Cell-Cultured Meat to Cybersecurity Pedagogy? It's fall in Nebraska.

Wed, 11/18/2020

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In the November 9th episode of Tech Refactored we discussed lab-grown meat from four different perspectives: legal, engineering, social, and marketing. Can a steak be grown in a lab? What about a filet mignon? Tuna?

Tune in and find out! 
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The rural digital divide is one of the most pressing, and difficult to solve, public policy issues in America today. Our Center’s ongoing work brings together experts from around the country that have been involved in digital divide policy, to discuss the challenges and potential solutions to this problem.
Privacy Professor Elana Zeide published a piece with CITRIS Policy Lab commenting on how artificial intelligence is displacing teacher labor, ways to deal with the benefits and risks of technology in the public sector, education and AI, and the use of AI in governments at local and state levels.

Menard Director Gus Hurwitz wrote an article exploring Dark Patterns, published in the North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology. Hurwitz explores the growing interest in “dark patterns”—digital design practices that influence user behavior in ways that may not align with users’ interests. The full article is available here.
Distinguished Fellow Professor Christal Sheppard Joins Naples Roundtable Amicus Committee, Diversity in Intellectual Property Law Committee. The Naples Roundtable is engaged in the advanced study of intellectual property law and policy and in fostering the exchange of ideas, viewpoints, and scholarly papers among leading jurists and practitioners in the intellectual property field.
On November 16th Gonzaga University hosted 'Regulating Addictive Technology: A Conversation with Kyle Langvardt' discussing habit-forming products that maximize users’ time on a device or app with the University of Nebraska professor. Langvardt is a First Amendment scholar who focuses on the Internet’s implications for free expression both as a matter of constitutional doctrine and as a practical reality. 
Cyberlaw Professor Justin Firestone published a paper entitled The Need for Soft Law to Regulate Synthetic Biology, which is available from the American Bar Association. Firestone is an Assistant Professor in the Raikes School of Computer Science and Management and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a distinguished fellow at the College of Law.

Center Executive Director Elsbeth Magilton has joined a Nuclear Command, Control and Communications Center’s (NC3) research initiative with the National Strategic Research Institute, under U.S. Strategic Command. The interdisciplinary team members including seven other university professors and researchers with backgrounds in engineering, computer science and public policy. 
New on The Record: student fellow Alan Duggar summarizes the second Cybersecurity Law & Policy Scholars Conference session, “Cybersecurity Law Policy Pedagogy.” 
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