Gary E Marchant
Biographic Data
| ID | 1671945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary E Marchant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary E |
| FAMILY NAME | Marchant |
| SIGNATURE | MARCHANT G E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1281-9860 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ideas on Optimizing the Future Soft Law Governance of AI
This special issue published in cooperation with IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society (December 2021) is dedicated to examining the governance of artificial intelligence (AI) through soft law. These programs are characterized by the creation of substantive expectations that are not directly enforced by government [1] , [2] . The articles herein were selected from a project funded by the Charles Koch Foundation and administered by Arizona S…
Improving Soft Law Governance of the Internet of Things
From smart cities to smart homes to smart factories, the Internet of Things (IoT) is the underlying technology that is powering a sea change in human-technological interaction. The IoT consists of an ever-expanding network of “things” that are connected to the Internet. These connected “things” go beyond the ubiquitous Internet and mobile platforms currently in existence, such as laptops and smartphones, and now include medical devices [1] , smar…
Emerging Technologies
What Are Best Practices for Ethical Use of Nanosensors for Worker Surveillance
Many employers now offer workers wearable or implantable devices that can monitor their health, productivity, and wellness. Nanotechnology enables even more powerful and functional monitoring capacity for these devices. A history of workplace monitoring programs suggests that, despite nanosensors' potential benefits to employers and employees, they can only be successful and sustainable when a company's motivations for offering them are acceptabl…
Beyond Cost‐Benefit Analysis in the Governance of Synthetic Biology
For many innovations, oversight fits nicely within existing governance mechanisms; nevertheless, others pose unique public health, environmental, and ethical challenges. Synthetic artemisinin, for example, has many precursors in laboratory‐developed drugs that emulate natural forms of the same drug. The policy challenges posed by synthetic artemisinin do not differ significantly in kind from other laboratory‐formulated drugs. Synthetic biofuels a…
Soft Law’ mechanisms for nanotechnology
Nanotechnology presents significant challenges to traditional approaches of health, safety, and environmental regulation, which has been accordingly slow to be implemented. To help fill this gap, a number of 'soft law' voluntary programs for risk management of nanomaterials have been implemented or proposed, but participation in, and impacts of, such programs has been disappointedly limited to date. This article suggests two potential drivers to …
International Harmonization of Regulation of Nanomedicine
Nanomedicine holds enormous promise for the improved prevention, detection and treatment of disease. Yet, at the same time, countervailing concerns about the potential safety risks of nano-technologies generally, and nanomedical products specifically, threaten to derail or at least delay the introduction and commercial viability of many nanomedicine applications. All around the globe, national governments are struggling with balancing these compe…
Evaluating New Technologies
Not again! Public perception, regulation, and nanotechnology
It is often argued that immediate government action regarding nanotechnology is needed to ensure that public opinion does not mistakenly view nanotechnology as dangerous, to restore public trust in government, and to increase the legitimacy of government action through increased public participation. This article questions whether governments can achieve these goals. As the world lurches toward regulation of nanotechnology, we should ask Why the …
Risk Management Principles for Nanotechnology
Arbitrary and Capricious
The precautionary principle, stated most simply, says it is better to be safe than sorry in regulating health and environmental risks. Marchant (Arizona State U. College of Law) and Mossman (health physics, Arizona State U.) review ten years of application of the precautionary principle in the courts of the European Union, finding that it has been
Genetic Samples and Genetic Philanthropy
DNA samples are the life-blood of modern genetic research. By analyzing genetic variations in DNA collected from a population of individuals, and correlating those variations with health outcomes, researchers are ushering in a new era of more effective and personalized medical diagnosis and treatment. The enormous potential of genetic medicine is threatened, however, by growing barriers to the availability of adequate genetic samples, and this pr…
The precautionary principle
A tenet of administrative law, particularly in the United States, is that regulators must base their decisions on 'intelligible principles' to provide consistency, predictability, transparency and accountability. The precautionary principle, which purports to provide a new decision rule for making environmental decisions under conditions of uncertainty, fails to provide such an intelligible principle for making decisions. The precautionary princi…
Arbitrary and Capricious
The precautionary principle, stated most simply, says it is better to be safe than sorry in regulating health and environmental risks. Marchant (Arizona State U. College of Law) and Mossman (health physics, Arizona State U.) review ten years of application of the precautionary principle in the courts of the European Union, finding that it has been
Not again! Public perception, regulation, and nanotechnology
It is often argued that immediate government action regarding nanotechnology is needed to ensure that public opinion does not mistakenly view nanotechnology as dangerous, to restore public trust in government, and to increase the legitimacy of government action through increased public participation. This article questions whether governments can achieve these goals. As the world lurches toward regulation of nanotechnology, we should ask Why the …
