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Anita L. Allen (Anita LaFrance Allen-Castellitto)
Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy

Anita L. Allen (Anita LaFrance Allen-Castellitto)
Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy

Tel: 215.898.9035
Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: aallen@law.upenn.edu

Expertise

  • Constitutional Law
  • Feminism
  • Gender Studies
  • Health Law
  • Jurisprudence
  • Law and Literature
  • Legal Ethics
  • Legal Philosophy
  • Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Law
  • Political Philosophy
  • Privacy Law
  • Race Relations
  • Terrorism and Democracy
  • Torts

Bio

Anita L. Allen (aka Allen-Castellitto) is a leading expert on privacy law and contemporary applied ethics. [More]
Anita L. Allen (aka Allen-Castellitto) is a leading expert on privacy law and contemporary applied ethics. She is also recognized for scholarship in the areas of legal philosophy; women’s rights; race-relations; and law and literature. Allen is the author of numerous articles and Privacy Law and Society (2007); The New Ethics (2004); Why Privacy Isn’t Everything: Feminist Reflections on personal Accountability (2003); Uneasy Access: Privacy for Women in a Free Society (1988); and with Milton Regan (eds.), Debating Democracy’s Discontent (1998). Allen’s newspaper column, “The Moralist,” has appeared in the New Star Ledger since 2005.

Allen has been a visiting Professor at Harvard, Villanova, Yale, Princeton, and Arizona. She has been a distingiished visiting faculty at Hofstra. She has been a recipient of fellowships from Princeton’s Program in Law and Public Affairs, the Ford Foundation, the American Association of University Women, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Allen serves as a consultant to law firms, businesses, and government. She has lectured at major colleges and universities across the United States. She is an ethics commentator for MSNBC and appears on the MSNBC program, "The Ethical Edge." She has provided news and information commentary on MSNBC, PBS, CBS and CNN. She has appeared on Good Morning America, 20/20, ABC Nightline, Face the Nation, 60 Minutes, Burden of Proof, Talk of the Nation and other nationally broadcast television and radio programs.
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Representative Professional Positions

Georgetown - Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship (1996-98)

Pittsburgh - Assistant Professor (1985-87)

Visiting Professor - Yale, Harvard, Villanova, Princeton, Arizona, Hofstra, Johns Hopkins

National Endowment for the Humanities IPA Associate Program Director (1980-81)

Carnegie-Mellon - Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Penn Law - Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law (2004 -); Professor of Law and Philosophy (1998 -2004)

Representative Publications

PRIVACY LAW AND SOCIETY (West 2007).
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THE NEW ETHICS: A TOUR OF THE 21ST CENTURY LANDSCAPE (Miramax Books 2004).

WHY PRIVACY ISN'T EVERYTHING: FEMINIST REFLECTIONS ON PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY (Rowman & Littlefield 2003).
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DEBATING DEMOCRACY'S DISCONTENT (with Milton Regan eds., Oxford Univ. Press 1998).

UNEASY ACCESS: PRIVACY FOR WOMEN IN A FREE SOCIETY (Rowman and Littlefield 1988).
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The Virtuous Spy: Privacy as an Ethical Limit, THE MONIST: INT’L Q. J. GEN. PHIL. INQUIRY (forthcoming).
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Dredging-Up the Past: Lifelogging, Memory and Surveillance, 75 U. CHI. L. REV. __ (2008).
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Face to Face With 'It': And Other Neglected Contexts of Health Privacy, 151 PROCEEDINGS AM. PHIL. SOC’Y 300 (2007).
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Privacy, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRIVACY (William G. Staples, ed., Greenwood Press 2007).

Moralizing in Public, 34 HOFSTRA L. REV. 1525 (2006).

What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said, in REWRITING ROE V. WADE (Jack Balkin ed., NYU Press 2005).

Affirmative Action, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE AND HISTORY: THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN THE AMERICAS 31-40 (Colin Palmer, ed., MacMillan 2005).

Race, Face and Rawls, 72 FORDHAM L. REV. 1677 (2004).

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Current & Recent Research

Current Working Papers

A Dialogue Among Dolls: The Case for Cyberfeminism, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 07-46

Atmospherics: A Llewellynesque Comment on Abortion Law, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 07-40

Hannah Arendt and the White Only Shade Tree: Reflections for a First Collegium of Black Women Philosophers

Representative Professional Activities

Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Executive Committee, 2005-present

Association of American Law Schools, Executive Committee, 2000-2003

Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, Board member, 2002-2006

Electronic Privacy Information Center, Board of Advisors, 1999-2006; Board of Directors, 2006-present

Hastings Center, Fellow, since 2005

Hypatia, A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Advisory Board, since

Maternity Care Coalition, Bd. of Directors, since 2008

National Association of Women Lawyers, Judicial Evaluation Committee, since 2006.

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, Editorial Board, since 2004

West Philadelphia Alliance for Children, Chair, Bd. of Directors, 2006-present

 
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Education

  • J.D. - Harvard - '84
  • Ph.D. (philosophy) - Michigan - '80
  • M.A. - Michigan - '76
  • B.A. - New College - '74

Courses Taught

  • Torts, Morality and Mental Illness
  • Privacy Law
  • Bioethics and the Law
  • Justice and the Rule of Law
  • Constitutional Law
  • Jurisprudence
  • Professional Responsibility
  • Liberalism Versus Republicanism - Seminar
  • Law and Literature
  • Justice, Morality and the Law

Research Areas

  • Privacy Law, Theory and Values
  • Legal Theory
  • Philosophy
  • Contemporary Ethics and Bioethics
  • Mental Illness
  • Accountability
  • Race Relations
  • Gender and the Law

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