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Anita L. Allen

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American lawyer (born 1953)
Anita L. Allen
Born
Anita LaFrance Allen

(1953-03-24)March 24, 1953 (age 72)
EducationNew College of Florida (BA)
University of Michigan (MA,PhD)
Harvard University (JD)
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School
Doctoral advisorRichard Brandt
Main interests
Legal philosophy
Notable ideas
Philosophy ofprivacy

Anita LaFrance Allen (alsoAllen-Castellitto; born March 24, 1953[1]) is theHenry R. Silverman Professor of Law and professor of philosophy at theUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School. She was formerly Vice Provost for Faculty from 2013 to 2020.

She has been a senior fellow in the former bioethics department of theUniversity of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, a collaborating faculty member inAfricana Studies, and an affiliated faculty member in the gender, sexuality and women's studies program.

She is affiliated with the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, the Warren Center, and the Center for Technology Innovation and Competition at Penn. She has been elected to the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Law Institute, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She served as President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2018–19.

She won the Philip L. Quinn Prize of the American Philosophical Association in 2021, the organization's highest honor for service to Philosophers and Philosophy. In 2010, President Barack Obama named Allen to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. She is also aHastings Center Fellow.

Biography

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Allen, was born inFort Worden (Port Townsend, Washington). Her parents, Carrye Mae Allen (née Cloud) and Grover Cleveland Allen, were both natives ofAtlanta, Georgia. Allen's father made a career in theUnited States Army, serving in both theKorean War and theVietnam War. Her father was a member of "Operation Kapers," a squad of enlisted men who entertained combat soldiers in Korea with song, dance, and comedy. Allen spent her childhood living on military bases, includingFort Benning, Georgia, andSchofield Barracks, Hawaii.

Allen was one of six children, all of whom pursued careers in law, engineering, the military or government service.

Marriage and family

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A marriage in 1982 to artist Michael Kelly Williams ofDetroit,Michigan ended in divorce. Allen was the model for Williams' woodcut,Afternoon of a Georgia Faun. An original version of the woodcut was printed at the printmaking workshop ofRobert Blackburn and now is held in the permanent print collection of theLibrary of Congress in Washington, D.C.

In 1985, Allen married Paul Vincent Castellitto, a lawyer fromMount Vernon andNew Rochelle, New York, who specialized inwhite collar criminal defense law, and later became a college instructor specializing in ethics. The pair raised two children.

Education

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Allen graduated an honor student fromBaker High School inColumbus, Georgia, in 1970 in three years. Allen holds aB.A. fromNew College of Florida, on whose board of trustees she later served. Allen has twice delivered the commencement address at New College. While enrolled at New College, Allen spent a year studying in Italy and Germany. Under the direction of ProfessorBryan Norton, she completed an undergraduate thesis on the philosophy of logical positivistRudolf Carnap. She studied American Philosophy under Professor Gresham Riley.

Allen received herM.A. andPh.D. in philosophy from theUniversity of Michigan. Allen received training in analytic philosophy at the University of Michigan, where she also studied modern dance, alongside classmateMadonna.

ProfessorRichard Brandt, a noted proponent of moral utilitarianism, advised Allen's doctoral thesis, "Rights, Children and Education." Her dissertation examined Thomas Hobbes' and John Locke's theories of parental authority, and the moral ideal of a right to education. She argued for greater autonomy for children. Allen was one of the first African-American women to earn a PhD in philosophy, along withAngela Davis,Joyce Mitchell Cook,LaVerne Shelton, andAdrian Piper. She is the first African-American woman to hold both aJ.D. and Ph.D. in philosophy.

Allen received her J.D. fromHarvard Law School. While attending Harvard, Allen served as a teaching fellow for ProfessorsMichael Sandel,Ronald Dworkin,Robert Nozick, andSissela Bok. She worked as a summer law Associate at theGaston Snow Ely Bartlett law firm in Boston and atMilbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in New York.

Honors and awards

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Allen is one of several successful black professionals whose experiences and perspectives have been profiled in books includingLaurel Holliday'sChildren of the Dream (2000),Ellis Cose'sThe Rage of a Privileged Class (1994),George Yancy'sAfrican American Philosophers: 17 Conversations (1998,) andElwood Watson:Outsiders Within (2008). She was featured inCarlin Romano's 2007 article, "A Challenge for Philosophy." Of her, he writes, "Penn's Anita Allen is at the top of her field, but she has serious concerns about its lack of openness and diversity."[2]

In 2010 PresidentBarack Obama appointed Allen to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.[3] In 2016 Allen was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.[4]

In 2014,Electronic Privacy Information Center awarded Allen the EPIC Lifetime Achievement Award and described her as "the nation's leading privacy scholar".[5]

In 2017 Allen was elected vice president and president elect of the Eastern Division of theAmerican Philosophical Association, the first African American woman to hold the post in any division of the association. In 2019 Allen was elected to theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences.[6]

In 2019 Allen received an honorary doctorate fromTilburg University for her contributions to legal philosophy, women's rights, and diversity in higher education. In 2021 she received an honorary degree from the College of Wooster.

