ANITA L. ALLEN
Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy
CONTACT INFORMATION:
University of Pennsylvania Law School 3400 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19041 Office: (215) 898-9035; cell: (610) 716-7603 Fax: (215) 573-2025; Home fax: (610) 896-7508 E-mail: [email protected].
AREAS OF INTEREST AND SPECIALIZATION:
Privacy, Intimacy, and Personal Accountability; Ethics, Bioethics; Personal Injury Law; Moral, Social and Political Philosophy; Legal Philosophy; Feminist Philosophy and Legal Theory; Race Policy; Philosophy of the Family; Reproductive Rights
EDUCATION:
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, J.D., 1981-84 · Mark DeWolfe Howe Fellowship, 1984 · American Association of University Women Fellow, 1983 · Teaching Fellow, in philosophy and political theory, Harvard College, 1981-1984 · Danforth Center Certificate of Distinction in Undergraduate Teaching, 1984
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ph.D., M.A., Philosophy, 1974-79 · Ford Foundation Fellow, 1974-1978 · Teaching Fellow, in ethics, political theory, and medical humanities , 1975-78 · Dissertation, “Rights, Children and Education,” Richard Brandt, Chair
NEW COLLEGE, Sarasota, Florida, B.A., Philosophy, Classics and Literature, 1970-74 · Senior Thesis, “Rudolf Carnap and the Possibility of Metaphysics”
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT:
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law (2004- present); Professor of Law and Philosophy (1998-present); Senior Fellow, Bioethics Department, School of Medicine, 2005-present.
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Service: Chair, Entry-level Faculty Appointments Committee; Tenure and Promotions Committee; Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility; Clerkship Committee; Ad hoc Faculty Workshop Co-convener; Affirmative Action Committee; Committee on Manufacturing Responsibility; Provost’s Research Council, Bioethics Center Advisory Committee; Women’s Studies Program Advisory Committee; Ad Hoc Committee on Faculty Voting; University Faculty Senate; Law School Affirmative Action Officer; University Committee to Reappoint the Law School Dean
Courses and Seminars: Privacy Law; Morality and Mental Health; Law, Justice and Morality; Liberalism v. Republicanism; Bioethics and the Law; Constitutional Law; Legal Ethics; Torts and Compensation; Law and Ethics of Human Reproduction; Rule of Law Seminar; Law and Literature; Jurisprudence; Legal Positivism
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER, 1987-1998, Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH LAW SCHOOL, 1985-87, Assistant Professor of Law
CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY, 1978-1981, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA LAW SCHOOL, Visiting Professor, August 2005
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Visiting Professor, Fall 2003
YALE LAW SCHOOL, Visiting Professor, 2001-2002
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Visiting Professor, 1990-91
VILLANOVA LAW SCHOOL, Reuschlein Chair, Fall 1998
DISTINQUISHED PROFESSORSHIPS:
“Robert Henry Levi and Ryda Hecht Levi Visiting Professorship in Bioethics and Public Policy,” Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, February 6-10 2007
Stice Visiting Professor, University of Washington, Department of Philosophy, October 23-27, 2006
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Hofstra Law School, February 2006
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FELLOWSHIPS Fellow, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University, 2003-2004
Fellow, University of Southern California Center for Communications Law and Policy, July 2000
Alain Locke Excellence Award in Legal Philosophy, Howard University, 1999 William and Mary Law School, Distinguished Visiting Lee Fellow, February 4-7, 1997
American Association of University Women Fellowship, 1983-1984
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1993
Ford Foundation Fellowship, 1974-1978
LEGAL AND RELATED EMPLOYMENT:
CONSULTANT, Privacy Policy, Law and Ethics, since 1990
STATE BAR ADMISSIONS · State of New York, since 1985 · Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, since 1985
GASTON SNOW & ELY BARTLETT, Boston, 1982, Summer Associate, Banking
MILBANK, TWEED, HADLEY & MCCLOY, New York, 1983, Summer Associate, Banking and Litigation
CRAVATH, SWAINE & MOORE, NEW YORK, 1984-85, Associate, Litigation
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYMENT:
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES IPA , 1980-81, Associate Program Director, Summer Seminars in the Humanities for Lawyers, Judges and Law Professors; Summer Seminars in the Humanities for Physicians, Nurses, and Other Health Care Professionals and Teachers
3 SELECTED PAST AND PRESENT ACTIVITIES:
ASSOCIATION FOR PRACTICAL AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS, Executive Committee, 2005-present
ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LAW CULTURE AND THE HUMANITIES, Working Group, 1998-2002; Treasurer, 2003-2004.
