Embryonic Injuries and Nascent Remedies in the Age of CRISPR-CAS and Advanced IVF

Barbara Pfeffer Billauer Related Seminars and Products

Professor

University of Porto, Portugal

Professor Billauer is a Professor of Law and Bioethics in the International Bioethics Program at the University of Porto, Portugal. She also holds a Research Professorship at the Institute of World Politics where she researches the intersection of law, science, and public policy. Professor Billauer holds a B.S. (Hons.) from Cornell University in biology, a J.D. from Hofstra University, an M.A. in Occupational Medicine from N.Y.U., and a Ph.D. (Law) from Haifa university. Before transition to academia, she was a litigator in the medical malpractice and toxic torts areas and contributed to the development of asbestos regulations at the federal and NYC levels. Her current research addresses bioethical dilemmas from a torts and public health perspective. Most recently, she edited Professor Carmi’s Casebook on Bioethics for Judges.

Scott Burris Related Seminars and Products

Professor

Temple University Beasley School of Law

Professor Burris is a Professor of Law at Temple Law School, where he directs the Center for Public Health Law Research and a Professor in Temple’s School of Public Health. His research focuses on how law influences public health and health behavior and has written on issue s including urban health; discrimination against people with HIV and other disabilities; HIV policy; research ethics; and the health effects of criminal law and drug policy. He edited the first systematic legal analysis of HIV in the United States, AIDS and the Law: A Guide for the Public (Yale University Press, 1987; New Guide for the Public published 1993), and spent several years lobbying and litigating on behalf of people with HIV as an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union. Professor Burris is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis (A.B.) and Yale Law School (J.D.).

Amy Campbell Related Seminars and Products

Dean

UIC John Marshall Law School

Dean Campbell is the Associate Dean for Law & Health Sciences and Professor of Law at UIC John Marshall Law School. Previously, Dean Campbell was an Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Health Law & Policy at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law and Adjunct Faculty in the Center for Bioethics and Clinical Leadership of the Union Graduate College-Mount Sinai School of Medicine Bioethics Program. Professor Campbell received her J.D. from Yale Law School, a Master’s in Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania, and her B.A. in History and Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame. She teaches and researches in the areas of health law and ethics, including child and adolescent health and mental health. 

Judith Daar Related Seminars and Products

Dean

NKU Chase College of Law

Dean Daar is the Ambassador Patricia L. Herbold Dean and Professor of Law at Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law. Dean Daar has taught both core courses and specialty health law courses, while concentrating her scholarship at the intersection of law, medicine, and ethics and is a widely recognized expert in the area of law and assisted reproductive technologies. Dean Daar has written extensively in areas involving legal issues in assisted reproductive matters and medical ethics and published one of the first and only casebooks in the field of assisted reproductive technologies, Reproductive Technologies and the Law (2d Ed. 2013). Dean Daar is the chair of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Ethics Committee, a liaison member of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology Ethics Committee, and previously served two terms as president of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics. Dean Daar received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and was previously the interim dean, associate dean, and professor at Whittier Law School as well as held several other visiting professor appointments. 

Robert Dinerstein Related Seminars and Products

Dean

American University Washington School of Law

Dean Dinerstein is acting Dean, Professor of Law, and Director of the Disability Rights Law Clinic at American University, Washington College of Law, where he has taught since 1983. In the area of disability rights, he has written and presented extensively on the Americans with Disabilities Act, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, supported decision-making as an alternative to guardianship, and the rights of people with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities, among other areas. He served on the President’s Committee on People with Intellectual Disabilities from 1994-2000 and is the 2013 winner of the ABA’s Paul G. Hearne Award for Disability Rights. He has an A.B. degree from Cornell University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. 

Dov Fox Related Seminars and Products

Professor

University of San Diego School of Law

Professor Dov Fox is a Professor of Law, Herzog Endowed Scholar, and Director of the Center for Health Law Policy & bioethics at the University of San Diego School of Law. His research is in the areas of criminal law and procedure, health law and bioethics, and the regulation of technology. Professor Fox was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to attend Oxford University, where he earned his doctorate in political theory and served as a lecturer in politics and philosophy. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School and was projects editor of the Yale Law Journal. In 2017, Professor Fox was selected as a Life Science Catalyst Award winner for “significant contributions to human health through research, discovery, and entrepreneurship.” His latest book is “Birth Rights and Wrongs: How Medicine and Technology Are Remaking Reproduction and the Law.”

