Tsosie gives keynote at NSU commencement


June 14, 2011


Professor Rebecca">http://apps.law.asu.edu/Apps/Faculty/Faculty.aspx?individual_id=127">Reb... Tsosie, a Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar and Executive Director of the Indian Legal Program at the College of Law, gave the keynote address on June 12 at the Nova Southeastern University Graduate Schools commencement in Fort Lauderdale-Davie, Fla.


Tsosie teaches in the areas of Indian law, Property, Bioethics, and Critical Race Theory, as well as seminars in International Indigenous Rights and in the College’s Tribal Policy, Law, and Government Master of Laws program. She has written and published widely on doctrinal and theoretical issues related to tribal sovereignty, environmental policy and cultural rights, and is the author of many prominent articles dealing with cultural resources and cultural pluralism. Tsosie also is the co-author of a federal Indian law casebook. Her current research deals with Native rights to genetic resources. Tsosie annually speaks at several national conferences on tribal sovereignty, self-determination, and tribal rights to environmental and cultural resources. She is a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Law and Global Affairs, and an Affiliate Professor in the ASU American Indian Studies Program. Rebecca Tsosie Download Full Image


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Marchant quoted in Wall Street Journal


June 14, 2011


Gary">http://apps.law.asu.edu/Apps/Faculty/Faculty.aspx?individual_id=6">Gary Marchant, the ASU Lincoln Professor of Emerging Technologies, Law and Ethics at the College of Law, was quoted in a May 31 blog on The Wall Street Journal website.


The posting, “As Science Advances, Will Interest in the Death Penalty Wane?,” refers to a column by Arizona Republic staffer E.J. Montini who wondered how new data on neuroscience and genetics might help explain criminal behavior. The data was examined during a recent conference co-hosted by the College of Law at the federal courthouse in downtown Phoenix. Gary Marchant Download Full Image


“There is a ton of new science coming forward in both genetics and neuroscience that describe the brain in a way that leads to a predisposition to violent behavior,” said Marchant, Executive Director of the law school’s Center for Law, Science & Innovation.


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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.


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