Walter G. Johnson

Breakthrough or Breakaway Innovation? | Science and Technology Law Review

Pleased to share my job talk paper "Breakthrough or Breakaway Innovation?" is now out. It argues expedited regulatory review and liability immunity are a bad combination of policy tools, using the US FDA's Breakthrough Devices Program as a case study.

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Rights experimentalism under uncertainty: transnational law and human rights for neurotechnologies Abstract. This article argues that the emergence of ostensibly new human rights norms and regimes can be better understood through closer attention to tran

A nice way to start the year, with my piece in the Human Rights Law Review just out. It explores how new human rights can emerge in response to innovation and takes lessons about how this went well (or didn't) in neurotech.

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