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Legal AI, creative informatics, and the quest for executable justice, A new approach to visualizing legal argumentation, Copyright and the law and ethics of machine co-production., Technology and the future of inheritance law. Prof. Burkhard Schafer is the chair of Computational Legal Theory at the University of Edinburgh. His main field of interest is the interaction between law, science, and computer technology from comparative and legal-theoretical perspectives. His research encompasses both the problems that technology and technological change pose to the law – technology law – and the use of technology in the justice system and the legal services industry – legal informatics.

Traffic fatality rate: Why US is the worst among developed countries, Zurich: Where people are welcome and cars are not, The broken algorithm that poisoned American transportation, and Burying past planning mistakes in American cities. Prof. Norman Garrick is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Garrick is also a former member of the national board of The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU). He specializes in the planning and design of urban transportation systems, including transit, streets, street networks, parking, bicycle, and pedestrian facilities. Dr. Garrick is the recipient of the Transportation Research Board’s Award for Best Research Paper in policy and organization and is a Fulbright Fellow.

Impulsive choice-making,  Probability matching decisions, Structural comparisons in consumer choice, Naturalistic and Lab-based decision-making,  and Strategies for Economic Development Outside of Urban Corridors Prof. Art Markman, who is a Professor of Psychology, Human Dimensions of Organizations, and Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin and Executive Director of the IC2 Institute. He has written over 150 scholarly papers on topics including reasoning, decision making, and motivation. He is the author of several books including Smart Thinking, Smart Change, Brain Briefs, and Bring Your Brain to Work.

A Policy Index to Create a Sustainable, Shared-Prosperity Economy, and Buddhist Economics: an enlightened approach to the dismal science Prof. Clair Brown is a Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley. Clair has published research on many aspects of inequality and sustainability. Her book Buddhist Economics: An enlightened approach to the dismal science provides an economic framework that integrates global sustainability, shared prosperity, and care for the human spirit. Her research team created the Sustainable, Share-Prosperity Index (SSPI). Clair is a volunteer with 350 Bay Area Action, where she co-chairs the Legislative Committee to work on passing key climate justice bills in California.

Towards a Theory of the Aesthetic Properties of Persons, Glamour as an Aesthetic Property of Persons, Objective Beauty, and  Psychoanalysis, Imagination, and Imaginative Resistance Prof. Carol Gould is a Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University, where she teaches primarily Aesthetics, Philosophy of Psychiatry, and Ancient Greek Philosophy, areas in which she publishes widely. Many of her recent publications concern the relation between aesthetics, ethics, and personhood. She is currently completing a book manuscript on True Glamour,  an unexplored topic in philosophy that stands at the intersection of Aesthetics, Ethics, and Philosophy of Psychiatry.

A blueprint for change in Management Education, Turnover and Retention Research, and Better ways to predict who is going to quit. Prof. Brooks Holtom is a Professor of Management at Georgetown University. His research focuses on how organizations acquire, develop, and retain human and social capital. He received the Human Resource Management Scholarly Achievement Award. He has performed research in or served as a consultant to many organizations.

Crowdsourcing and homeland security, Top-level domain interceptor,  The difficulty of defining metrics and Arrow's theorem, and modeling and battling COVID-19 Prof. George Markowsky is a Professor and former Chair of Computer Science at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, where he runs the Cyber Society Lab. He was Chair and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maine, a Visiting Scholar at the Rochester Institute of Technology, a Visiting Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Manager of Special Projects in the Computer Science Department at IBM's Watson Research Center. His research interests are theoretical methods in computer science and the impact of computers on society.

Whole Community Health, Pilot project by Kenan Charitable Trust in two North Carolina counties - 6 interconnected pillars of opportunity: Economic stability, Education, Healthy food, High-quality healthcare, Social integration, and safe physical environment. Prof.  Jeanne Milliken Bonds is a Professor of the Practice, Impact Investment, and Sustainable Finance at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Jeanne is a former Leader in Regional Community Development for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. In her previous role, she provided leadership for strategic stakeholder collaboration and community-level solutions, focusing on low- and moderate-income and underserved communities in support of the Federal Reserve System’s Community Development function.

Design Theory: A foundation of a new paradigm for design science and engineering, Shared Memory in Design: A Unifying Theme for Research and Practice, Dialogues, Diversity, and Design Prof. Eswaran Subrahmanian is a Research Professor in the Engineering Research Accelerator and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. His research in design was inspired by the tradition of the study of Design at CMU since the early 1970s. His research interests are Design theory, Collaborative design information systems, design education,  design and society, and mathematical foundation for information modeling for design. He is the Co-chair of the Special Interest Group of Design Theory of the Design Society, Distinguished Scientist of the ACM, and Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Human and technical cyber risks, Prioritizing strategic risks, Effect-centric approach to risk in nuclear power plants, A systems approach to quantifying and managing risk in critical infrastructure. Dr. Charles Harry who is the director of operations at the Maryland Global Initiative in Cybersecurity (MaGIC), an associate research professor in the School of Public Policy, at the University of Maryland and a senior research associate at the Center for International Security Studies at Maryland. He is also part of the US Chamber of Commerce’s Cyber Advisory Panel.