Titles

• Distinguished Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
• Regents Professor and Lincoln Professor of Emerging Technologies, Law and Ethics, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
• Executive Director and Faculty Fellow, Center for the Study of Law, Science and Innovation

Biography

Gary Marchant is a Regents Professor of Law and director of the Center for Law, Science and Innovation. His research interests include legal aspects of genomics and personalized medicine, the use of genetic information in environmental regulation, risk and the precautionary principle, and governance of emerging technologies such as nanotechnology, neuroscience, biotechnology and artificial intelligence.

He teaches courses in Law, Science and Technology, Genetics and the Law, Biotechnology: Science, Law and Policy, Health Technologies and Innovation, Privacy, Big Data and Emerging Technologies, and Artificial Intelligence: Law and Ethics. He was named a Regents' Professor in 2011 and also is a professor in ASU’s School of Life Sciences, a Distinguished Sustainability Scientist in ASU’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, and is a Lincoln Professor of Emerging Technologies Law and Ethics with the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at ASU.

Prior to joining ASU in 1999, Professor Marchant was a partner at the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis, where his practice focused on environmental and administrative law. During law school, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology and editor of the Harvard Environmental Law Review and was awarded the Fay Diploma (awarded to top graduating student at Harvard Law School).

Professor Marchant frequently lectures about the intersection of law and science at national and international conferences. He has authored more than 150 articles and book chapters on various issues relating to emerging technologies. Among other activities, he has served on five National Academy of Sciences committees, has been the principal investigator on several major grants, and has organized numerous academic conferences on law and science issues.

Education

• MPP, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1990
• JD, Harvard Law School, 1990
• PhD, Genetics, University of British Columbia, 1986
• BSc, University of British Columbia, 1980

Expertise

• biotechnology
• legal aspects of personalized medicine
• nanotechnology
• neuroscience
• regulation of emerging technologies
• risk
• use of genetic information in environmental regulation
• privacy
• health law and policy
• food policy
• environmental policy
• energy efficiency technologies
• Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions