

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

Amir Dezfuli, Arizona State University Law Alumni; Environmental Standing

Julian Dreiman, Accenture Labs; Geoengineering and Playing God: Three Strategies for Governing Geoengineering Technology

Primrose Dzenga, College of Global Future, Arizona State University; The New Space Race and Anticipatory Governance: Who Has Jurisdiction Over Companies Registered in Space

Paul Flanagan, Associate Professor of Law, Drexel Law School; Taming the AI and Privacy Dragon

Simren Flora, Head of Risk and Compliance GEO, Google; AI Impact on Innovation in Tech

Alexander Gilman, Gilman Law Offices;  The Real (Estate) Impacts of AI: The Uses and Risks of AI in Real Property Practice

Doron Goldbarsht, Associate Professor, Director, Financial Integrity Hub; AI in Action: Safeguarding Financial Integrity through Advanced Counter-Terrorist Financing Strategies

Sara Golru, Medical Lawyer, HWL Ebsworth Lawyers; Sessional Academic, Sydney Law School; Judging the Genome: The Emerging Role of Genetic Evidence in Civil Litigation

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

Michael Goodyear, Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering, NYU School of Law; Infringing Information Architectures

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

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

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

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

Ryan Johnson, Chief Privacy Officer, Savvas Learning Company LLC; AI Policy and Governance Establishing Compliance Frameworks within Corporate and Educational Institutions

Trent Kannegieter, Chief of Staff, Platform Division at Blue Rive Technology;  Building Globally Inclusive Datasets: A Diplomatic Opportunity for the International Community

Nertila Kuraj, University of Oslo/UC Berkeley Law; Biotechnology Laws Fifty Years Later

Emily LaRosa, PhD student, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University; Creating Justifiable Systems: A Call for Iterative Regulation of Artificial Intelligence

Trason Lasley, JD candidate, J. Reuben Clark Law School; Forensic Microbiome Evidence: Fourth Amendment Applications and Court Acceptance

Yafit Lev-Aretz, Assistant Professor of Law, Baruch College, City University of NY; Privacy Notice and The Blame Game

Amanda Levendowski, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown Law; Fairer Use

Susanne Lloyd-Jones, Cyber Security CRC Post Doctoral Fellow, UNSW Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation; Towards Quantum Resiliencein an Unsecure World

Emile Loza de Siles, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Hawaii of Manoa William S. Richardson School of Law; Artificial Intelligence and Implications for the Rule of Law

Miklós Lukovics, Habilitated Associate Professor, University of Szeged, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration; A Responsible Innovation Approach Towards Autonomous Vehicles Readiness

Qin(Sky) Ma, Global Fellow, NYU School of Law; Digital Transformation in the Judiciary: Unveiling Challenges and Solutions Through Infrastructure Thinking and Systems Theory

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

Max Mashal, JD candidate, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University; Updating U.S. Medical Codesto Address AI’s Integration into the Healthcare Industry: A Roadmap

Karen Meagher, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Social Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine; Anticipatory Governance and Sociogenomics Ethical Legal and Social Implications of Polygenic Scores

Cari Miller, Founder, Center for Inclusive Change; Chair, AI Procurement Lab; Don’t Let the Bad Stuff In: Using Procurement as a Governance Tool

Dusko Milojevi, 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

Traci Morris, Executive Director and Research Professor, American Indian Policy Institute, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University; Tribal Digital Sovereignty

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

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

Gary Myers, Earl F. Nelson Professor of Law, University of Missouri School of Law; Regulating AI -Market and Regulatory Approaches

Hayden Myers, Assistant Attorney General; The Intersection of Natural Law and AI in American Jurisprudence

Nawshin Nahiat Haque Nimu, BSc Software Engineering student, De Montfort University Leicester; Striking a Delicate Balance: Ethical Considerations and Innovation in the Implementation of the AI Act

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

Paschal Ochang, Doctoral Researcher/Responsible Innovation in Autonomous Systems Research Fellow; Building a Robust Data Governance Ecosystem in Africa

Oluyinka Oyeniji, Researcher, De Montfort University, Leicester UK; Challenges of Advancing Neuroscience Research with Neurotechnologies in Africa

Nizan Packin, Professor of Law, Baruch College, City University of New York; Regulating Technologies that Scare Us: Blocking Generative AI

Joel Pacyna, Biomedical Ethics Research Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Patient Perspectives on Ubiquitous Voice Analysis in Healthcare

Tracy Pearl, William J. Alley Professor of Law, University of Oklahoma; Cooperative Control: Autonomous Vehicles, Safety, and Soft Law Regulatory Regime

Veronica Rios, JD candidate, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University; AI and the admissibility of forensic identification evidence

Caity Roe, Ph.D. student, Arizona State University; Advancing the Space 4.0 Era A Policy Oriented Jurisprudence Approach to Trust Mechanisms

Kedharnath 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

Lirong Shi, Research Associate (Postdoctoral), University of Michigan; A New Testing Scheme for Mitigating Bias in Training Data of Autonomous Vehicles

Tobby Shulruff, PhD student, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University; AI and Human Labor in Content Moderation and Trust & Safety

Anil Sood, Senior Manager, AI Governance Lead, Ernst & Young; Large Language Models in the Banking Industry: Unpacking Opportunities and Challenges

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

Lawrence Trautman, Associate Professor, Business Law and Ethics, Prairie View A&M University; Sam Altman Open AI and The Importance of Corporate Governance

Vladimir Troitskiy, Senior Partner, Lex International Law Firm; A.I Big Data and Positivist Criminology The Evolution of Technology and Predictive Punishment

Vikram Venkatram, Biotechnology Research Analyst, Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University; Policy Implications of Artificial Intelligence Impacting the Biological Sciences

Vanessa Villanueva Collao, Max Weber Fellow in Law, European University Institute of Fiesole (Italy); Cryptogaterkeeprs in Decentralized Finance Conflicts of Interest and Prospective Solution

Moritz Von Knebel, Project Manager (FAR AI); Contextualizing Risks and Benefits of AI Securitization

Gad Weiss, JSD candidate, Columbia Law School; A Theory of Seed Financing

Richard Williams, Board Chair, Center for Truth in Science; Twenty First Century Revolution in Food Production and Consumption

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

Tyson Winarski, Patent Attorney and Professor, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, University of San Francisco School of Law; Tsunami of Blockchain Patents