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS (AALS), Executive Committee, ‘00-03 Jurisprudence Section, 1992 - 1995, Chair and Executive Committee Member; Defamation and Privacy Section, 1993-1995, Chair and Executive Committee Member; Section on Women in Legal Education, 1990-92, Executive Committee; Served on Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure, 1996; "Beyond Tokenism" Mini-Workshop Planning Committee, 1992; Nominations Committee, 1992
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, Board Member, Greater Pittsburgh Chapter, 1985-87; Privacy Committee, National ACLU, 1995
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS (AAUP), 1989-01. Served on Litigation Committee, 1989-90; Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Freedom of Expression and Freedom from Harassment, 1990-91; Committee A, 1998-01
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN, Legal Advisory Board, 1992-94
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION (APA). Served on Eastern Division Program Committee, 1992; Committee on the Status of Women, 1994, 1983; Program Committee Advisory Committee, 1993, 1998-2000
BAZELON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH LAW, Board member, 2002-2006
BIOETHICS CENTER, Faculty Advisory Board, University of Pennsylvania, 1998- 2001; Fellow, since 2004
BRYN MAWR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Member and Outreach Council, 2003-
4 2005; Personnel Committee, 2004; Ordained Elder, 2006
ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER, Board of Advisors, 1999-2006; Board of Directors, 2006-present
ETHICS, Editorial Board, 1998-2001
FAMILY PLANNING COUNCIL, Philadelphia, Board of Directors 2002-2006; and IRB, 2004-present
HASTINGS CENTER, Fellow, since 2005
HYPATIA, Advisory Board, 2000-2002
JOURNAL OF LAW, MEDICINE AND ETHICS, EDITORIAL BOARD, since 2004
LEGAL THEORY, BOARD OF ADVISORS, 1994-2002
NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH, 1994- 1996 · and the NIH/DOE ELSI Working Group
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, NSTITUTE OF MEDICINE · Served on Committee on Legal and Ethical Issues Relating to the Inclusion of Women in Clinical Studies, 1993
NATIONAL ASOCIATION OF WOMEN LAWYERS, Supreme Court Candidate Evaluation Committee, 2005-6
NEW COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA, 1990-1994, Board of Directors
PHILOSOPHICAL FORUM, Board of Advisors, 1991-1998
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGT0N, Chair of Board and Member, 1992-1996
5 WEPAC, West Philadelphia Alliance for Children, Board of Director and Vice President, 2004-present
WOMEN’S MEDICAL FUND, Board of Directors, 2005-2006
SELECTED FACULTY RESEARCH WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS:
American University Law School; Boston University Law School; Columbia University Law School; Duke University School of Law; Drake University Law School; Fordham Law School; Harvard Law School; Harvard University, Center for Literary and Cultural Studies; Northeastern Law School; Stanford University, Department of Philosophy; University of Miami Law School; University of Michigan Law School; University of Minnesota Law School; University of North Carolina, Department of Philosophy; University of Southern California Law School; University of Toronto Law School, University of Washington; William and Mary Law School; Northeastern Law School, Yale Law School.
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED:
“Debating Democracy’s Discontent,” Georgetown University 1998, with Mitt Regan
“Legal Liability of Bioethicists,” University of Pennsylvania 2001, with Art Caplan
MEDIA EXPERIENCE
Television :
MSNBC, commentator and panelist, “The Ethical Edge” 2005-2006
Interviews on: ABC Nightline; CBS News; CBS This Morning; Cable Network News (CNN); CNN Burden of Proof; Good Morning America; Face the Nation; 60 Minutes; 20/20; CN8, “Its Your Call with Lynne Doyle”; Fred Friendly Seminars on Ethics, Nanotechnology; PBS Special on Constitutional Law; others.
Radio
Interviews: NPR Talk of the Nation; Odyssey Public Radio; Voice of America; Pacifica Radio; “Radio Times,” WHYY, Philadelphia; dozens of others
Newspapers
Monthly column: The Moralist, Newark Star Ledger
6 Profiles or Quotes: New York Daily News, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor; Baltimore Sun; Dallas Daily News; Los Angeles Times; Mother Jones; many others
Book, Magazine Profiles:
George Yancy, African American Philosophers: 17 Conversations (Routledge, 1998); Ellis Cose, Rage of a Privileged Class (New York: Harper Perennial, 1995); Sydney, Australia Morning Herald; Jet Magazine; Ebony Man Magazine
PUBLICATIONS:
Books in Progress: After Privacy, Oxford University Press; Insanely Good, The Moral Lives of the Mentally Ill, Blackwell Press.
1. BOOKS
st The New Ethics: A Guided Tour of the 21 Century Moral Landscape, (Miramax Books, 2004).
Why Privacy Isn’t Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability, (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003).
Privacy Law, Richard Turkington and Anita L. Allen (West Pub. Co., 1999; 2d ed. 2002). · Chinese Edition, 2004.
Debating Democracy’s Discontent, ed. Anita L. Allen and Milton Regan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).
Uneasy Access: Privacy for Women in a Free Society (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, l988). . • Chapter 3 revised and reprinted as “Privacy at Home: The Two Fold Problem,” in Nancy Hirshmann and Christine Di Stefano, ed. Revisioning the Political: Feminist Reconstructions of Traditional Concepts in Western Political Theory (Westview, Boulder, Co: 1996), 193-212. . • Chapter 4 reprinted as “Privacy and Reproductive Liberty,” in Dana
7 Bushnell, ed., Nagging Questions: Feminist Ethics in Everyday Life (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1995), 193240.
