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I. Glenn Cohen (born 1978 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Professor of Law at
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. He is also the director of Harvard Law School's Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics.I. Glenn Cohen. Harvard Law School Personal Biography Page
/ref> Cohen has written a number of articles, appearing in journals such as the
New England Journal of Medicine ''The New England Journal of Medicine'' (''NEJM'') is a weekly medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It is among the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals as well as the oldest continuously published one. His ...
;
JAMA ''The Journal of the American Medical Association'' (''JAMA'') is a peer-reviewed medical journal published 48 times a year by the American Medical Association. It publishes original research, reviews, and editorials covering all aspects of biom ...
;
Cell Cell most often refers to: * Cell (biology), the functional basic unit of life Cell may also refer to: Locations * Monastic cell, a small room, hut, or cave in which a religious recluse lives, alternatively the small precursor of a monastery ...
;
Nature Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans are ...
; the
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, Stanford, Southern California, 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; and the Hastings Center Reports. He has given interviews and been cited by the
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,
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, CNN,
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,
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,
The Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...
, Mother Jones,
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, PBS, and
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.


Background and education

After graduating from Bialik High School in 1996, Cohen attended the
University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...
where he received an Hon. B.A. in Bioethics (Philosophy) and Psychology in 2000. He served as a Primary Editor on the
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and published two student notes. He received his J.D., magna cum laude in 2003. He served as a law clerk for Judge
Michael Boudin Michael Boudin ( ; born November 29, 1939) is a former United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He served as Chief Judge of that court from 2001 to 2008. Before his service on the First Circuit, he ...
of the
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from 2003–2004 and then worked on the Appellate Staff in the Civil Division of the
United States Department of Justice The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United Stat ...
from 2004-2006.


Academic career

In 2006, Cohen returned to Harvard as an Academic Fellow & Lecturer On Law at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. Upon completing his fellowship, in 2008, Cohen became a tenure-track professor at Harvard Law School and was tenured as a full professor in 2013. Cohen's work lies at the intersection of law and bioethics. His current projects focus on
big data Though used sometimes loosely partly because of a lack of formal definition, the interpretation that seems to best describe Big data is the one associated with large body of information that we could not comprehend when used only in smaller am ...
, health information technology, technology in medicine, telemedicine,
rationing Rationing is the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, services, or an artificial restriction of demand. Rationing controls the size of the ration, which is one's allowed portion of the resources being distributed on a particular ...
in law and medicine, FDA law, and
medical tourism Medical tourism refers to people traveling abroad to obtain medical treatment. In the past, this usually referred to those who traveled from less-developed countries to major medical centers in highly developed countries for treatment unavailable a ...
. Cohen was selected as a
Radcliffe Institute Fellow The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University—also known as the Harvard Radcliffe Institute—is a part of Harvard University that fosters interdisciplinary research across the humanities, sciences, social sciences, arts, a ...
for the 2012-2013 year and is a fellow at the
Hastings Center The Hastings Center is an independent, nonpartisan bioethics research institute and think tank based in Garrison, New York. It was instrumental in establishing the field of bioethics and is among the most prestigious bioethics and health policy i ...
, one of the leading bioethics think tanks in the United States. He is also one of the lead co-investigators in the NFL Football Players Health Study at
Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
. He spearheads the Ethics and Law initiative at Harvard Catalyst, an
NIH The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...
-supported clinical and translation science initiative. He is a board member of the
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, Law, Medicine, and Health Care Section Executive Committee and served as a board member of the Institutional Review Board for
Fenway Health Fenway Health (formally Fenway Community Health Center, Inc.) is an LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) health care, research and advocacy organization founded by Northeastern University students and headquartered in Boston, Massachusett ...
from 2007-2010. He became co-editor-in-chief of The Journal of Law and the Biosciences in 2013 and has served as a peer reviewer in the
New England Journal of Medicine ''The New England Journal of Medicine'' (''NEJM'') is a weekly medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It is among the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals as well as the oldest continuously published one. His ...
and
The Lancet ''The Lancet'' is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal and one of the oldest of its kind. It is also the world's highest-impact academic journal. It was founded in England in 1823. The journal publishes original research articles ...
.


Mentions in the Supreme Court

Cohen authored the "Lander Brief" that was discussed extensively at oral argument in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., which held that naturally occurring DNA sequences could not be patented.


Books & Chapters

*FDA in the Twenty-First Century: The Challenges of Regulating Drugs and New Technologies (co-edited with Holly Fernandez Lynch) (Columbia University Press 2016) *''From Medical Experimentation to Non-Medical Experimentation: What Can and Cannot be Learned from Medicine as to the Ethics of Legal and Other Non-Medical Experiments?, in'' Medical Experimentation: Personal Integrity and Social Policy, New Edition (2016) (Co-Authored with James D. Greiner) *Nudging Health: Health Law and Behavioral Economics (2016) (Co-Edited with Holly Fernandez Lynch and Christopher T. Robertson) *''Sperm and Egg Donor Anonymity: Legal and Ethical Issues'', ''in'' The Oxford Handbook of Reproductive Ethics (2015-2016) *The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Care Law (2015-2016) (Co-Edited with Bill Sage and Allison Hoffman) *''Medical Tourism for Services Legal in the Home and Destination Country: Legal and Ethical Issues, in'' Bodies Across Borders: The Global Circulation of Body Parts, Medical tourists and Professionals (2015) *''Medical Tourism for Services Illegal in Patients’ Home Country'', ''in'' Handbook on Medical Tourism and Patient Mobility (2015) *Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics (2014) *''Medical Tourism: Bioethical and Legal Issues, in'' Routledge Companion to Bioethics (2014) *''Was the Medicaid Expansion Coercive?'', ''in'' The Affordable Care Act Decision: Philosophical and Legal Implications (2014) *Human Subjects Research Regulation: Perspectives on the Future (2014) (Co-Edited with Holly Fernandez Lynch) *''Las Recientes Controversias sobre la Tecnología Reproductiva en los Estados Unidos, in'' I. Glenn Cohen & Ester Farnos Amorós, Derecho y tecnologías reproductivas (2014) *''Las Fronteras del Derecho Sanitario: Globalización y Turismo Médico'', ''in'' Las Fronteras del Derecho Bio-sanitario, Anuario de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2014) *The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Challenges (Oxford University Press 2013) (editor, and contributing introduction and chapter) *''Medical Outlaws or Medical Refugees? An Examination of Circumvention Tourism'', ''in'' Risks and Challenges in Medical Tourism: Understanding the Global Market for Health Services Controversies in the Exploding Industry of Global Medicine (2012)