Michele Bratcher Goodwin Related Seminars and Products

Professor

The University of California, Irvine School of Law

Professor Goodwin is a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine and founding director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy. She is the recipient of the 2020-21 Distinguished Senior Faculty Award for Research, the highest honor bestowed by the University of California and is the first law professor at the University of California, Irvine to receive this award.  Professor Goodwin is credited with helping to establish and shape the health law field.  She directed the first ABA accredited health law program in the nation and established the first law center focused on race and bioethics. Professor Goodwin received her B.A. in Sociology; Anthropology; and African Languages & Literature from the University of Wisconsin and her J.D. from Boston College Law School.

Ms. Rachel Gray Related Seminars and Products

Editor-in-Chief, Chicago-Kent Law Review

Chicago-Kent College of Law

Rachel is a 3L at Chicago-Kent College of Law and the Editor-in-Chief of the Chicago-Kent Law Review. She graduated summa cum laude from Drake University with majors in International Relations and Political Science and a minor in Spanish. At Drake, Rachel was the president of Model Arab League and studied abroad in Uganda, Egypt, Spain, and India. While in law school, Rachel worked as a 1L Business Fellow and spent the

summer after her 1L year at SmithAmundsen LLC, where she worked as a law clerk for the Class Action and Healthcare practice groups. Rachel also worked as a teaching assistant for Civil Procedure and is a member of the Honors Scholars Program. Rachel spent her 2L summer at Baker & McKenzie LLP as a summer associate and will be returning there after graduation.

Hank T. Greely Related Seminars and Products

Professor

Stanford Law School

Professor Greely is the Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law, Director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences, Professor (by courtesy) and Genetics Chair of the Steering Committee of the Center for Biomedical Ethics, and the Director of the Stanford Program in Neuroscience and Society at Stanford Law School. Professor Greely specializes in the ethical and legal implications of new biomedical technologies related to genetics, neuroscience, and stem cell research. Prior to joining the Stanford Law faculty, Professor Greely was a partner at Tuttle & Taylor, a staff assistant to the secretary of the U.S. department of Energy, special assistant to the general counsel of the U.S. Department of Defense, and a law clerk to Justice Potter Steward of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge John Minor Wisdom of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Professor Greely received his J.D. from Yale Law School and his B.A. from Stanford University.  

Yaniv Heled Related Seminars and Products

Professor

Georgia State University College of Law

Professor Cohen is the James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, Deputy Dean, and Faculty Director for the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics at Harvard Law School. Professor Cohen is considered one of the world’s leading experts on the intersection of bioethics and the law. Professor Cohen’s current research relates to big data, health information technology, mobile health, reproductive technology, research ethics, and other areas of health law and he has authored over 150 articles and is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of over 15 books related to the field of health law. Professor Cohen was an Appellate Attorney (Honors Program) for the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Devision and clerked for the Honorable Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Professor Cohen received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and his B.A. in Bioethics and Psychology from the University of Toronto. 

David Heyd Related Seminars and Products

Professor

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Professor Heyd is the Chaim Perlman Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His main fields of research are ethics, political philosophy, and bioethics. He has published Supererogation (Cambridge University Press, 1982), Genethics (1992), Ethics and Medicine (1989, in Hebrew), edited Toleration (Princeton University Press, 1996). His articles relating to the theme of this volume include topics such as intergenerational justice, wrongful life, the non-identity problem, and reproductive ethics and he has written several articles on the place of wrongful life claims in cases of wrongful gamete manipulation, addressing both American and Israeli perspectives. Professor Heyd was the winner of the Emet Prize in philosophy (2017). He received his Ph.D. from Oxford University and BA/MA from Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Anita K. Krug Related Seminars and Products

Dean

Chicago-Kent College of Law

Biography

Pamela Laufer-Ukeles Related Seminars and Products

Professor

The Academic College of Law and Science (Sha'arei Mishpat College of Law)

Professor Laufer-Ukeles is a Professor of Law and Professor of Health Administration at the Academic Center of Law & Science in Hod Hasharon, Israel. Her research interests include bioethics, family law, torts, and feminist jurisprudence. Her articles have appeared in numerous law review and book compilations, including the Indiana Law Journal, the Connecticut Law Review, the American Journal of Law & Medicine, and the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender. Professor Laufer-Ukeles was previously a tenured law professor at the University of Dayton School of Law. She was a Fulbright and Harvard-Kenney Fellow at Bar-Ilan University in the field of bioethics. She has been a visiting professor at numerous law schools. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A., magna cum laude, from Columbia College in Philosophy and Economics. 