2. BOOK CHAPTERS
“What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said,” in Rewriting Roe v. Wade, ( NYU Press, 2005), ed. Jack Balkin.
“Why Journalists Can’t Protect Privacy,” in Journalism and the Debate Over Privacy ed. Craig LaMay (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003).
“Open Adoption is not for Everyone,” in Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays (Cornell University Press, 2004) eds. Sally Haslinger and Charlotte Witt.
“Contractarian Justifications of Slavery,” with Thaddeus Pope, in Tommy Lott and John Pittmann, eds. A Blackwell Companion to African American Philosophy (Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell, 2002), pp. 125-132.
“Ethno-racial Diversity,” Nomos, 2002
Privacy and Law,” in Privacies: Philosophical Evaluations., ed. by Beate Roessler (Palto Alto: Stanford University Press, 2003).
“Interracial Marriage: Folk Ethics in Contemporary Philosophy,” in Women of Color and Philosophy, ed. by Naomi Zack, (Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers, 2000), pp. 182-206.
“Confronting Moral Theories: Gewirth in Context,” Gewirth: Critical Essays on Action, Rationality and Community, edited by Michael Boylan (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999).
“Affirmative Action: Moral Success and Political Failure” (in eds. Erna Appelt and Monica Jarosch, Combating Racial Discrimination: Affirmative Action as a Model for Europe? (London: Berg Publishers, 1999), 23-40.
“Genetic Privacy: Emerging Concepts and Values,” in Genetic Secrets: Protecting Privacy and Confidentiality in the Genetic Era (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997) ed. Mark Rothstein, pp. 31-59.
"The Jurispolitics of Privacy," in Reconstructing Political Theory (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1996), eds. Uma Narayan and Mary Lyndon Shanley, 68-83.
“Forgetting Yourself," in Diana Meyers, ed. Feminists Rethink the Self (Boulder: Westview, 1996), 104-123.
8 "Moral Multiculturalism, Childbearing, and AIDS," in Ruth Faden and Nancy Kass eds., HIV, AIDS, and Childbearing: Public Policy, Private Lives (New York: Oxford University, 1996) 367 - 407.
“Legal Issues in Non-Voluntary HIV Testing," in AIDS and the Next Generation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), eds. Ruth Faden et al., 166-200.
"The Half-Life of Integration," in Stephen Macedo, ed., Reassessing the Sixties: Debating the Political and Cultural Legacy (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996), 207-227. · Excerpt reprinted in ed., Laurel Holliday, Children of the Dream: Our Own Stories of Growing Up Black in America (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999).
"Legal Rights for Poor Blacks," in William Lawson, ed. The Underclass Question (Temple University Press, 1992), 117-139.
"Newsmagazines and the Black Agenda," with Dr. Jack Daniel, in G. Smitherman- Donaldson and Teun A. Van Dijk, eds. Discrimination and Discourse (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, l988), 23-45.
“Women and their Privacy: What is at Stake?” Carol Gould in, ed. Beyond Domination (Totowa, NJ.: Rowman and Allanheld, 1983), pp. 233-249. · Reprinted in Key Concepts in Critical Theory, ed. By Carol Gould (New Jersey: Humanities Press, (1997) pp. 417- 424.
“Against Drug Use,” in Essays in Honor of Bernard Boxhill, ed. by Tommy Lott (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003).
3. LAW REVIEW ARTICLES
“Moralizing in Public,” __ Hofstra Law Review__ (2006).
“Race, Face and Rawls,” 72 Fordham Law Review 1677 (2004).
“Privacy Isn’t Everything: Accountability as a Personal and Social Good,” 54 Alabama Law Review 1375 (2003).” (Reprinted in Adam Moore, Information Ethics: Privacy, Property, and Power -- University of Washington Press)
“Minor Distractions: Children, Privacy and E- Commerce,” Houston Law Review 38 (2001):751-756.
“Gender and Privacy in Cyberspace,” Stanford Law Review 52 (May 2000): 1175-1200.
“Privacy as Data Control: Conceptual, Practical, and Moral Limits of the Paradigm, Connecticut Law Review 32 (2000): 861-875.
9 “The Social Contract in American Case Law,” University of Florida Law Review 51(1999): 2-40.
“The Wanted Gaze: Accountability for Privacy Invasions at Work,” Georgetown Law Review 89 (2001): 2013-2028.
“Privacy and the Public Official: Talking About Sex as a Dilemma for Democracy,” George Washington Law Review, 67, no. 5/6, (1999):1165-1182.
“Lying to Protect Privacy,” Villanova Law Review 44 (1999): 161-188. · Excerpts reprinted in The Private I: Privacy in a Public World, ed. Molly Peacock (St. Paul, Mi: Graywolf Press, 2001), pp. 130-144.