Selected publications

*''Going Germline: Mitochondrial Replacement as a Guide to Genome Editing'', Cell (2016) (Co-Authored with Eli Y. Adashi) *''Effect of a Legal Prime on Clinician's Assessment of Suicide Risk'', Death Studies (2016) (Co-Authored with N.C. Berman, E.S. Tung, N. Matheny, and S. Wilhelm) *''Transatlantic Lessons in Regulation of Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy'', Science (2015) (Co-Authored with Julian Savulescu & Eli Y. Adashi) *''My Body, My Bank'', Texas Law Review (2015) *''Complexifying Commodification, Consumption, ART, and Abortion'', Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics (2015) *''Balancing Religious Freedom and Health Care Access'', Lahey Health Journal of Medical Ethics (2015) (Co-Authored with Holly Fernandez Lynch) *''Make it Work! Breyer on Patents in the Life Sciences'', Harvard Law Review (2014) *''The Legal and Ethical Concerns that Arise from Using Complex Predictive Analytics in Health Care'', Health Affairs (2014) (Co-Authored with Bernard Lo, Ruben Amarasingham, Bin Xie, and Anand Shah) *''When Religious Freedom Clashes with Access to Care'', New England Journal of Medicine (2014) (Co-Authored with Holly Fernandez Lynch & Gregory D. Curfman) *''Organs Without Borders? Allocating Transplant Organs, Foreign, and the Importance of the Nation State (?)'', Law and Contemporary Problems (2014) (symposium) *''Conscientious Objection, Coercion, the Affordable Care Act, and U.S. States'', Ethical Perspectives (2013) *''Marking Residency Work Hours Rule Work'', Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics (2013) (Co-Authored with Charles A. Czeisler and Christopher P. Landrigan) *''The Science, Fiction, and Science Fiction of Unsexed Motherhood, Online Symposium'', Harvard Journal of Law & Gender Online (2012) *''Circumvention Tourism'', Cornell Law Review (2012) *''Can the Government Ban Organ Sale? Recent Court Challenges and Future of U.S. Law on Selling Human Organs and Other Tissues'', American Journal of Transplantation (2012) *''Medical Tourism, Access to Health Care, and Global Justice'', Virginia Journal of International Law (2011) *''Prohibiting Anonymous Sperm Donation and the Child Welfare Error'', Hastings Center Report (2011) *''Human Embryonic Stem-Cell Research Under Siege — Battle Won but Not the War'', New England Journal of Medicine (2011) *''Fetal Pain, Abortion, Viability and the Constitution'', Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (2011)(Co-Authored with Sadath Sayeed) *''Trading-Off Reproductive Technology and Adoption: Does Subsidizing IVF Decrease Adoption Rates and Should It Matter?'' Minnesota Law Review (2010) (Co-authored with Daniel Chen) *''Protecting Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism and the Patient-Protective Argument'', Iowa Law Review (2010) *''Medical Tourism: The View from Ten Thousand Feet'', Hastings Center Report (2010) *''Well, What About the Children? Best Interests Reasoning, the New Eugenics, and the Regulation of Reproduction'', Gruter Institute Squal Valley Conference (2010) *''The Constitution and the Rights not to Procreate'', Stanford Law Review (2008) *''The Right Not to Be a Genetic Parent?'', Southern California Law Review (2008) *''Intentional Diminishment, the Non-Identity Problem, and Legal Liability'', Hastings Law Journal (2008) *''Negotiating Death: ADR and End of Life Decision-making'', Harvard Negotiation Law Review (2004) *Note, ''The Price of Everything, the Value of Nothing: Reframing the Commodification Debate'', Harvard Law Review (2003) *''Therapeutic Orphans, Pediatric Victims? The Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act and Existing Pediatric Human Subject Protection'', Food & Drug Law Journal (2003) *''Gore, Gibson, and Goldsmith: The Evolution of Internet Metaphors in Law and Commentary'', Harvard Journal of Law & Technology (2002) (Co-authored with Jonathan Blavin) *Recent Case, ''Supreme Court of New Jersey Holds that Preembryo Disposition Agreements are Not Binding When One Party Later Objects - J.B. V. M.B.'', Harvard Law Review (2001)SSRN page for ''Supreme Court of New Jersey Holds that Preembryo Disposition Agreements are Not Binding When One Party Later Objects - J.B. V. M.B.''
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References


External links


The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
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