The major questions doctrine poses direct and indirect issues for regulating new tech in the US, and Lucy Tournas and I begin thinking through the legal, policy, and political issues in our new article forthcoming in HTLJ. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Walter G Johnson and I discuss the Supreme Court's shift in interpreting agency authority and how that may affect how we manage emerging technologies. slate.com/technology/202…

A piece I wrote with Walter G Johnson on the vast potential for therapeutic brain-computer interface devices. Success will also require keeping close watch on vulnerable individuals and the ever changing landscape of behavioral treatments in development minds.

📢We are hiring! An amazing opportunity for a Research Fellow to work closely with ANURegNet Director @k8henne to carry out independent and collaborative research on the governance of #health, #technoscience and well-being. Apply by 2 April. Learn more: jobs.anu.edu.au/cw/en/job/5499…

Check out PhD scholar Walter G Johnson's new edited book, Reproduction Reborn: How Science, Ethics, and Law Shape Mitochondrial Replacement Therapies with Diana Bowman and Karinne Ludlow ⬇️ global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Just received a copy of our edited volume exploring mitochondrial replacement. I'm beyond grateful to my co-editors Diana Bowman and Karinne Ludlow and to all of our contributing authors.

The first birth(s) in the UK from mitochondrial donation have now been reported. In our new edited volume, our contributing authors explore the science, ethics, and law of these techniques from a variety of perspectives: tinyurl.com/3em8j56a

Happy to share my recent piece for Australian Institute of International Affairs calling for more public consultation and civil society voices in conversations about neurotech and neurorights. internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutl…

If you want to know what's supposed to happen when according to the just-released White House Executive Order on AI, here's a brief summary: open.techwriters.info/andrewmaynard/… #artificialintelligence

Should neurotechnologies go into the sandbox? go.nature.com/3UNCZDb

Emerging neurotechnologies such as brain–computer interfaces bring together components of biotech and digital technology, creating a number of different policy issues which may call for different policy responses go.nature.com/3UNCZDb rdcu.be/dG5QO

Congratulations to our PhD scholar Walter G Johnson for winning the 2024 LSI Graduate Student Paper Competition! What an incredible achievement 🎉👏🏽 ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

I'm honoured my piece was selected as the winner of Law & Social Inquiry's 2024 Grad Student Paper Competition. The paper looks at how drawing boundaries around and within "neurotech" has contributed to the emergence of a new space of transnational lawmaking.

Congratulations to the 2024 Law & Social Inquiry Graduate Student Paper Competition Winner: Walter G Johnson! 🎉 His paper “It's (Not) Just Semantics: ‘Neurotechnology’ as a Novel Space of Transnational Legal Governance” will be published in LSI: cup.org/3SmTVyK ANURegNet

Postdoctoral Fellow at SLS's Center for Law and the Biosciences Walter Johnson published an opinion piece, "Congress must act now to protect the future of diagnostic tests," for @Statnews. Read more here: stanford.io/3V1kN8G

Stanford Stanford CLB fellow Walter Johnson strikes again! More useful analysis of the details of "neurorights." link.springer.com/article/10.100…

At its annual conference in September, Meta revealed Orion, its new smart glasses product. Three days later, California enacted legislation to make data from the “peripheral nervous system” protected under the CA Consumer Privacy Act. Read more here: stanford.io/4g06kCh