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Tel: 215.898.9035
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Email: aallen@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Privacy Law
- Information Law
- Bioethics
- Jurisprudence
- Torts
- Legal Ethics
- Constitutional Law
- Health Law
- Philosophy of Law
- Non-Profit Organizations
- Gender Studies
- Political Philosophy
- Race Relations
- Sexuality and the Law
Bio
Anita L. Allen is an expert on privacy law, bioethics, and contemporary values, and is recognized for her scholarship about legal philosophy, women’s rights, and race relations.
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Anita L. Allen is an expert on privacy law, bioethics, and contemporary values, and is recognized for her scholarship about legal philosophy, women’s rights, and race relations. In 2010 she was appointed by President Obama to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. Her books include Unpopular Privacy: What Must We Hide (Oxford, 2011); Everyday Ethics: Opinion-Writing about the Things that Matter Most (Academic Readers/Cognella, 2010); Privacy Law and Society (Thomson/West, 2011); The New Ethics: A Guided Tour of the 21st Century Moral Landscape (Miramax/Hyperion, 2004); Why Privacy Isn’t Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003); and Uneasy Access: Privacy for Women in a Free Society (Rowman and Littlefield, 1988). She co-edited (with Milton Regan) Debating Democracy’s Discontent (Oxford, 1998). Allen, who has written more than a 100 scholarly articles, has also contributed to popular magazines and blogs, and has frequently appeared on nationally broadcast television and radio programs.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - Deputy Dean (2009-11); Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law (2004- ); Professor of Law and Philosophy (1998-2004)
Georgetown - Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship (1996-98)
Visiting Professor - Waseda (Tokyo), Yale, Harvard, Villanova, Princeton, Arizona, Hofstra, Johns Hopkins, Tel-Aviv
National Endowment for the Humanities IPA Associate Program Director (1980-81)
Carnegie-Mellon - Assistant Professor of Philosophy (1978-81)
Representative Publications
UNPOPULAR PRIVACY: WHAT MUST WE HIDE? (Oxford University Press) 2011.
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PRIVACY LAW AND SOCIETY (2d ed., West 2011).
PRIVACY LAW TODAY (Anita L. Allen ed. Cognella 2011).
Was I Entitled or Should I Apologize: Affirmative Action Going Forward, 15 J. ETHICS 253 (2011).
Associational Privacy and the First Amendment: NAACP v. Alabama, Privacy and Data Protection, 1 ALA. C.R. & C.L. L. REV. 1 (2011).
Commercial Speech Bruises Health Privacy in the Supreme Court, 41 HASTINGS CENTER REP. 8 (2011).
Is There a Right to Health?, 12 J. HUM. DEV. & CAPABILITIES 571 (2011)
EVERYDAY ETHICS: OPINION-WRITING ABOUT THE THINGS THAT MATTER MOST (2011).
Hijabs and Headwraps: the Case for Tolerance, in FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN A DIVERSE WORLD 115 (Deidre Golash, ed., Springer 2010).
Mental Disorders and the "System of Judgmental Responsibility", 90 B.U. L. REV. 621 (2010).
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Privacy Torts: Unreliable Remedies for LGBT Plaintiffs, 98 CAL. L. REV. 1711 (2010).
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Privacy and Confidentiality, in PENN CENTER GUIDE TO BIOETHICS (Vardit Ravitsky, Autumn Fiester, & Arthur L. Caplan, eds., Springer 2009).
Driven into Society: Philosophies of Surveillance take to Streets of New York, 1 AMSTERDAM L. F. 35 (2009).
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The Poetry of Genetics: On the Pitfalls of Popularizing Science, 24 HYPATIA: A JOURNAL OF FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY 247 (2009).
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Atmospherics: Abortion Law and Philosophy, in ON PHILOSOPHY IN AMERICAN LAW (Francis J. Mootz III, ed., Cambridge U. Press, 2009).
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Privacy and Medicine, in STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY (2009) (revised 2011).
Undressing Difference: The Hijab in the West,
23 BERKELEY J. GENDER L. & JUST. 208 (2008)
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The Virtuous Spy: Privacy as an Ethical Limit, THE MONIST: INT’L Q. J. GEN. PHIL. INQUIRY (2008)
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Dredging Up the Past: Lifelogging, Memory, and Surveillance, 75 U. CHI. L. REV. 47 (2008)
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Unpopular Privacy: The Case for Government Mandates, 32 OKLA. CITY U. L. REV. 87 (2007)
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Privacy, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRIVACY (William G. Staples, ed., Greenwood Press 2007).
Face to Face With 'It': And Other Neglected Contexts of Health Privacy,
151 PROCEEDINGS AM. PHIL. SOC’Y 300 (2007).
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Moralizing in Public, 34 HOFSTRA L. REV. 1525 (2006).
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Disrobed: The Constitution of Modesty, 51 VILL. L. REV. 841 (2006)
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What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said, in REWRITING ROE V. WADE (Jack Balkin ed., NYU Press 2005).
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Current & Recent Research
Current Working Papers
The Offensive Internet, 26 ETHICS & INT'L AFF __ (2012). (forthcoming)
MORAL LIFE AND MENTAL CONDITIONS. (forthcoming Blackwell)
Adoption and Mental Health, in progress. (forthcoming)
First Amendment Privacy: A Double-Edged Sword, U. PA. J. CONST. L. (forthcoming 2012)
First Amendment Privacy and the Battle for Progressively Liberal Social Change, __ U. PA. J. CONST. L. __ (2012). (forthcoming)
A Liberty of Privacy: Natural Law Origins of the Privacy Invasion Tort, __ FORDHAM L. REV. __ (2012). (forthcoming)
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
Hypatia, A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Advisory Board, (2000-02)
Maternity Care Coalition, Bd. Member, 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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