Allen was elected to theAmerican Philosophical Society in 2022.[7]

Professional career

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Prior to joining the Penn faculty, Allen was professor and associate dean for research and scholarship atGeorgetown University Law Center from 1987 to 1998, and an assistant professor of philosophy atCarnegie Mellon University from 1978 to 1981. She was the first African American woman to serve on the faculty of theUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Law, 1985 to 1987. She has been a visiting faculty member atTel Aviv University,Waseda University Law School in Tokyo,Johns Hopkins School of Public Health,University of Washington,Hofstra Law School,University of Arizona College of Law,Princeton University,Yale Law School,Villanova University School of Law, andHarvard Law School. In 2022 she will be a visiting professor in the School of Government at Oxford. 2023 she will be a distinguished visiting professor at Fordham Law School. In 2024 she will be the Hart Fellow at University College, Oxford, and will also deliver the H.L. A Hart Memorial Lecture.

Allen is an expert onprivacy law,[8] the philosophy ofprivacy, contemporary ethics and bioethics. She is also recognized for scholarship about legal philosophy, women's rights, and race relations.[9]

She has received fellowships from Princeton's Program in Law and Public Affairs, theAmerican Council of Learned Societies, theAmerican Association of University Women, and theFord Foundation.

Allen is a member of the Pennsylvania and New York bars. She briefly practiced law withCravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City in 1984 and 1985.

Allen has served on the board of directors of several charities and professional associations, including the American Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, theBazelon Center for Mental Health Law, theElectronic Privacy Information Center, theHastings Center, the Maternity Care Coalition, the National Association for Women Lawyer's Judicial Evaluation Committee, and the West Philadelphia Alliance for Children. She was a member of the National Advisory Committee for Human Genome Research, and served on the IRB of the NIH Precision Medicine Initiative, ALL of US

Allen has been invited to lecture at colleges and universities across the United States and in Canada, Europe, Australia, Japan, Israel, and Taiwan. She has appeared onThe Ethical Edge,20/20,Nightline,Good Morning America,60 Minutes,Face the Nation,Talk of the Nation, and other television and radio programs. She has written for the popular press, includingO, the Oprah magazine; the Daily Beast.com, and theNewark Star Ledger.

Bibliography

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Books

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  • Allen, Anita L. (1988).Uneasy access: privacy for women in a free society.
  • Allen, Anita L.; Regan, Jr., Milton C. (1998).Debating "Democracy's Discontent": essays on American politics, law, and public philosophy.
  • Allen, Anita L.; Turkington, Richard C. (2002).Privacy law: cases and materials.
  • Allen, Anita L. (2003).Why privacy isn't everything: feminist reflections on personal accountability.
  • Allen, Anita L. (2004).The new ethics: a guided tour of the 21st century moral landscape.[10]
  • Allen, Anita L. (2011) [2007].Privacy law and society.
  • Allen, Anita L. (2011).Unpopular privacy: what must we hide?.

Chapters in books

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  • Allen, Anita L. (2005), "Forgetting yourself", inCudd, Ann E.; Andreasen, Robin O. (eds.),Feminist theory: a philosophical anthology, Oxford, UK Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 352–364,ISBN 9781405116619.

References

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  1. ^date & year of birth, full name according to LCNAFCIP data
  2. ^Carlin Romano (October 23, 2007)."A challenge for philosophy".inquirer.com. Retrieved2020-03-03.
  3. ^Rick Weiss (2010-04-08)."President Announces Choices for New Bioethics Commission".whitehouse.gov. Retrieved2020-03-03.
  4. ^Ogilvie, Jenna (2016-10-17)."National Academy of Medicine Elects 80 New Members".National Academy of Medicine. Retrieved2020-03-03.
  5. ^"Anita Allen receives Lifetime Achievement Award from privacy advocacy group EPIC".University of Pennsylvania Law School. May 29, 2014.
  6. ^"2019 Fellows and International Honorary Members with their affiliations at the time of election".members.amacad.org. Archived fromthe original on 2020-03-02. Retrieved2020-03-03.
  7. ^"The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2022".
  8. ^McClain, Linda (2019).""'Male Chauvinism' Is Under Attack From All Sides at Present": Roberts v. United States Jaycees, Sex Discrimination, and the First Amendment".Fordham Law Review.87 (published May 2019): 2387, n. 23.ISSN 0015-704X. Retrieved26 November 2019.
  9. ^"Brian Leiter Most Cited Law Professors by Specialty, 2000-2007".www.LeiterRankings.com. RetrievedJanuary 6, 2018.
  10. ^"/404".www.PublishersWeekly.com. RetrievedJanuary 6, 2018.

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