CONVERGING TECHNOLOGIES BAR ASSOCIATION

Organizational Sections

Center on Law, Ethics and Judicial Affairs:

To address the legal, ethical, judicial and cross-disciplinary professional challenges of convergent technologies.

International Law & Foreign Policy Center

To foster a global economic dialogue to explore current and potentially new protocols and treaties of international competitiveness and cooperativeness regarding the research and development, safety, security, health, and legislation of converging technologies, while addressing the cross-jurisdictional and international economic policies.

Education Center:

To provide interdisciplinary educational outreach programs on a pro-bono basis to consumer groups, public and private educational institutions.

Communication Center:

To create a common interdisciplinary lexicon between and among scientists, engineers and the legal community by developing a multidisciplinary communication systems, or trading zones database with cross references.

Action Nerve Center:

To develop scenarios, structured forecasting, trends analysis, and implementation tools necessary for the incorporation of anticipatory and pre-emptive measures addressing the broad legal and societal implications of converging technologies.

Divisions

Institute of Legal Convergence:

To establish a duly licensed and accredited educational institute to train and develop certified legal experts in the interdisciplinary areas of NBIC.

New Renaissance Legal Laboratory:

To establish entrepreneur networks, assist small and minority-owned emerging and converging technologies businesses by enabling innovation of new discoveries and inventions from lab to market through low-cost legal services, and empowering mid-sized and large corporations with technology transfer and commercialization of new products and lines, while training scientists and engineers on business law and skills, encouraging activities that cross traditional boundaries and borders, and promoting new multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary initiatives and markets.

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