“Coercing Privacy,” William and Mary Law Review, 40 (1999):723-757.
Genetic Testing, Nature, and Trust,” Seton Hall Law Review , 27(1997): 887-892.
"The Proposed Equal Protection Fix for Abortion Law: Reflections on Citizenship, Gender and the Constitution," Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 18 (1995): 419-455. • Revised and Reprinted in Uma Narayan and Julia Bartkowiak, eds., Having and Raising Children: Unconventional Families, Hard Choices, and the Social Good (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999), 119-136.
"Cross-Cultural Commerce in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice," with Michael Seidl, American University Journal of International Law and Politics 10 (1995): 837.
“Autonomy’s Magic Wand: Abortion Law and Constitutional Interpretation,” Boston University Law Review, 72, no. 4 (1992):693-698. With Erin Mack, "How Privacy Got Its Gender," Northern Illinois Law Review 10 (199l): 441-478.
The Jurisprudence of Jane Eyre," Harvard Women's Law Journal 15 (Spring 1992): 173- 238).
“Hobbes, Formalism and Corrective Justice,” with Maria Morales, Iowa law Review ,77, no. 2 (January 1992): 713739.
"The Power of Private Facts," Case Western Reserve Law Review 41, no. 3 (1991):757- 767.
“Reading Afrocentric History," 9 Law and Inequality Journal 407, 1991.
"The Black Surrogate Mother," 8 Harvard Blackletter Journal 17-31 (1991). • Reprinted in D. Kelly-Weisberg, ed. Applications of Feminist Legal Theory to Women’s Lives: Perspectives on Sex, Violence, Work and Reproduction (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996). · “Slavery and Surrogacy,“ in Subjugation and Bondage: Critical Essays on Slavery and Social Philosophy, ed. Tommy Lott (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998), 229-254.
10 "How Privacy Got Its Gender," with Erin Mack, Northern Illinois Law Review 10 (199l):441
"Alive and Well: Religious Freedom in the Welfare State, Reply to Richard Epstein," William and Mary Law Review 31 (1990): 409.
"Surrogacy, Slavery, and Ownership of Life," Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 13(1990):139.
"On Being a Role Model," 6 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 22 (1990-91). . • Reprinted in Robin Kilson, ed., Black Women in the Academy: Defending Our Name 1894-1994 / Papers From the Conference (Carlson Publishing, 1995). . • Reprinted in David T. Goldberg, ed. Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader (Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1994). . • Excerpts reprinted in Adrien Wing, ed. Critical Race Feminism (New York: New York University Press, 1996), 81-87.
“The Federalist's Plain Meaning: Reply to Mark Tushnet," Southern California Law Review 61(1988): 1901.
"Privacy, Surrogacy and the Baby M Case," Georgetown Law Journal 76 (1988):1759- 1792.
"Taking Liberties: Privacy, Private Choice and Social Contract Theory," Cincinnati Law Review 56 (l987): 461491.
"Rethinking the Rule Against Corporate Privacy: Some Conceptual Quandaries for the Common Law," John Marshall Law Review , 20 (1987): 607- 639.
4. OTHER JOURNAL ARTICLES
“Student and Faculty Perspectives on Black Americas’ Success in the White Academy,” with Kevin Noble Maillard, Negro Educational Review 52 (July 2001).
"Do Children Have a Right to a Certain Identity?" Rechtstheorie, 15 (1993):109.
. • Reprinted in R. Ladd, Children's Rights Revisioned: Philosophical Readings (Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1996). . • Reprinted in Steven M. Cahn, ed. The Affirmative Action Debate (New York: Routledge, 1995). . • Reprinted in John P. Pittman, African-American Perspectives and Philosophical Traditions (New York: Routledge, 1997), 267-281.
"The Role Model Argument for Faculty Diversity," Philosophical Forum 26 (1992-3):
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“Where Liberalism Stands: A Critique of Andrew Altman's Critical Legal Studies: A Liberal Critique," Transition 53 (1991): 25
5. MAJOR ARTICLES IN SCHOLARLY REFERENCE BOOKS
“Privacy,” The Oxford Handbook of Practical Ethics (Oxford 2003), pp. 485-513.
“Legal Aspects of Abortion," in Stephen. G. Post, ed. Encyclopedia of Bioethics (New rd York: Macmillan Reference, 3 ed., 2003.
"Privacy in Health Care," in Stephen G. Post, ed. Encyclopedia of Bioethics (New York: rd MacMillan, 3 Ed, 2003.
“The Public Right to Know,” in The Encyclopedia of Ethical Issues in Politics and the Media, ed. Ruth Chadwick (San Diego, California: Academic Press, 2000): 251-262.
“Privacy” in A Companion to Feminist Philosophy, (Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell, 1998), eds., Iris Marion Young and Alison M. Jaggar, 456 -465.
"Legal Philosophy," in Stephen Gillers, ed. Looking at Law School (New York: New American Library, 4th ed, 1997), pp. 295-321.
