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Carrie A. ScrufariCarrie Scrufari, Esq. joined the Vermont Law School Faculty as an Assistant Professor and Senior Fellow at the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems after completing her LL.M. in Food and Agricultural Law and Policy in December 2016. She earned her J.D. from the University of Maryland in 2011, where she graduated as a member of the Order of the Coif and the Order of Barristers. She is a member of the N.Y. Bar and has clerked at the N.Y. State Supreme Court Appellate Division Fourth Department and at the Court of Appeals in Albany, New York. She thanks Dave Muraskin, John Echeverria, and Pat Parenteau for all their thoughtful feedback and the staff of the UCLA Law Review for their comments and editing assistance. 65 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. (2017)

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A Watershed Moment Revealing What’s at Stake: How Ag-Gag Statutes Could Impair Data Collection and Citizen Participation in Agency Rulemaking

In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. —George Orwell1 Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. —United View Complete Listing

64 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 572 (2017)

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Celebration of the Life of Professor Skye Donald

On October 23, 2016, the UCLA School of Law hosted a memorial to celebrate the life of Professor Skye Donald, whose battle with cancer ended on October 16, 2016. Family, friends, colleagues, and students gathered to remember Professor Donald for the joy she brought to the world, and the lasting impression she will continue to View Complete Listing

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PULSE Symposium 2016

Foreword - Imagining the Legal Landscape: Technology and the Law in 2030 Jennifer L. Mnookin & Richard M. Re Legal scholarship tends to focus on the past, the present, or the relatively visible, near-term future. And that’s understandable: the challenges that loom many years away often aren’t susceptible to confident View Complete Listing

William BoydWilliam Boyd is Professor and John H. Schultz Energy Law Fellow at the University of Colorado Law School. He thanks participants in the April 2016 Program on Understanding, Law Science, and Evidence (PULSE) Symposium, “Imagining the Legal Landscape: Technology and the Law in 2030,” for stimulating conversation and valuable feedback on an earlier draft of this Essay. Special thanks to Richard Re and Dean Jennifer Mnookin for the opportunity to participate in the PULSE Symposium and to the editors of the UCLA Law Review for their excellent suggestions and editorial assistance. Thanks also to participants at the 2016 Colorado-Duke Climate Change Law and Policy Workshop for comments on an earlier draft. 64 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 544 (2016)

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Environmental Law, Big Data, and the Torrent of Singularities

Abstract How will big data impact environmental law in the near future? This Essay imagines one possible future for environmental law in 2030 that focuses on the implications of big data for the protection of public health from risks associated with pollution and industrial chemicals. It assumes the perspective of an View Complete Listing

Elizabeth E. JohProfessor of Law, U.C. Davis School of Law. Thanks to the participants of the Program on Understanding Law, Science, and Evidence (PULSE) Imagining the Legal Landscape: Technology and the Law in 2030, Ryan Calo, and Michael Froomkin for their helpful comments. 64 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 516 (2016)

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Policing Police Robots

Abstract Just as they will change healthcare, manufacturing, and the military, robots have the potential to produce big changes in policing. We can expect that at least some robots used by the police in the future will be artificially intelligent machines capable of using legitimate coercive force against human beings. Police View Complete Listing

Christopher KeltyChristopher Kelty is a Professor in the Institute for Society and Genetics, the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. 64 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 488 (2016)

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Two Fables

Abstract This Article contains two imaginary stories about the future. The first attempts to imagine what might happen if intellectual property law no longer prohibited copying and we were to live in a world entirely driven by data, algorithms, and metrics that monitor reading and discussion; in particular, it dwells on how View Complete Listing

Edward A. ParsonEdward A. Parson is Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law and Faculty co-director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the University of California, Los Angeles. 64 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 464 (2016)

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Social Control of Technological Risks: The Dilemma of Knowledge and Control in Practice, and Ways to Surmount It

Abstract Effective management of societal risks from technological innovation requires two types of conditions: sufficient knowledge about the nature and severity of risks to identify preferred responses; and sufficient control capacity (legal, political, and managerial) to adopt and implement preferred responses. While it has View Complete Listing

Jane R. BambauerAssociate Professor of Law, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. (By 2030, I expect to be Full Professor.) 64 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 434 (2016)

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Glass Half Empty

Abstract This science-fiction legal Essay is set in the year 2030. It anticipates the development and mass adoption of a device called the "Ruby" that records everything a person does. By imagining how law and society would adjust to such a device, the Essay uncovers two surprising insights about public policy: first, policy View Complete Listing

Jaclyn SeelagyFellow for the Program on Understanding Law, Science, and Evidence (PULSE) at the UCLA School of Law. B.A., 2008, Biological Science, University of Chicago; M.F.S., 2011, Forensic Science, George Washington University; J.D., 2015, University of California, Los Angeles. I thank Professor Richard Re and Tyler Jones, as well as the other participants in the symposium, for their contributions to this Essay. 64 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 412 (2016)

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Virtual Violence

Abstract Immersive virtual reality may change the way we interact with each other. In the future, we may be technologically capable of experiencing every aspect of an interaction except its physiological consequences. So what does this mean for interpersonal violence? If virtual reality creates a strong sense of “presence,” View Complete Listing

Robin FeldmanHarry & Lillian Hastings Professor and Director of the Institute for Innovation Law, University of California Hastings College of the Law. The Institute’s Startup Legal Garage program matches early stage companies with students and supervising attorneys at outside law firms for free legal work. Caribou, which was founded by the University of California’s clustered regularly-interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) inventor group, was matched by the program in the company’s early stages. The Institute receives no privileged or confidential information, but reading about the company spurred the author’s interest in the science of CRISPR and its implications for the patent system. The author also notes the general affiliation of the University of California Hastings and the broader University of California system. I am grateful to Evan Frondorf and Connie Wang for invaluable research assistance and to Shelley Ackerman and Nathan Kipniss for comments on prior drafts. I also wish to thank participants in the UCLA Program on Understanding Law, Science, and Evidence (PULSE) Symposium on “Imagining the Legal Landscape: Technology and the Law in 2030” for their comments and reflections. 64 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 392 (2016)

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The CRISPR Revolution: What Editing Human DNA Reveals About the Patent System’s DNA

Abstract Not since the invention that launched the entire biotech industry has a life science invention offered as much promise as the CRISPR technique for editing genes. Gene editing techniques existed before CRISPR, but they were slow, inaccurate, and expensive. The CRISPR invention is like moving from the manual View Complete Listing