March 23, 2010
In a recent press release, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law announced that two $1 million grants will establish and fund a family justice center and clinic.
The monetary allocations will bring together existing programs and concentrations to provide legal services and care to victims of domestic violence. Dean Paul Schiff Berman said the collaboration should bring together “students in law, social work, nursing psychology, and criminology to work holistically on the complex web of issues surrounding family violence.”
Retired Justice O’Connor echoed Berman’s collaborative focus, saying, “Solutions for domestic violence require a comprehensive approach to connect the wealth of resources that are needed to tackle this issue — from . . . → Continue Reading
February 2, 2010
At a ceremony last week, Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law officially recast its science and law center, adding to it further programs.
The newly-named Center for Law, Science & Innovation now features a Program in Law and Sustainability, a Public Health Law and Policy Program, and The Prevail Project, a behavioral development research initiative we covered earlier this month.
The renaming ceremony also served as an anniversary of the center’s forerunner, which has been in existence on the law school campus since 1984. According to a school press release, the center was the country’s first “to address the . . . → Continue Reading
January 4, 2010
Beginning this month, a new appointment at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law will initiate a project examining how emerging technologies affect human behavior.
An author and former reporter, Joel Garreau has been named the school’s Lincoln Professor of Law, Culture and Values. His appointment creates institutional framework for his research on The Prevail Project: Wise Governance for Challenging Futures. As director, Garreau and the project will take “an unprecedented look at the hinge in history at which the human race has arrived,” as indicated by a school press release. Such research will examine how modern technologies impact human development.
According to Garreau, “the critical issue, of course, is not technology, . . . → Continue Reading