Constitutional Privacy,” in A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory (Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell, 1996), ed., Dennis Patterson, 139-155.
"Affirmative Action,” in J. Salzman, D. Smith and C. West, eds. Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas (EAACH)Editor in Chief: Colin Palmer (New York: MacMillan, 1996 and 2005) pp. 31-40 .
· Excerpts in “Affirmative Action: Moral Success and Political Failure” (in eds. Erna Appelt and Monica Jarosch, Combating Racial Discrimination: Affirmative Action as a Model for Europe? (London: Berg Publishers, 1999), 23-40.
6. BOOK REVIEWS
“Reproducing (Mainly) White Feminist Norms,” Hypatia 12, no. 4, (March 1998): 202- 211. Review of Harley E. Flack and Edmund D. Pelligrino, African-American Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics, Ethics, January 1994.
12 Review of Howard McGary and Bill E. Lawson, Between Slavery and Freedom: Philosophy and American Slavery, Ethics, July 1994.
Review of David Garrow, Liberty and Sexuality, in The Christian Science Monitor, Monday, April 4, 1994.
"Tribe's Judicious Feminism," Stanford Law Review 44 (1991):179-203.
"Equality and Private Choice," 13 Nova Law Review 625 (1989).1 "Discrimination, Jobs and Politics," Journal of Law and Commerce 6 (l986): 227.
"Retribution, Justice, and Therapy," The Philosophical Review, July 1981.
7. MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS
Op. ed., Is Bodyworlds Ethical? Philadelphia Inquirer, March 2006
“Privacy,” World Book Encyclopedia (Chicago: World Book Publishing Co., 2003).
“Court Disables Disputed Legacy of Privacy Right," National Law Journal, Monday, August 13, 1990.
Response to Elizabeth Bartholet's, "Where Do Black Children Belong", 1 Reconstruction 1, no. 4 (1992): 46-48.
"In the Wake of the Abortion Decision: For Women, Some Solace, New Concern," Legal Times, July 6, 1992, p. 23.
Op. ed., "Why Does Bork Have Trouble with a Right to Privacy?" Chicago Tribune, September 29,1987, p. C15.
Op. ed., "Required Reading," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 15, 1986.
With others, Women and Health Research: Ethical and Legal Issues of Including Women in Clinical Studies, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 1994.
"Webster Marks Time," Biolaw, August 1989. "Women's Privacy and the Law," Washington Women's Bar Association Newsletter, March 1989.
Bibliographic Essay, "Privacy in American Law," American Philosophical Association Law and Philosophy Newsletter, 1988.
13 8. NEWARK STAR LEDGER COLUMNS – “The Moralist”
1. Messing with Mother Nature for Mother Goose (10/15/2006)
2. When is spying OK? (9/24/2006)
3. Benefits of new vaccine outweigh ethics concerns (9/10/2006)
4. The Ethical Compass of American Warriors (6/11/2006)
5. Pointing the Finger at 'Immoral' Crime Victims (5/14/2006)
6. A Slap in the Face to Immigration Reform (4/9/2006)
7. Put Kids First, Really (3/26/2006)
8. We Don't Need to Go There Again (3/12/2006)
9. A World of Pain (1/8/2006)
10. When Giving is a Duty, Its Rarely a Joy (12/11/2005)
11. The Politics of Ethics (11/13/2005)
12. Hurricanes, Cronyism and the Courts (10/9/2005)
13. When is Looting Acceptable ? (9/4/2005)
14. The Wrong Guy (7/31/2005)
15. Appointment with Dignity (7/10/2005)
16. Illness and Ethics (6/19/2005)
17. Rx for Trouble: Just Give Us the Medicine, Please (5/8/2005)
18. April is a Taxing Month (4/10/2005)
19. The Schindlers’ Wish (3/13/2005)
20. No Child Left…Unethical ? (2/13/2005)
KEYNOTE, ENDOWED AND OTHER SELECTED LECTURES
Forthcoming: 2006-2007
University of Chicago Law School, Conference on Surveillance UCLA, Conference on Forgetting
2006
Stice Lecture, University of Washington, October 24, Seattle, Washington.
Speaker, "7th Annual PLI Institute on Privacy Law: New Developments & Compliance Issues in a Security Conscious World 2006," New York, New York, June 19, 2006
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Speaker, Commencement Address, New College, Sarasota, Florida, May 19, 2006
Luncheon Speaker, “Moralizing in Public,” Lincoln Center Scholar, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, April 24-25, 2006
Speaker, “If Terri Schiavo had Lived in New Jersey,” First Annual Conference, New Jersey End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium, Rutgers University College of Nursing, Atlantic City, New Jersey, March 23, 2006
Workshop, “Moralizing in Public,” Sadie Alexander Conference, BLSA, February 18, 2006
Scholar in Residence, Hofstra Law School, New York, New York, February 21-22, 2006
2005
Lecture, “The New Ethics,” Swarthmore Rotary Club, May 6, 2005
Lecture, “The New Ethics,” University of Pennsylvania Library, Alumni Week, May 13, 2005
Lecture, Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, “Insanely Good,” Harvard University, October 6, 2005
Lecture, “The New Ethics,” Stephen’s College, Columbia, Missouri, March 2005.
