Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of President Obama's Presidential Bioethics Commission.
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"Privacy in the Era of Social Media: Goodbye to Health Privacy"
Wednesday April 4th, 2012 4:30-6pm Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall Dartmouth College
Free and open to the public
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Biography-
Anita L. Allen is the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been a Senior Fellow of the university’s Bioethics Department in the School of Medicine and a member of the Graduate Group Faculty in Africana Studies.
Last year, President Obama appointed Dr. Allen to his Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. She sits on the Board of the Hastings Center, and is Chair of the Hastings Fellows’ Council; she serves on the board of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, and the Maternity Care Coalition, a Philadelphia non-profit. She is on the advisory board of the Electronic Information Privacy Center and formerly served on the National Association for Women Lawyer’s Judicial Evaluation Committee, as well as the Executive Committee of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. Allen currently serves on the board WePAC, the West Philadelphia Alliance for Children, a non-profit devoted to promoting literacy by opening libraries in elementary and secondary schools in low income communities.
Allen is a B.A. graduate of New College, in Sarasota, Florida. She earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan, and J.D. from Harvard Law. She has received awards from the Ford Foundation, the American Association of University Women and the American Council for Learned Societies. She was formerly a Law and Public Affairs Fellow at Princeton University.
Allen’s work focuses on law, ethics and bioethics. She is the author of numerous articles and several books and textbooks. Her most recent book is a defense of privacy paternalism, Unpopular Privacy: What must be Hide? (2011)? Other books include Privacy Law: and Society (2011); Why Privacy Isn’t Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability (2003); The New Ethics: A Guided Tour of the 21st Century Moral Landscape (2004). Allen is a former ethics columnist for the Newark Star Ledger and O Magazine, and has contributed to the dailybeast.com, politico.com and other popular blogs. She has appeared on National Public Radio on all of the major television networks-- MSNBC, CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, and FOX.
Allen has lectured widely in the US and abroad. She has been a visiting professor at Waseda University in Tokyo, Yale Law School, and Harvard Law School. In 2011, Dr. Allen will be a visiting professor at Tel-Aviv University in Israel.
The Dorsett Fellowship was established in 2001 when the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, in conjunction with Research Corporation Technologies, made a significant donation in honor of Burt Dorsett ’53, establishing an endowed fund. The purpose of the Dorsett fund is to honor the exemplary business career of Burt Dorsett by bringing practitioners of ethics (business leaders, physicians, engineers, etc.) and/or scholars of ethics to the Dartmouth campus. The Dorsett Fellows (listed below) have provided public lectures, guest lecturers in college courses, participated in faculty working groups, and spent time pursuing their own research while on campus.
Kenneth Feinberg, Spring 2011 (attorney/author/Special Master of the Federal September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001/Head of BP Claims Fund for 2010 gulf oil spill)
Tracy Kidder, Spring 2010 (Pulitzer Prize winning author)
Michael Beschloss, Fall 2008 (Presidential Historian, award-winning biographer)
Barbara Ehrenreich, Winter 2008 (author/investigative journalist)
Lee Bollinger, Fall 2005 (President of Columbia University)
Marcia Angell, Spring 2005 (Former Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, author)
Temple Grandin, Spring 2004 (animal rights activist, author)
Tom Chappell, Spring 2003 (founder and CEO of Tom’s of Maine)
