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December 10, 2024 Feature

Remembering the 50 Past Chairs of the ABA SciTech Section and 20 Years of The SciTech Lawyer Magazine

Past Chairs of the ABA Science & Technology Law Section (1974–2024)

1974–1975 Weston Vernon, Jr.

1975–1976 Ronald A. May

1976–1977 Haley James Fromholz

1977–1978 William E. Zeiter

1978–1979 James F. Preston, Jr.

1979–1980 Susan Hubbell Nycum

1980–1981 Paul S. Hoffman

1981–1982 Arthur McKee Dula

1982–1983 Lee Loevinger

1983–1984 Richard M. McGonigal

1984–1985 Edward G. Fiorito

1985–1986 J. D. Fleming, Jr.

1986–1987 Peter D. Hutcheon

1987–1988 Robert L. Geltzer

1988–1989 Thomas D. Halket

1989–1990 Oliver Reed Smoot

1990–1991 Herbert Marks

1991–1992 Bertram Robert Cottine

1992–1993 Ellen J. Flannery

1993–1994 Joseph M. Potenza

1994–1995 Robert W. Barger

1995–1996 Michele C. Kane

1996–1997 Bert Black

1997–1998 Thomas G. Hermann

1998–1999 Scott F. Partridge

1999–2000 Thomas J. Smedinghoff

2000–2001 Bonnie E. Fought

2001–2002 Raymond L. Ocampo Jr.

2002–2003 William Sam Byassee

2003–2004 Heather D. Rafter

2004–2005 Ivan K. Fong

2005–2006 Richard L. Field

2006–2007 William Sloan Coats

2007–2008 Gilbert F. Whittemore

2008–2009 Ruth Hill Bro

2009–2010 Christine M. Grant

2010–2011 Stephen S. Wu

2011–2012 Eric Y. Drogin

2012–2013 Lucy L. Thomson

2013–2014 Hugh Butler Wellons

2014–2015 Michael Hawes

2015–2016 Cynthia H. Cwik

2016–2017 Eileen Smith Ewing

2017–2018 David Z. Bodenheimer

2018–2019 William B. Baker

2019–2020 Julie A. Fleming

2020–2021 Eric Y. Drogin

2021–2022 Ericka Watson2022–2023 Garth Jacobson

2023–2024 Laura Possessky

2024–2025 Joan R. M. Bullock

Past Issues of the SciTech Lawyer Magazine (2004–2024)

Summer 2004 Electronic Voting and the Law

Fall 2004 Information Privacy and Security in California

Winter 2005 E is for Evidence: Examining Recent E-Discovery Developments

Spring 2005 What If? The Birth of a Clone

Summer 2005 Anonymity in the Digital Age

Fall 2005 International Science and Technology Issues

Winter 2006 What to Look for in Nanotech Law

Spring 2006 Cyberthreats and the Nation’s Power Grid

Summer 2006 Managing Privacy Risks in an Information-Driven World

Fall 2006 Ethics, Science, and the Constitution

Winter 2007 Can DNA Bring International Criminals to Justice?

Spring 2007 Technology, Intellectual Property, and Human Experience

Summer 2007 Nanotechnology and the Global Marketplace

Fall 2007 Discovery: All Things Electronic

Winter 2008 Robots, The Human Brain, and the Law

Spring 2008 The Impact of Bioinformatics

Summer 2008 Frontiers in Digital Security

Fall 2008 The Challenges of Biotechnology

Winter 2009 Stopping the Collision: The Fight Over the Large Hadron Collider

Spring 2009 Medicine and Money: Are Clinical Trials Being Compromised?

Summer 2009 Nanotechnology: Matters Small and Large

Fall 2009 Global Perspectives: What Matters Abroad

Winter 2010 Technological Touchpoints

Spring 2010 Year One Under Obama: Select Aspects of Science and Policy

Summer 2010 Virtual Law: Through the Looking Glass Part 1

Fall 2010 Virtual Law: Into the Rabbit Hole Part 2

Winter 2011 How the Earth Is Changing Environmental Law

Spring 2011 Twenty-First Century Public Health

Summer 2011 The Genes Are out of the Bottle: DNA Opens New Legal Frontiers

Fall 2011 The Challenges of Online Authentication, from Evidence to Identity

Winter 2012 Staking Out the Boundaries of Cybersecurity’s Legal Framework: Is It an Ecosystem?

Spring 2012 The Growing Effects of Social Networking and the Law

Summer 2012 Space Law Demystified

Fall 2012 GMOs, Gene Patents & Bioprospecting

Winter/Spring The Mobile 2013 Transformation

Summer 2013 Going Too Fast? Privacy and Security Challenges in a Mobile World

Fall 2013 Can the Courts Understand Science?

Winter 2014 Eyes Everywhere: The Espionage Issue

Spring 2014 Doctor Where? The Implications of Telemedicine

Summer 2014 In Focus: Section Committees

Fall 2014 Encouraging Innovation

Winter 2015 Brain Freeze: Legal Thoughts on Neuroscience

Spring 2015 Biosimilars

Summer 2015 Drones on the Horizon! Get Ready for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Fall 2015 Air & Space & Things That Fly

Winter 2016 Big Data, Big Deal

Spring 2016 Internet of Things

Summer 2016 Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Fall 2016 Gene Editing

Winter 2017 The Future Is Now: Technological Changes to the Workplace

Spring 2017 Marijuana llegalization

Summer 2017 Future Focus for Forensic Science

Fall 2017 Algorithms: In Control?

Winter 2018 Art Law

Spring 2018 Policy Challenges Facing Cybersecurity in the IoT and Beyond

Summer 2018 Self-Driving Cars

Fall 2018 Precision Medicine

Winter 2019 Food Law

Spring 2019 Data, Privacy, and Security: New Challenges at the Intersection

Summer 2019 The Circular Economy

Fall 2019 Nanotechnology

Winter 2020 Mobility

Spring 2020 Big Data and Cloud Computing

Summer 2020 Forensics

Fall 2020 AI and Healthcare

Winter 2021 Adapting to Change

Spring 2021 Self-Driving Vehicles: Air, Land, and Sea

Summer 2021 Mitigating Risks During and After the Pandemic

Fall 2021 Climate Change

Winter 2022 The Smart City in the Post- COVID-19 Era

Spring 2022 Quantum Computing

Summer 2022 SciTech Law Hot Topics

Fall 2022 Unintended Consequences

Winter 2023 Web 3.0/Web3: Semantic, Decentralized, or Metaverse?

Spring 2023 Misinformation Overload

Summer 2023 The Blockchain Revolution in Crypto and Beyond

Fall 2023 Focus on aa Climate Change

Winter 2024 Video Evidence

Spring 2024 Artificial Intelligence

Summer 2024 Forensic Science

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