A student-run interdisciplinary law journal at Notre Dame Law School.
The challenges we face will not be solved if scholars limit their research outlook to a single discipline.
JET Editorial Mission
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Our Mission
The Notre Dame Journal on Emerging Technologies 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 frontier.
JET provides a truly interdisciplinary platform in which a variety of viewpoints on emerging technologies can be articulated, promoted, and assessed. The Journal showcases a network of ideas that extends beyond the imagination of any single discipline.
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How We Publish
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.
The Journal 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 dedicated to the 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.
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What is an Emerging Technology?
For a long time, a practicable definition of "emerging technologies" escaped academia and led to considerable inconsistencies among scholarly works.
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 remain unestablished and difficult to assess.
Furthermore, while emerging technologies are generally new, they also include older technologies whose potential remains relatively undeveloped.
