Anita L. Allen

Books

PRIVACY LAW AND SOCIETY (3d ed., West 2016).
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UNPOPULAR PRIVACY: WHAT MUST WE HIDE? (Oxford University Press 2011).
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THE NEW ETHICS: A TOUR OF THE 21ST CENTURY LANDSCAPE (Miramax Books 2004).
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WHY PRIVACY ISN'T EVERYTHING: FEMINIST REFLECTIONS ON PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY (Rowman & Littlefield 2003).
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UNEASY ACCESS: PRIVACY FOR WOMEN IN A FREE SOCIETY (Rowman & Littlefield 1988).

Articles and Book Chapters

Synthesis and Satisfaction: The Impact of American Philosophy on India’s Constitutional Privacy Right, 20 THEORETICAL INQUIRIES IN LAW 343 (January 2019).

The Declining Significance of Home: Privacy “Whilst Quiet” and of No Use to Artists or Anyone, 4 HA: THE JOURNAL OF THE HANNAH ARENDT CENTER FOR POLITICS AND HUMANITIES AT BARD COLLEGE 84 (2016).

The Duty to Protect Your Own Privacy, in PRIVACY, SECURITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY: ETHICS, LAW AND POLICY (Adam Moore ed., Rowman & Littlefield 2016).

Protecting One’s Own Privacy in a Big Data Economy, 130 HARV. L. REV. F. 71 (2016).

Cognitive Enhancement and Beyond: Recommendations from the Bioethics Commission, 19 TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES 549 (2015) (with Nicolle K. Strand).

Compliance-Limited Health Privacy Laws, in SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF PRIVACY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES (Beate Roessler and Dorota Mokrosinka eds., Cambridge U. Press 2015).

Veiled Women in the American Courtroom: Is the Niqab a Barrier to Justice? in THE RULE OF LAW AND THE RULE OF GOD (Simeon O. Ilesanmi, Win-Chiat Lee & J. Wilson Parker eds., Palgrave Macmillan 2014).

Privacy Law: Positive Theory and Normative Practice, 126 HARV. L. REV. F. 241 (2013).

An Ethical Duty to Protect One's Own Information Privacy?, 64 ALA. L. REV. 845 (2013).

Medicine in the Twenty-first Century: Ethical Means and Ends, in DIMENSIONS OF GOODNESS (Vittorio Hösle, ed., Cambridge Scholars, 2013).

Natural Law, Slavery, and the Right to Privacy Tort, 81 FORDHAM L. REV. 1187 (2012).

First Amendment Privacy and the Battle for Progressively Liberal Social Change, 14 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 885 (2012).

The Offensive Internet: Speech, Privacy, and Reputation, 26 ETHICS & INT'L AFF. 152 (2012). (book review)

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).

Is There a Right to Health?, 12 J. HUM. DEV. & CAPABILITIES 571 (2011)

Hijabs and Headwraps: the Case for Tolerance, in FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN A DIVERSE WORLD 115 (Deirdre Golash, ed., Springer 2010).

Mental Disorders and the "System of Judgmental Responsibility", 90 B.U. L. REV. 621 (2010).

Driven into Society: Philosophies of Surveillance take to Streets of New York, 1 AMSTERDAM L. F. 35 (2009).

Atmospherics: Abortion Law and Philosophy, in ON PHILOSOPHY IN AMERICAN LAW (Francis J. Mootz III, ed., Cambridge U. Press, 2009).

More publications can be found here.

Research Areas

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

Positions

Penn - Vice Provost for Faculty (2013- ); Penn Law - Deputy Dean (2009-11); Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law (2004- ); Professor of Law and Philosophy (1998-2004)

Commissioner, Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues

Visiting Professor - Waseda (Tokyo), Yale, Harvard, Villanova, Princeton, Arizona, Hofstra, Johns Hopkins, Tel-Aviv

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

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

Carnegie-Mellon - Assistant Professor of Philosophy (1978-81)

Professional Activities

American Psychological Association, Ad Hoc Ethics Commission, 2006, 2007.

NIH Precision Medicine IRB, 2016-present

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)

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

Courses

• Privacy Law
• Torts
• Introduction to Ethics
• Bioethics and the Law of Mental Health
• African American Philosophy Since 1960
• Bioethics of Reproduction
• Mental Health and Moral Life.