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email, you will find a table of contents with links to the articles from
our first issue.
The LST program has had a very active and fruitful fall with a series of interesting events, a broad selection of which is covered in these pages. Most notably, the Conference on CyberSecurity, Research, and Disclosure was a great success and will provide an excellent basis for future debate on how disclosures of network vulnerability can best be used to promote security. On February 27, 2004, we will present a conference entitled “Unnatural Selection: Should California Regulate Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis?” which will mark the launch of our new Center for Law and the Biosciences. “Unnatural Selection” will be followed on February 28 by the inaugural conference of Stanford BioLaw, “Brave New Law: Human Reproduction and Biotechnology.” For more information about these two groundbreaking LST events, please read the article on page 11 and visit the event websites via http://lst.stanford.edu/bioscience/pgd/.
The student groups operating under the umbrella of the LST Program—SLATA and Stanford BioLaw—have planned an array of cutting-edge events as part of the respective LST/SLATA, CIS/SLATA, and BioLaw speaker series. In addition, BioLaw is busily developing its new newsletter entitled “SNPs,” to which we are very much looking forward.
I would also like to alert you to our new LST newsblog, located at http://lst.stanford.edu, which provides a unique legal perspective on the increasingly prominent role that science and technology play in the world today.
This issue of LST@Stanford features the following stories:
Stanford BioLaw Tackles Property in a Biotech Era: Stanford BioLaw’s first two speaker events, with special guests Dr. David Magnus, new co-director of the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics, and Dr. Amir Attaran, associate fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London.
Interview with Professor John Barton: Professor Barton speaks about his recent and future scholarship on the economics of IP systems and development.
Bio-X grant program on Ethical Dimensions of Neuroscience Research: LST Professor Henry T. Greely teams up with faculty from the School of Medicine and the School of Humanities and Sciences to strengthen the ethics infrastructure of neuroscience research at Stanford.
Opening of new James H. Clark Center: A history of the interdisciplinary Bio-X Program and a description of the impact of the new Clark Center, which houses academics from 23 different Stanford University departments.
Charter Affiliate Partners Help Launch New LST Affiliates Program:
Affymetrix; Fenwick & West LLP; Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP; and Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP become charter Affiliate Partners.
CIS/SLATA speaker Dave Winer: Winer, publisher of the longest currently running weblog and fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, visited Stanford Law School as a guest of the SLATA/CIS speaker series to discuss blogging and its relevance to cyberlaw.
Review of Conference on CyberSecurity, Research, and Disclosure: Computer security researchers, hackers, software vendors, and legal experts convened at the Law School to discuss how vulnerability disclosure can best promote security.
Upcoming LST Conferences: Unnatural Selection: Should California Regulate Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis, Brave New Law, and Securing Privacy in the Internet Age. We hope you will enjoy reading this edition of LST@Stanford. Please feel free to forward this newsletter to anyone else who might be interested in topics arising at the intersection of law, science, and technology. If you are not already on our mailing list, please sign up to receive LST@Stanford and other e-mailings at http://lst.stanford.edu.
Very truly yours,
Roland Vogl
Executive Director, Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology, and Editor-in-Chief of LST@Stanford |
