Robin Pierce, JD, PhD, contributes to the HealthLawProf Blog, and is joining Bill of Health as a regular contributor.
Robin is Senior Law Associate with the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law and Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. She was formerly on the faculty of Technische Universiteit Delft in The Netherlands where her work focused on the legal, ethical, and policy implications of advances in biotechnology, including policy issues in the integration of nanotechnology in health care, regulatory, policy, and ethical issues in governance of synthetic biology, and policy, legal, and ethical issues arising from advances in Alzheimer’s disease research, and neuroscience, in general. In 2014 Dr. Pierce was appointed Associate Editor for Science and Genetics with the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. In 2010 she was appointed Programme Leader for the Kluyver Center program on Society and Genomics in The Netherlands. She has taught across disciplines including such courses as Remedies (law), Social Issues in Biology, Ethic, Legal, and Social Issues in the Life Sciences, Public Health Ethics, and the Development of Legal and Political Institutions.
Representative Publications:
- Pierce, R. “Broader Challenges for Deep Brain Stimulation in the treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease”, American Journal of Bioethics, 5(4): 81-83 (2014).
- Pierce, R. “Comparative Architecture of Genetic Privacy.” Indiana International and Comparative Law Review, 9, no.1 (2009): 89-127.
- Pierce, R. “Considering the Long Term in the Short Term Use of fMRI in the Classroom.” American Journal of Bioethics, 9, no.1 (2009): 35-37.
- Pierce, R. “Whose Ethics of Knowledge?: Taking the Next Step in Evaluating Knowledge in Synthetic Biology – a response to Douglas and Savulescu” Journal of Medical Ethics, (2012).
- Pierce, R. “The Expressive Function of Public Health Policy”. (2011) Public Health Ethics, (4)1 (53-62).
- Pierce, R. “Queue-Jumping?: Do Mental Health Courts Privilege Criminal Behavior?” Journal of Ethics in Mental Health, 3, no. 2 (2008).
- Pierce, R. “Complex Calculations: Ethical Issues in Involving At-Risk Healthy Individuals in Dementia Research.” J Med Ethics, 36(9) (2010), 553-557.
- Pierce, R. “A Changing Landscape for Advance Directives in Dementia Research.” Social Science and Medicine 70, no. 4 (2010): 623-30.
- Pierce, R. “A Place for Ethics, A Place for Advocacy?” American Journal of Bioethics, 12(8) (2012).