John Glenn Institute Lecture, “The New Ethics,” Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio January 2005
Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture, University of Pittsburgh Law School, February 24, 2005.
Lecture, “Law Floats on a Sea of Ethics,” Drake University Law School, Constitutional Center, Distinguished Lecturer Series, February 10, 2005.
Lecture, “Dear Shirley Chisholm,” Martin Luther King Day—Day of Service, University of Pennsylvania, February 2005.
2004
The Barbara Black Lecture,"Why Aren't We Better," Columbia University Law School, September 23, 2004.
15 The Robert Harris Lecture, Department of Philosophy, "Law Floats on a Sea of Ethics," Miami University in Ohio, October 7, 2004.
Lecture, “Contemporary Ethics,” Eastern District of Pennsylvania Judicial Retreat, Inn at Perry's Cabin, St. Michael's, Md. October 14, 2004.
Lecture, “Medical Privacy, Reconsidered,” American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, April 2004.
2003-2002
Keynote Lecture, “Why Privacy Isn’t Everything,” Feminist Ethics and Social Theory Conference, Clearwater Florida, October 16, 2003.
Luncheon Keynote, “Why Are We So Bad,” Association of American Law Schools, Jurisprudence Section, January 5, 2003.
Lecture, “Why We Cheat and What to Do About It, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD., December 6, 2002.
Meador Lecture, University of Alabama Law School, February 2003.
2001-1999
The Derrick Bell Lecture, “Accountability for Private Life,” New York University School of Law, November 1, 2001
Lecture, “Minor Distractions: the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act,” Internet Researchers Conference, University of Minnesota, October 11, 2001. “The Ethics of Interracial Marriage,” Alaine Locke Conference, Howard University, September 16, 2000.
“Sex, Privacy and Public Life,” George Washington University Law Review Symposium, Washington, D.C., February 13, 1999.
1998 and before
Reuschlein Lecture, “Lying to Protect Privacy,” Villanova Law School, October 30, 1998.
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“Affirmative Action in Europe and America,” European Community Conference, Innsbruck, Austria, September 1998.
“Redefining Privacy,” American Corporate Counsel Association, November 13, 1998, Washington, D.C.
The Social Contract Theory in American Case Law,” Stockholm Law School, Stockholm, Sweden, May 8, 1998.
Dunwoody Lecture, University of Florida Law School, March 20, 1998.
“Liberalism and the Erosion of Privacy,” Reconstructing Liberalism, William and Mary Law School, April 2, 1998.
Distinguished Visiting Lee Fellow Lecture, William and Mary Law School, February 4, 1997.
“Slavery, Law and the Social Contract,” Higgins Lecturer, Clark University, October 30, 1997.
“Reproductive Law,” Wellesley College, November 18, 1997.
Race in the Classroom and the Courtroom, Williams College, March 13, 1997.
"Our Genetic Natures," Communities of Color and Genetic Testing: Purpose, Voice & Values, Seton Hall Law School, November 8, 1996. "Does Hate Have a Remedy?" University of Indiana, April 1994.
"Does a Child Have a Right to a Certain Identity?" The Sixth World Congress on the International Association of Law and Social Philosophy, "Law Justice & the State," Reykjavik, Iceland, May 26-June 2, 1993.
"Abortion Law as Family Law, "First World Congress on Family Law and Children's Rights, Sydney, Australia, July 6, 1993.
Franklin J. Marchette Lecture, "Role Model Arguments," North American Society for Social Philosophy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, August 9, 1991.
The Alain Locke Lecture, "Real Rights: Legal Philosophy and the Black Underclass," Howard University, April 18, 1990.
The Davies Lecture, "How Privacy Got Its Gender," University of San Francisco,
17 Department of Philosophy, April 4, 1990.
“Behind Closed Doors: Privacy and Confidentiality in Higher Education," Annual Meeting, American Association of University Professors, Washington, D.C., June 17, 1989.
Keynote, "Voices for Choices," University of Wisconsin, Madison, November 1989.
"Surrogacy, Slavery, and Privacy," De Paul College of Law, Chicago, Illinois, April 19, 1989.
Commencement Address, New College of the University of South Florida, Sarasota, Florida, May 26, 1989.
SELECTED OTHER PRESENTATIONS
Panelist, Author Meets Critics, True Faith and Allegiance: Immigration and American Civic Nationalism/Noah Pickus, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Jacksonville, Florida, March 4, 2006
Workshop, “Residential Treatment Facilities for Kids,” Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, March 9, 2006
Commentator, Penn Women Studies Work-in-Progress Series (Prof. Thad Davis), Janaury 20, 2005
Panelist, “Hurricane Katrina” The Ethical Edge, MSNBC Special, Taping September 13- 14, 2005, broadcast 23 times in September.
