Centre for Law and Policy in Emerging Technologies Projects

Emerging Technologies – ‘Future of Fairness’ Symposium Series 2011

Sport, Technology and Fairness; Fairness and Future Generations

Symposium: 22 - 23 March 2011
Note: Public Lecture on the evening of 22 March 2011

The New Zealand Law Foundation Centre for Law & Policy in Emerging Technologies, together with Genetics Otago, is delighted to invite you to the first event in our Future of Fairness series:

Future of Fairness Symposium

22 - 23 March 2011

Whether in the sporting arena, the genetics lab or the exam hall, new technologies present new challenges for ideas of 'fairness' and 'justice'. The Future of Fairness series will consider this complex and intriguing relationship, and its implications for law, policy and society. The series gets underway with the first of its academic symposiums on Tuesday the 22nd and Wednesday the 23rd of March, with a public lecture on the evening of the 22nd. Featuring an outstanding line up of local and internationally renowned researchers, this symposium will explore:

Day 1: Sport, technology and fairness: What is it that we value about sports competitions, and to what extent is that value increased or threatened by practices such as 'gene doping' or 'smart' sportswear? Are regulatory bodies like WADA safeguarding something of value, or are their rules arbitrary and archaic?

Day 2: Fairness and future generations: Genetic and reproductive technologies present a growing range of options for influencing or selecting the traits of future children. But are we right to do so? What obligations do we owe to the children we may have? Is radical enhancement consistent with continuity of personal identity? And what impact will enhancement technologies have on the unenhanced?

In short, are we drawing lines in the right places – or indeed, are we right to draw lines at all?

Guest speakers:

• Andy Miah, Professor of Ethics and Emerging Technologies at the University of the West of Scotland, author of Genetically Modified Athletes (Routledge, 2004)
• Ronald M Green, Eunice & Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values at Dartmouth College, and author of Babies by Design: The Ethics of Genetic Choice (Yale University Press, 2007).

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Nanotechnology

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The Centre recently completed a review of New Zealand’s regulatory system relating to nanotechnology. The review was funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation/Ministry of Research, Science and Technology.

Law Foundation-sponsored Human Genome Research Project

‘Law, Ethics and Policy for the Future’

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