Gene Editing, Law, and the Environment

Irus Braverman is Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Geography at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. She is author of Planted Flags: Trees, Land, and Law in Israel Palestine (2009), Zooland: The Institution of Captivity (2012), and Wild Life: The Institution of Nature (2015), and co-editor of The Expanding Spaces of Law: A Timely Legal Geography (2014) and Animals, Biopolitics, Law: Lively Legalities (2016).

• IntroductionEditing the Environment: Emerging Issues in Genetics and the LawIRUS BRAVERMAN PART I Conserving Nature, Driving Evolution1 Rules for Sculpting Ecosystems: Gene Drives and Responsive Science KEVIN M. ESVELT 2 Gene Drives and Species Conservation: An Ethical AnalysisRONALD SANDLER 3 Gene Drives, Nature, Governance: An Ethnographic PerspectiveIRUS BRAVERMAN PART II Technologies of Governance4 Laws of Containment: Control Without Limits in the New BiologyJ. BENJAMIN HURLBUT 5 Vigilante Environmentalism: Are Gene Drives Changing How We Value and Govern Ecosystems? TODD KUIKEN6 Controlling Our "Nature": Gene Editing in Law and in the ArtsLORI ANDREWSPART III Human-Nonhuman Boundaries, Worked and Reworked7 Sex, Lies, and Genetic Engineering: Why We Must (But Won’t) Ban Human Embryo ModificationSTUART A. NEWMAN8 Domestic Dogs, Gene Repair, and the "One Health" ApproachALEXANDER J. TRAVIS9 Digital Enchantment: Life and the Future of Gene EditingGAYMON BENNETTAfterwordGoverning Gene Editing: A Constitutional ConversationSTEPHEN HILGARTNER

Braverman and the impressive group of authors she assembled lead us through provocative research at the frontiers of biotechnology. This cutting-edge collection is sure to stimulate urgent conversations at the intersection of science and society, which are much needed at this time of awesome and challenging discoveries. James P. CollinsVirginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment, Arizona State UniversityWith this heady mix of essays by prominent authors from multiple disciplines, editor Irus Braverman accomplishes the nearly impossible: she orchestrates a real-time "constitutional conversation" on the future of the human, as rapidly evolving biological techniques seem to empower humanity to control its own evolution.Sheila Jasanoff Director, Program on Science, Technology and Society, Harvard Kennedy SchoolBraverman's superb volume on gene editing provides thought-provoking, broad perspectives from some of the most significant scholars, scientists, ethicists, and environmentalists in their fields. Given the imminence of the dispersal of new gene editing technologies like CRISPR, this masterful collection of probing essays is both timely and important. Braverman's eye for structure, voice, and perspective sets the stage for some of the most difficult legal and ethical issues of gene editing that society will be debating for years to come. Jacob S. Sherkow, New York Law SchoolAffiliated Faculty, Innovation Center for Law and Technology