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Professor I. Glenn Cohen, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School;
Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology &
Bioethics
Glenn Cohen is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Director of the
Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics. He is
one of the world's leading experts on the intersection of bioethics and the law, as
well as health law. He was the youngest professor on the faculty at Harvard Law
School both when he joined the faculty in 2008 (at age 29) and when he was
tenured as a full professor in 2013 (at age 34). His current research projects relate
to health information technologies, mobile health, reproductive technology,
research ethics, rationing in law and medicine, health policy, FDA law and medical
tourism. He is the author of more than 70 articles and chapters and his awardwinning
work has appeared in leading legal medical, bioethics, and public health
journals. Prior to becoming a professor he served as a law clerk to Judge Michael
Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and as a lawyer for U.S.
Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, where he handled litigation
in the Courts of Appeals and (in conjunction with the Solicitor General’s Office)
in the U.S. Supreme Court. In his spare time, he still litigates, most recently having
authored an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court for leading gene scientist Eric
Lander in Association of Molecular Pathology v. Myriad, concerning whether human
genes are patent eligible subject matter, a brief that was extensively discussed by
the Justices at oral argument.
Professor Henry T. Greely, Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson
Professor of Law and Professor, by courtesy, of Genetics, Stanford
University; Director, Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences
Hank Greely is the Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law and
Professor, by courtesy, of Genetics at Stanford University. He specializes in
ethical, legal, and social issues arising from advances in the biosciences,
particularly from genetics, neuroscience, and human stem cell research. He
directs the Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences and the Stanford
Program on Neuroscience in Society; chairs the California Advisory Committee
on Human Stem Cell Research; and serves on the Neuroscience Forum of the
Institute of Medicine, the Advisory Council for the National Institute for General
Medical Sciences of NIH, the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law of
the National Academy of Sciences, and the NIH Multi-Council Working Group
on the BRAIN Initiative. He was elected a fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science in 2007. He graduated from Stanford in 1974
and from Yale Law School in 1977. He served as a law clerk for Judge John Minor
Wisdom on the United States Court of Appeals and for Justice Potter Stewart of
the United States Supreme Court. After working during the Carter
Administration in the Departments of Defense and Energy, he entered private
practice in Los Angeles in 1981 as a litigator with the law firm of Tuttle & Taylor,
Inc. He began teaching at Stanford in 1985.
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