Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law and Professor, by courtesy, of Genetics at Stanford University
The End of Sex: The Future of Human Reproduction
Hank Greely is the Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law and Professor, by courtesy, of Genetics at Stanford University. He specializes in ethical, legal, and social issues arising from advances in the biosciences, particularly from genetics, neuroscience, and human stem cell research. He directs the Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences and the Stanford Program on Neuroscience in Society; chairs the California Advisory Committee on Human Stem Cell Research; and serves on the Neuroscience Forum for General Medical Sciences of NIH, the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law of the National Academy of Sciences, and the NIH Multi-Council Working Group on the BRAIN Initiative. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2007.
Professor Greely graduated from Stanford University in 1974 and from Yale Law School in 1977. He served as a law clerk for Judge Minor Wisdom on the United States Court of Appeals and for Justice Potter Stewart of the United States Supreme Court.
After working during the Carter Administration in the Department of Defense and Energy, he entered private practice in Los Angeles in 1981 as a litigator with the law firm Tuttle & Taylor, Inc. He began teaching at Stanford in 1985.