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Hank T. Greely

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.