Meet the Editors – Glenn Cohen

Welcome to our blog! We just wanted to introduce ourselves as the editors and thank you for stopping by.  We hope you’ll do so often.

First, say hi to I. Glenn Cohen.

Glenn is Professor at Harvard Law School and Faculty Co-Director of the Petrie-Flom Center.  This year, he’s also a Radcliffe Institute fellow, and from 2012-2015, he will be a Greenwall Faculty Scholar.

Glenn is one of the world’s leading experts on the intersection of bioethics and the law, as well as health law. From Seoul to Krakow to Vancouver, he has spoken at legal, medical, and industry conferences around the world, and his work has been covered on PBS, NPR, ABC, Mother Jones, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and several other media venues.

Glenn’s current projects relate to reproduction/reproductive technology and to medical tourism – the travel of patients who are residents of one country, the “home country,” to another country, the “destination country,” for medical treatment. His past work has included projects on end of life decision-making, FDA regulation, research ethics, and commodification.  His award-winning academic work has appeared in the journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Stanford, Southern California, Georgetown Cornell, Minnesota, Iowa, and Hastings Law Reviews, the Harvard Journal of Law and Negotiation, the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, the Food and Drug Law Journal, the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, the American Journal of Public Health, and the Hastings Center Report.  He is the editor of “The Globalization of Healthcare: Legal and Ethical Challenges” (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming 2012), and is currently working on writing a new book “Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Ethics, and Law”.

Prior to joining the HLS faculty, Glenn served as a clerk to Chief Judge Michael Boudin, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He also served as an appellate attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate staff, where he acted as lead counsel in over 12 Circuit Court cases and represented the United States in the U.S. Supreme Court, in conjunction with the Solicitor General’s office. Immediately before joining the faculty he was a fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center.

Some of Glenn’s representative work includes:

• Circumvention Tourism
• Regulating Reproduction: The Problem with Best Interests
• The Constitution and the Rights Not To Procreate
• Response: Rethinking Sperm-Donor Anonymity: Of Changed Selves, Nonidentity, and One-Night Stands