Anita L. Allen (1953) is the Vice Provost for Faculty and the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She is also a senior fellow in the bioethics department of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, a collaborating faculty member in African studies, and an affiliated faculty member in the women’s studies program. In 2010, President Barack Obama named Allen to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2016.
She has published a large number of monographs, more than a hundred scholarly articles, book chapters and essays, and she has also contributed to newspapers and blogs, and has frequently appeared on nationally broadcast television and radio programs. Allen is active as a member of editorial, advisory, and charity boards, and in professional organizations relating to her expertise.
Allen was educated at New College of Florida (BA), received her M.A. and...
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Allen A (1988) Uneasy access. Privacy for women in a free society. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Totowa
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Roessler, B. (2019). Allen, Anita. In: Sellers, M., Kirste, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_239-1
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