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Stephen M. Maurer

Stephen M. Maurer is an adjunct professor at the University of
California’s Goldman School of Public Policy. Trained as a lawyer, he
helped to develop and finalize the International Association Synthetic
Biology’s Code of Conduct. Maurer is the editor and lead author of WMD
Terrorism: Science and Policy Choices
(MIT Press, 2009).