Centre for Law and Policy in Emerging Technologies

The Centre for Law and Policy in Emerging Technologies is the only New Zealand-based research centre that examines the legal, ethical and policy issues around new technologies. These include biotechnology, nanotechnology, alternative bio-energy, information and communication technologies, robotics and artificial intelligence.

Associate Professor Colin Gavaghan is the director of the Centre. The director’s position was established under the University of Otago’s Leading Thinkers Initiative, supported by an endowment from the Law Foundation.

The Law Foundation’s vision for the work led by the Director and Centre is to encourage the formulation of a framework for the systematic and comprehensive evaluation of emerging technologies, and to build New Zealand’s legal and policy capability in these developing areas.

Supported by an endowment from the New Zealand Law Foundation.