Special thank you to the Graduate Blockchain Society at McCombs for helping JOLTT make this panel happen! See Gordon Bowman, cohost of this event for more information. ************** Come join us for a riveting discussion of blockchains, the blockchain business model, and the legal ramifications surrounding blockchain technology. The panel will be held on 2/13/2018 at 12 pm in TNH 2.140 of the UT Law School. JOLTT Trivia Night at Posse East to follow at 8 pm (https://www.facebook.com/tyler.oubre.5/posts/1670108703083294). For the panel we’ve assembled Mira Ganor, Brian Hall, and Brian Konradi to help lead this discussion. Mira Ganor Mira Ganor joined…
The Journal of Law and Technology at Texas (JOLTT – http://jolttx.com/) is proud to present the panel Unwarranted Surveillance, featuring Shahid Buttar of Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck of The UT School of Law. Shahid will be visiting Austin as a guest of EFF-Austin, a long-time local affinity group of EFF and a member of their Electronic Frontier Alliance (EFA). Congress recently reauthorized, extended, and expanded NSA surveillance without a judicial warrant requirement to restrain documented (and potentially recurring) abuses. Why does domestic surveillance prompt concerns from across the political spectrum? How does it relate…
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Congrats to the new JOLTT Executive Board for the 2017-18 school year! Editor-in-Chief: Tyler Oubre Web Editor-in-Chief: Brendon Liam Walsh Assistant EIC: Sam Higginbotham VP Content Development: Justin Laden Directors of Content Development: Sam Higginbotham, Zeyi Lin, Brendon Liam Walsh, Sarah Hampton Tech Director: Zeyi Lin VP Membership: Sam Higginbotham Directors of Membership: Zeyi Lin, Hayley Ostrin, Sarah Hampton VP Outreach: Hayley Ostrin (Grad & Legal), Zeyi Lin (Undergrad & Tech) Directors of Outreach: Brendon Walsh, Sam Higginbotham, Sarah Hampton
Automating Surgery: The Law of Autonomous Surgical Robots by David Britton* Autonomous surgical robots will soon operate on patients. Robots will use sensors to measure patients’ physiology and pathologies, use that information to plan how to complete the necessary surgical actions, and execute those plans by physically moving surgical tools–all without direct human control. These emerging surgical robots pose new questions for the legal and regulatory regimes surrounding medical devices and the practice of medicine. This paper builds on a growing body of legal scholarship about Robot Law to examine the legally-disruptive potential of robots in surgery. The United States…