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Email: aallen@law.upenn.edu
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- Gender Studies
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- Law and Literature
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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. Her books include Unpopular Privacy (forthcoming Oxford, 2010); Privacy Law and Society (Thomson/West, 2007); 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 writes for popular magazines and blogs, and has frequently appeared on nationally broadcast television and radio programs.
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Representative Professional Positions
Georgetown - Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship (1996-98)
Visiting Professor - Waseda (Tokyo), Yale, Harvard, Villanova, Princeton, Arizona, Hofstra, Johns Hopkins
Penn Law - Deputy Dean (2009- ); Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law (2004- ); Professor of Law and Philosophy (1998-2004)
Carnegie-Mellon - Assistant Professor of Philosophy (1978-81)
National Endowment for the Humanities IPA Associate Program Director (1980-81)
Representative Publications
The Poetry of Genetics: On the Pitfalls of Popularizing Science, __ HYPATIA: A JOURNAL OF FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY __ (2009).
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Atmospherics: A Llewellynesque Comment on Abortion Law, in ON PHILOSOPHY IN AMERICAN LAW, Francis J. Mootz III, ed., Cambridge U. Press, 2009.
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Undressing Difference: The Hijab in the West,
23 BERKELEY J. GENDER L. & JUST. 208 (2008)
- 06/30/05
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The Virtuous Spy: Privacy as an Ethical Limit,
THE MONIST: INT’L Q. J. GEN. PHIL. INQUIRY (2008)
- 06/30/05
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Dredging Up the Past: Lifelogging, Memory, and Surveillance, 75 U. CHI. L. REV. 47 (2008)
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PRIVACY LAW AND SOCIETY (West 2007); Teacher's Manual (West 2008).
Unpopular Privacy: The Case for Government Mandates, 32 OKLA. CITY U. L. REV. 87 (2007)
- 06/29/05
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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).
Affirmative Action, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE AND HISTORY: THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN THE AMERICAS 31-40 (Colin Palmer, ed., MacMillan 2005).
THE NEW ETHICS: A TOUR OF THE 21ST CENTURY LANDSCAPE (Miramax Books 2004).
Race, Face, and Rawls, 72 FORDHAM L. REV. 1677 (2004).
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WHY PRIVACY ISN'T EVERYTHING: FEMINIST REFLECTIONS ON PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY (Rowman & Littlefield 2003).
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Minor Distractions: Children, Privacy and E-Commerce, 38 HOUS. L. REV. 751 (2001).
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The Wanted Gaze: Accountability for Privacy Invasions at Work, 89 GEO. L. REV. 2013 (2001).
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Lying to Protect Privacy, 44 VILL. L. REV. 161 (1999).
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DEBATING DEMOCRACY'S DISCONTENT (with Milton Regan eds., Oxford Univ. Press 1998).
The Jurisprudence of Jane Eire, 15 HARV. WOMEN'S L.J. 173 (1992).
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Autonomy's Magic Wand: Abortion and Constitutional Interpretation, 72 B.U. L. REV. 683 (1992)
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Hobbes, Formalism, and Corrective Justice, 77 IOWA L. REV. 713 (1992)
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Tribe's Judicious Feminism, 44 STAN. L. REV. 179 (1991)
- 11/01/91
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The Black Surrogate Mother, 8 HARV. BLACKLETTER J. 17 (1991).
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For additional publications, please consult
Current & Recent Research
Current Working Papers
Privacy and Medicine, in STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY (forthcoming 2008).
MORAL LIFE AND MENTAL CONDITIONS (forthcoming Blackwell).
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 and Board Member, since 2005
Hypatia, A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Advisory Board, since
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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