UCLA Working Conference on Nanotechnology Policy

The 2009 Working Conference on Nanotech Regulatory Policy will be held at the University of California, Los Angeles campus on April 17.  The Conference will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and researchers, policymakers, non-governmental organizations, and businesses for action-oriented workshop panels on the science and policy of nanotechnology.  The goal of the Conference is to critically evaluate several specific policy proposals for responding to the potential public health and environmental impacts of nanotechnology.  The Conference will examine three categories of policy responses through several panels:

 ∙          Reliance on existing regulatory programs

∙           Development of innovative “nano-specific” regulatory programs

∙           Reliance upon “private” regulation (e.g., industry initiatives, insurance mechanisms, etc.)

 The policy proposals will be set out in a series of succinct papers commissioned by the Conference sponsors and distributed to all participants in advance of the Conference.  These papers will be published in the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy.

Registration is available online.  Visit the website at http://www.cnsi.ucla.edu/NanoRegulatoryPolicy/

Speakers include:

            Dr. Andrew Maynard

Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

 

            Dr. Bernard Goldstein

University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health

 

            Dr. John Froines

UCLA School of Public Health

 

            Dr. Jeffrey Wong

California Department of Toxic Substances Control

 

            Dr. Andre Nel

UC Center for the Environmental Impact of Nanotechnology

 

           Dr. Diana M. Bowman and Dr. George Gilligan

Monash Centre for Regulatory Studies

Monash University

 

            Professor Gary Marchant

Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law

Arizona State University

 

            Dr. Magali Delmas

UCLA Institute of the Environment

 

           Thomas R. Jacob

Government Affairs Manager, Western Region

DuPont Company

 

            Professor Douglas Kysar

Yale Law School

 

            Professor David Dana

            Northwestern University School of Law

 

            Professor Timothy Malloy

UCLA School of Law

 

            Professor Sean Hecht

UCLA School of Law

 

            Professor Lee C. Paddock

George Washington University Law School

 

           Dr. Oren Perez

Bar Ilan University

Faculty of Law

 

            Dr. Hilary Godwin

            UCLA School of Public Health

 

Sponsors

 ∙           UCLA Law and Environmental Health Sustainable Technology Policy Program

∙           UCLA Law School Evan Frankel Environmental Law and Policy   Program

∙           UC Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology

∙           UC Nanotoxicology Research and Training Program

∙           UCLA Center for Occupational and Environmental Health

∙           Ralph and Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies

∙           UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy

 

 

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