UNIVERSITY of NOTRE DAME
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Our Mission
The challenges we face will not be solved if scholars limit their research outlook to a single discipline.
The Notre Dame Journal on Emerging Technologies (JET) transforms the landscape of legal publications by bridging legal scholarship with that of science, policy, and ethics in the most groundbreaking innovations of the technological space. JET provides a truly interdisciplinary platform in which a variety of viewpoints on emerging technologies can be articulated, promoted, and assessed. JET showcases a network of ideas that extends beyond the imaginary lines that tend to limit academic scholarship.
our Core Values
JET Scholarship
Innovative
Interdisciplinary
Informative
Publications
JET is a student-run publication of the University of Notre Dame Law School covering legal, social, ethical, and technological issues associated with emerging technologies. JET publishes in a volume-style format with three issues released per year. Each volume focuses on a prominent area of emerging technologies with a new volume topic selected annually. Two issues per volume are devoted to the featured volume topic. In addition, JET invites the submission of manuscripts related to issues in emerging technologies outside the scope of the volume topic to be featured in the single general issue published annually.
Emerging Technologies
For a long time, a practicable definition of ‘emerging technologies’ escaped academia and led to considerable inconsistencies among scholarly works.1 Today, an emerging technology is more consensually described as a technology whose development, practical applications, or both are conceptualized but not yet fully realized. Hence, its political, social, and economic effects are not yet well-understood, and live issues exist regarding how it will insert into current regulatory schemes and societal norms. Furthermore, while emerging technologies are generally new, they also include older technologies whose potential remains relatively undeveloped.
Research has identified five common attributes of emerging technologies: (1) radical novelty, (2) relatively fast growth, (3) coherence, (4) prominent impact, and (5) uncertainty and ambiguity.2 JET applies these characteristics as a framework throughout the Journal’s article selection and publication process to maintain a superior level of quality in scholarship.
Featured Volume Topic
Emerging Technology
JET Blog
JET Blog publishes shorter, student-written pieces that are tailored toward a wider audience than JET’s official volume publications. These pieces are not limited to the featured volume topic; rather, JET invites submissions exploring the intersection of any emerging technology with an issue in law, science, policy, or ethics. JET Blog accepts and publishes manuscripts on a continuous basis throughout the year. Visit the submissions page to learn more about the Blog’s selection and editing guidelines.
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