Nita Farahany is the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law and Philosophy at Duke University and founding director of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society. A scholar on law and ethics of emerging technologies, Farahany recently authored “The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology.” She is a frequent commentator for national media and speaker at TED, Aspen Ideas Festival, World Economic Forum and judicial conferences worldwide. She is a member of the American Law Institute, fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, past president of the International Neuroethics Society and ELSI advisor to the NIH Brain Initiative, among other positions, and chairs the Study Committee on Mental Privacy, Neural and Cognitive Biometric Data for the Uniform Law Commission. Farahany is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law and the Biosciences.
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