Professor Hank Greely

Professor of Law, Stanford University

Interests

Too varied to summarize but for present purposes, 'odd" forms of life or "quasi-life", what we should do about them, and how we should think about them.

Background

Henry T. (Hank) Greely is the Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law; Professor, by courtesy, of Genetics; and Director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford University. He specializes in ethical, legal, and social issues arising from the biosciences. He is a founder and a past President of the International Neuroethics Society; chairs the California Advisory Committee on Human Stem Cell Research; chairs the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Committee of the Earth BioGenome Project; and serves on the NIH BRAIN Initiative’s Multi-Council Working Group while co-chairing the Initiative’s Neuroethics Work Group. He is the author of THE END OF SEX AND THE FUTURE OF HUMAN REPRODUCTION (Harv. Univ. Press 2016) and CRISPR PEOPLE: THE SCIENCE AND ETHICS OF EDITING HUMANS (MIT Press 2021).

Greely graduated from Stanford in 1974 and Yale Law School in 1977. He clerked for Judge John Minor Wisdom of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Potter Stewart, then served in the Departments of Defense and Energy in the Carter Administration. He litigated at the Los Angeles firm of Tuttle & Taylor before joining the Stanford faculty in 1985.

Contact

hgreely@stanford.edu

@HankGreelyLSJU