Seema Mohapatra Related Seminars and Products

Professor

IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law

Professor Mohapatra is an Associate Professor of Law and Dean’s Fellow at Indiana Univeristy Robert H. McKinney School of Law. Professor Mohapatra is a leading expert in the areas of biotechnology and the law, public health law, reproductive justice, and health equity. Professor Mohapatra has written on topics such as insurance coverage of infertility and assisted reproduction, genetics and health privacy, international surrogacy laws, and equity in healthcare coverage. Prior to teaching, Professor Mohapatra practiced health law in Chicago at Sidley & Austin and Foley & Lardner. Professor Mohapatra earned her Juris Doctorate at Northwestern University School of Law, her Master of Public Health in chronic disease epidemiology at Yale University, and her bachelor's degree with a major in Natural Sciences and a minor in Women's Studies from Johns Hopkins University. 

Svetlana Rechitsky Related Seminars and Products

Dr.

Reproductive Genetic Innovations in Northbrook, IL

Dr. Rechitsky is a Director and President of Reproductive Genetic Innovations in Northbrook, IL. Dr. Rechitsky is a graduate of Kharkov University’s Genetics Faculty and received her Ph.D. in experimental molecular embryology from the Moscow Medical Institute. At RGI, she has headed the DNA laboratory and performed the largest Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Monogenic/Single Gene Defects series for single gene disorders and has published more than 60 papers in the field of PGT-M, including contributions to the Atlas of Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Monogenic/Single Gene Defects. Dr. Rechitsky is also a faculty member of Floridan International University and is the vice-chair of the PGT-M Special Interest Group at the American Society of Reproductive Medicine. Her prior appointments include president of the Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis International Society. 

Ms. Jessica L. Roberts Related Seminars and Products

Professor

University of Houston Law Center

Professor Roberts is a Professor of Law, Leonard H. Childs Chair in Law, Professor of Medicine, and Director of the Health Law & Policy Institute at The University of Houston Law Center. Professor Roberts specializes in genetics and the law, health law, and disability law. She previously was an Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School and an Adjunct Professor of Disability Studies at the City University of New York. After receiving her J.D. from Yale Law School, Professor Roberts clerked for the Honorable Dale Wainwright of the Texas Supreme Court and the Honorable Roger L. Gregory of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Professor Roberts’ research focuses on the intersection of health law, ethics, and social justice and she has been published in numerous journals. 

Neville Sanjana Related Seminars and Products

Professor

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Professor Sanjana is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Physiology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and an Assistant Professor of Biology at NYU College of Arts and Science. Professor Sanjana is a Core Faculty Member at the New York Genome Center. His research interests include bioengineering, genomics, neuroscience, cancer biology and systems biology.  The Sanjana Lab develops technologies to understand how human genetic variants cause diseases of the nervous system and cancer. Prior to joining the New York Genome Center, he was a Simons Postdoctoral Fellow at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Dr. Sanjana holds a PhD in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from MIT and a BS in Symbolic Systems and a BA in English from Stanford University.

Sonia Suter Related Seminars and Products

Professor

The George Washington University Law School

Professor Sonia Suter, J.D., M.S., is the John R. and Inge P. Stafford Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. Her scholarship addresses the legal and ethical issues in medicine and genetics, with a particular focus on informed consent, emerging reproductive technologies, reproductive rights, genetic discrimination and privacy, newborn screening, forensic uses of genetics, and end-of-life decision making. Before attending law school, she earned an M.S. and Ph.D. candidacy in Human Genetics and worked as a genetic counselor, obtaining clinical experience that informs her scholarship and teaching. Professor Suter advises and works with policy makers on issues related to genetics and bioethics.