Anita L. Allen

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Anita L. Allen
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Philosophy of privacy

Anita LaFrance Allen (also Allen-Castellitto; born March 24, 1953

Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and professor of philosophy at the University 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 the

Africana 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 a

Hastings Center
Fellow.

Biography

Allen, was born in

Fort Benning, Georgia, and Schofield Barracks
, Hawaii.

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

Marriage and family

A marriage in 1982 to artist Michael Kelly Williams of Detroit, 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 of Robert Blackburn and now is held in the permanent print collection of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

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

In 2006, Allen became an elder of the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church.[citation needed]

Education

Allen graduated an honor student from

Baker High School in Columbus, Georgia, in 1970 in three years. Allen holds a B.A. from New 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 Professor Bryan Norton, she completed an undergraduate thesis on the philosophy of logical positivist Rudolf Carnap
. She studied American Philosophy under Professor Gresham Riley.

Allen received her

Madonna
.

Professor Richard 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 with Angela Davis, Joyce Mitchell Cook, LaVerne Shelton, and Adrian Piper. She is the first African-American woman to hold both a J.D. and Ph.D. in philosophy.

Allen received her J.D. from

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
in New York.

Honors and awards

Allen is one of several successful black professionals whose experiences and perspectives have been profiled in books including Laurel Holliday's Children of the Dream (2000), Ellis Cose's The Rage of a Privileged Class (1994), George Yancy's African American Philosophers: 17 Conversations (1998,) and Elwood Watson: Outsiders Within (2008). She was featured in Carlin 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 President Barack 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 the American Philosophical Association, the first African American woman to hold the post in any division of the association. In 2019 Allen was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[6]

In 2019 Allen received an honorary doctorate from Tilburg 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 the American Philosophical Society in 2022.[7]

Professional career

Prior to joining the Penn faculty, Allen was professor and associate dean for research and scholarship at

University of Arizona College of Law, Princeton University, Yale Law School, Villanova University School of Law, and Harvard 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 on privacy law,[8] the philosophy of privacy, 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, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Association of University Women, and the Ford Foundation.

Allen is a member of the Pennsylvania and New York bars. She briefly practiced law with Cravath, 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, the

Hastings 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 on The 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, including O, the Oprah magazine; the Daily Beast.com, and the Newark Star Ledger.

Bibliography

Books

  • 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

  • Allen, Anita L. (2005), "Forgetting yourself", in
    ISBN 9781405116619
    .

References

  1. ^ date & year of birth, full name according to LCNAF CIP data
  2. ^ Carlin Romano (October 23, 2007). "A challenge for philosophy". inquirer.com. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  3. ^ Rick Weiss (2010-04-08). "President Announces Choices for New Bioethics Commission". whitehouse.gov. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  4. ^ Ogilvie, Jenna (2016-10-17). "National Academy of Medicine Elects 80 New Members". National Academy of Medicine. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  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 from the original on 2020-03-02. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  7. ^ "The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2022".
  8. ISSN 0015-704X
    . Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  9. ^ "Brian Leiter Most Cited Law Professors by Specialty, 2000-2007". www.LeiterRankings.com. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
  10. ^ "/404". www.PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved January 6, 2018.

External links

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