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).

This book considers the existing scientific, legal, and political regulatory regimes that pertain to gene editing. By exploring such a range of potential applications of gene editing - not only biomedical, but also agricultural and ecological - the book reveals numerous crossovers and disjunctions between approaches to the human and the nonhuman.

Introduction

Editing the Environment: Emerging Issues in Genetics and the Law

IRUS BRAVERMAN

PART I Conserving Nature, Driving Evolution

1 Rules for Sculpting Ecosystems: Gene Drives and Responsive Science

KEVIN M. ESVELT

2 Gene Drives and Species Conservation: An Ethical Analysis

RONALD SANDLER

3 Gene Drives, Nature, Governance: An Ethnographic Perspective

IRUS BRAVERMAN

PART II Technologies of Governance

4 Laws of Containment: Control Without Limits in the New Biology

J. BENJAMIN HURLBUT

5 Vigilante Environmentalism: Are Gene Drives Changing How We Value and Govern Ecosystems?

TODD KUIKEN

6 Controlling Our "Nature": Gene Editing in Law and in the Arts

LORI ANDREWS

PART III Human-Nonhuman Boundaries, Worked and Reworked

7 Sex, Lies, and Genetic Engineering: Why We Must (But Won't) Ban Human Embryo Modification

STUART A. NEWMAN

8 Domestic Dogs, Gene Repair, and the "One Health" Approach

ALEXANDER J. TRAVIS

9 Digital Enchantment: Life and the Future of Gene Editing

GAYMON BENNETT

Afterword

Governing Gene Editing: A Constitutional Conversation

STEPHEN HILGARTNER