UPDATE
GENETICS PROJECT CALLS FOR MORE PUBLIC AND MEDICAL UNDERSTANDING
The benefits of genetic testing for health outweigh the potential harms but lack of understanding could hamper progress, the Human Genome Research Project says. The international, three year project, commissioned by the New Zealand Law Foundation and based at the University of Otago, researches and reports on issues emerging in science that have implications for all society. The ground-breaking project launched its second report at Parliament on 24 October. Click here for more information. For a link to the Project - Click here.
LAW FOUNDATION ENDOWS A CHAIR AT OTAGO UNIVERSITY
In a first for New Zealand, the Law Foundation has endowed a new Chair in Emerging Technologies in the Law Faculty at Otago University. The Chair will lead the Centre for Law and Policy in Emerging Technologies guiding research that looks into the future and scans the horizon for emerging technologies that are likely to create significant changes and raise potential anxiety in society. Click here for more information.
The first book of the 2004 NZ Law Foundation International Research Fellow Dr Alex Conte, entitled
Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights in New Zealand, has recently been published by the NZ Law Foundation, ISBN 0-473-11205-1.
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