Risk Management Principles for Nanotechnology
The precautionary principle
A tenet of administrative law, particularly in the United States, is that regulators must base their decisions on 'intelligible principles' to provide consistency, predictability, transparency and accountability. The precautionary principle, which purports to provide a new decision rule for making environmental decisions under conditions of uncertainty, fails to provide such an intelligible principle for making decisions. The precautionary princi…
Soft Law’ mechanisms for nanotechnology
Nanotechnology presents significant challenges to traditional approaches of health, safety, and environmental regulation, which has been accordingly slow to be implemented. To help fill this gap, a number of 'soft law' voluntary programs for risk management of nanomaterials have been implemented or proposed, but participation in, and impacts of, such programs has been disappointedly limited to date. This article suggests two potential drivers to …
The precautionary principle
A tenet of administrative law, particularly in the United States, is that regulators must base their decisions on 'intelligible principles' to provide consistency, predictability, transparency and accountability. The precautionary principle, which purports to provide a new decision rule for making environmental decisions under conditions of uncertainty, fails to provide such an intelligible principle for making decisions. The precautionary princi…
Genetic Samples and Genetic Philanthropy
DNA samples are the life-blood of modern genetic research. By analyzing genetic variations in DNA collected from a population of individuals, and correlating those variations with health outcomes, researchers are ushering in a new era of more effective and personalized medical diagnosis and treatment. The enormous potential of genetic medicine is threatened, however, by growing barriers to the availability of adequate genetic samples, and this pr…
Arbitrary and Capricious
The precautionary principle, stated most simply, says it is better to be safe than sorry in regulating health and environmental risks. Marchant (Arizona State U. College of Law) and Mossman (health physics, Arizona State U.) review ten years of application of the precautionary principle in the courts of the European Union, finding that it has been
Risk Management Principles for Nanotechnology
Evaluating New Technologies
Not again! Public perception, regulation, and nanotechnology
It is often argued that immediate government action regarding nanotechnology is needed to ensure that public opinion does not mistakenly view nanotechnology as dangerous, to restore public trust in government, and to increase the legitimacy of government action through increased public participation. This article questions whether governments can achieve these goals. As the world lurches toward regulation of nanotechnology, we should ask Why the …
International Harmonization of Regulation of Nanomedicine
Nanomedicine holds enormous promise for the improved prevention, detection and treatment of disease. Yet, at the same time, countervailing concerns about the potential safety risks of nano-technologies generally, and nanomedical products specifically, threaten to derail or at least delay the introduction and commercial viability of many nanomedicine applications. All around the globe, national governments are struggling with balancing these compe…
Soft Law’ mechanisms for nanotechnology
Nanotechnology presents significant challenges to traditional approaches of health, safety, and environmental regulation, which has been accordingly slow to be implemented. To help fill this gap, a number of 'soft law' voluntary programs for risk management of nanomaterials have been implemented or proposed, but participation in, and impacts of, such programs has been disappointedly limited to date. This article suggests two potential drivers to …
Beyond Cost‐Benefit Analysis in the Governance of Synthetic Biology
For many innovations, oversight fits nicely within existing governance mechanisms; nevertheless, others pose unique public health, environmental, and ethical challenges. Synthetic artemisinin, for example, has many precursors in laboratory‐developed drugs that emulate natural forms of the same drug. The policy challenges posed by synthetic artemisinin do not differ significantly in kind from other laboratory‐formulated drugs. Synthetic biofuels a…
What Are Best Practices for Ethical Use of Nanosensors for Worker Surveillance
Many employers now offer workers wearable or implantable devices that can monitor their health, productivity, and wellness. Nanotechnology enables even more powerful and functional monitoring capacity for these devices. A history of workplace monitoring programs suggests that, despite nanosensors' potential benefits to employers and employees, they can only be successful and sustainable when a company's motivations for offering them are acceptabl…
Emerging Technologies
Ideas on Optimizing the Future Soft Law Governance of AI
This special issue published in cooperation with IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society (December 2021) is dedicated to examining the governance of artificial intelligence (AI) through soft law. These programs are characterized by the creation of substantive expectations that are not directly enforced by government [1] , [2] . The articles herein were selected from a project funded by the Charles Koch Foundation and administered by Arizona S…
Improving Soft Law Governance of the Internet of Things
From smart cities to smart homes to smart factories, the Internet of Things (IoT) is the underlying technology that is powering a sea change in human-technological interaction. The IoT consists of an ever-expanding network of “things” that are connected to the Internet. These connected “things” go beyond the ubiquitous Internet and mobile platforms currently in existence, such as laptops and smartphones, and now include medical devices [1] , smar…
Business (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Corporate governance (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Risk analysis (engineering (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (3 works)