Panelist, “"Black Women in/and the Profession of Philosophy," American Philosophical Association, December 29, 2005
Commentator, Invited Paper, Mier Dan-Cohen, “Revisionary Practices,” American Philosophical Association, December 30, 2005
Panelist, Nomination of Harriet Mier to the Supreme Court, Penn Federalist Society, October 25, 2005
Speaker, “Disrobed: the Constitution of Modesty,” The Future of Privacy: Conference in Honor of Richard Turkington, November 2006
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Panelist, “Conscience Clauses, Federalist Society, Washington, D.C., November 10, 2005
Speaker, “The Constitution of Modesty,” Feminism and the Law Workshop, University of Toronto Law School, December 2, 2005 Toronto, Canada
Panelist, “Season of Miracles,” The Ethical Edge, MSNBC, December 24, 2005, 7:30 pm. EST
“Race and the Individual,” Federalist Society, Washington D.C., November 2004 American Society for Professional and Practical Ethics, Annual Meeting, Author Meets Reader, 2004 and 2005; chair on session discussion book by Michael Boylan. February 26.
“Privacy and Free Speech,” Association of American Law Schools, Section on Defamation and Privacy, January 2004.
“Attorney-Client Confidentiality,” Association of American Law Schools, Section on Evidence, January 2004.
Comment on Invited Paper by Leslie Francis, Eastern Division American Philosophical Association, December 2003.
“Rawls on Race and Ethnicity,” Rawls and the Law, Fordham Law School, November 7, 2003.
“Diversity: Where Are We Now?,” The New School, October 22, 2003.
Privacy Law, American Bar Association, Section on Minority Lawyers, 2003.
“Scholars Meet the Founding Fathers: A Conversation,” National Constitution Center, July 2, 2003.
Panelist, Women’s Atheneum, “Privacy and Management,” New York City, January 15, 2003.
“What Roe Should Have Said: Rewriting Roe Symposium,” Yale Law School, January 2003.
Tanner Lecture Symposium, University of Michigan, November 2002.
Privacy and the Information Age, National Academy of Science, Washington, D.C., September 10, 2002.
“Caring Sharing, Daring,” Conference on the Human Genome Project, Washington
19 University in St. Louis, January 28, 2002.
“Who Wants Crazy Kids: Ethical Adoption in the Shadow of Mental Illness?” Columbia University, Curtis Berger Memorial Symposium, October 20, 2001.
“Children and Online Privacy,” University of Houston Law School E-Commerce and Privacy Conference, Santa Fe, May 31-June 3, 2001.
“Origins of Privacy Law,” Second Annual Privacy Law Institute, Practicing Law Institute, New York, New York, June 2001.
Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Family Law Symposium 2000: The American Family in the st 21 Century, November 18, 2000.
“Is Privacy Possible?,” Social Research Conference Series: Privacy, October 7, 2000, New School for Social Research, New York.
“The Wanted Gaze,” Georgetown University Law Center, September 15, 2000.
“Gun Manufacturer Liability,” Philosophers for Social Responsibility, Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, April 20, 2000.
“Why Journalists Can’t Respect Privacy,” Conference on Privacy and Free Expression, Northwestern Center for the Advanced Study of Free Expression, April 6-7, 2000.
The Ethics of Adoption, University of Massachusetts, Boston, March 9-10, 2000.
Gender and Privacy in Cyberspace,” Cyberspace and Privacy: A New Legal Paradigm, February 6-7, 2000, Stanford University Law School.
“Privacy: Politics and Ideology,” New School for Social Research, Wolfson Center for National Affairs, October 11, 1999.
University of Michigan, “Contexts for Diversity, Europe and North America,” September 30, 1999.
“Privacy and the Law,” New Perspectives on Privacy Conference, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, May 28-30,1999.
“Medical Information Privacy,” Robert H. Levi Leadership Program Symposium, April 22, 1999.
North American Society for Philosophy, “Race, Social Identity and Human Dignity,” Villanova Pennsylvania, July 17, 1999.
20 Panel Discussant and Moderator, “Gendered Acts and Actors” and “Humanistic Perspectives and Public Policy,”
Working Group on Law, Culture and the Humanities, Wake Forest University, March 13- 14, 1999.
“Deliberative Democracy,” Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, February 26, 1999.
“The Value of Integration,” American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, December 28, 1998.
American Philosophical Association, “Affirmative Action,” Washington, D.C., December 29, 1998.
“Harvard Law School in the 1980s,” Harvard 45, Harvard Law School, November 14, 1998.
“Privacy,” International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Pittsburgh, Pa., October 20, 1998
“The American Century,” Newsmuseum, New York, N.Y., October 14, 1998. “Choosing an Ethical Theory,” The Moral Philosophy of Alan Gewirth, Marymount University, November 7, 1997.
Privacy at the Crossroads Symposium, “The Future of Privacy,” October 20, 1997, Georgetown University.
The Next Conference, New Yorker Magazine, “Ethics and the Future of Privacy,” October 15, 1997.
"Red and Yellow, Black and White -- By Law," The Politics of Counting: Race, Ethnicity, and Censuses in Modern Politics, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, November 8, 1996.
"Norms and Reproduction," Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, October 8, 1996 and November 1997.
“The Idea of the Social Contract in American Law,” University of North Carolina, Department of Philosophy, January 1996.
"Feminist Jurisprudence," American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meetings, December 1995.
"The Responsibilities of the Intellectual," University of Maryland Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, April 1994.
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"On Hate Speech and Hazing: Conditions of Membership in Masculine Communities," Brown University Pembroke Center, March 9-10, 1994.
"The Equality Argument for Abortion," Equal Citizenship Conference, Brown University, March 11, 1994.
"Sex and the Constitution," Federalist Society, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, March 5, 1994. Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching International Economic Law, Washington, D.C., February 26, 1994.
Black Women in the Academy: Defending Our Name, 1894-1994, MIT and Radcliffe, January 13, 1994.
"The Future of Abortion Rights," Michigan State University, March 15, 1993.
"Why Punish Racially Demeaning Expression?" University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Dept. of Philosophy, January 18, 1993.
"Affirmative Action," American Philosophical Association, Invited Symposium, December 30, 1993.
"Legal Feminism," Feminist Ethics and Social Policy, University of Pittsburgh, November 5-7, 1993.
New Perspectives on Women, Health & Law, University of Texas School of Law, March 5 & 6, 1993.
"Confessions of a Canonette: Pressure to Extend the Law School Canon," AALS, San Francisco, 1993.
Food and Drug Law/FDA Conference on Women in Clinical Trials, October 1992. Conference on Freedom of Expression, Hollins Institute for Ethics and Public Policy, June 12-14, 1992.
Conference on Academic Freedom and Legal Education, American Bar Association Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, April 3-4, 1992.
AALS Mini-Workshop on Jurisprudence; AALS Section on Minorities, San Diego, January 4, 1992.
"Autonomy's Magic Wand," Humanities Institute on Constitutional Interpretation, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 14-15, 1991.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, "Economic Justice," December 7,
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Judicial Conference of the United States Committee on the Bicentennial of the Constitution, Bill of Rights Centennial Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, October 21- 23, 1991.
DOE/NIH Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of the Human Genome Mapping Working Group, Waltham, Massachusetts June 28, 1991.
"Privacy Issues in Human Genome Research," Arizona State University College of Law, March and May 1991.
"Hobbesian Formalism and Corrective Justice," March 8-9, 1991, University of Iowa.
"How Privacy Law Got Its Gender," Graduate Women's Conference, University of Pennsylvania, February 16, 1990.
Smithsonian Institution, "Restraint of Speech in a Free Society: The Limits of the First Amendment," December 15, 1990.
University of California at Berkeley Law School and School of Journalism, "Privacy and the Media," October 27, 1990.
"Pregnancy and the Right to Privacy," D.C. Annual Bar Convention, June 23, 1990.
"Words that Hurt: Discriminatory Harassment in Higher Education," American Association of University Professors, June 16, 1990.
Section on Jurisprudence, American Association of Law Schools, "Abortion, Privacy and Personhood," San Francisco, California, January 6, 1990.
Section on Interpretation, American Association of Law Schools, San Francisco, California, January 7, 1990.
Commentator, Invited Paper on Ethics, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Atlanta, Georgia, December 1989.
"Civil Wrongs," Session Commemorating the Civil Rights Act of 1964, American Philosophical Association,
Eastern Division, Atlanta, Georgia, December 1989.
First Annual Workshop on Critical Race Theory, Madison, Wisconsin, July 7-12, 1989.
"Beyond Roe v. Wade," Americans for Democratic Action, National Policy Conference, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1989.
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University of Delaware Center for the Study of Values, Conference: "Meditations on Integration: Philosophy and the Black Underclass," May 31, 1989.
Commentator, "Religious Freedom and the Welfare State," William and Mary Law School, Sixth Annual Bill of Rights Symposium, Williamsburg, Virginia, April 8, 1989.
Federalist Society, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, "Ownership of Self," March 11, 1989.
Harvard Alumni Association, "The Experiences of Minority Women: At Harvard and Beyond," Conference: "Celebration 35," Harvard Law School, April 9, 1988.
"Why Choose Academia?," Conference: "Issues of Race in the Ivory Tower," University of Michigan School of Law, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 26, 1988.
Symposium: "Judicial Election, Selection and Accountability," University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, February 5, 1988.
International Symposium: "Constitutional Roots, Rights and Responsibilities," Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., May 18-23, 1987.
"Colloquium on Feminist Moral, Social, and Legal Theory," University of Cincinnati College of Law, November 22, 1986.
“Labor Relations in a Post-Industrial Economy," University of Pittsburgh, "Employee Drug and Alcohol Testing," October 24, 1986.
15th National Conference on Women and the Law, Los Angeles, California, "Privacy in a Different Voice," 1984.
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