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Michelle N. Meyer, Ph.D., J.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
The Bioethics Program
Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics
Health Policy, and Law
Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and Georgetown University Law Center
Institute Fellow
Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government
Michelle N. Meyer received her A.B., summa cum laude and with highest honors, from Dartmouth College. She then earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Religious Studies (bioethics concentration) at the University of Virginia. After completing her doctoral studies, she was a Research Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, where she published on issues related to DNA and the criminal justice system, including postconviction testing and offender databases. She then earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and a founding co-editor of the Harvard Law Review Forum. Following law school, she clerked for the Honorable Stanley Marcus of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She has written on stem cell research, research ethics, and genetics. Her current research concerns the purported federal constitutional "right to procreate."
Recent Publications
Michelle N. Meyer & James W. Fossett, The More Things Change: The New NIH Guidelines on Stem Cell Research, 19 Kennedy Inst. of Ethics J. (Sept. 2009)
James W. Fossett & Michelle N. Meyer, Bioethics Panel's Role May Be Small on Policy, Big on Issues, Rockfeller Institute of Government (July 2009)
Michelle N. Meyer, States' Regulation of Assisted Reproductive Technologies: What Does the U.S. Constitution Allow?, Rockefeller Institute of Government (July 2009)
James W. Fossett & Michelle N. Meyer, The Next President's Council on Bioethics: Who Cares What It Does?, The Hastings Center Bioethics Forum, June 26, 2009
Michelle N. Meyer, Throwing the Baby Out with the Amniotic Fluid, SCIENCE PROGRESS (May 5, 2009)
Michelle N. Meyer, The Kindness of Strangers: The Donative Contract Between Subjects and Researchers and the Non-Obligation to Return Individual Results of Genetic Research, 8 AM. J. OF BIOETHICS 44 (2008)
Michelle N. Meyer, The Plaintiff as Person: Cause Lawyering, Human Subject Research, and the Secret Agent Problem, 119 HARV. L. REV. 1510 (2006)
Michelle N. Meyer, Icelandic Supreme Court Holds That Inclusion of an Individuals Genetic Information in a National Database Infringes on the Privacy Interests of His Child: Guomundsdottir v. Iceland , No. 151/2003 (Nov. 27, 2003) (Ice.), 118 HARV. L. REV. 810 (2004)
David Lazer & Michelle N. Meyer, DNA and the Criminal Justice System: Consensus and Debate, in DNA and the Criminal Justice System: The Technology of Justice 357 (David Lazer ed., MIT Press 2004)
Michelle N. Meyer, Summary of Presentations on Religious Perspectives Relating to Research Involving Human Stem Cells, May 7, 1999, in Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research, vol. I, App. E, pp. 99-104 (National Bioethics Advisory Commission ed., 1999)
Recent Activities
"The Researcher-Subject Relationship As Governed By Donative Contract: A Middle Position In The Debate Over Returning Individual Research Results." Paper presented at American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities (ASBH) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., October 16, 2009
"Our Posthuman Future and the Future of Substantive Due Process Jurisprudence: Prenatal Genetic Enhancement, Procreative Liberty, and Parental Liberty." Panel presentation at American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities (ASBH) Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH, October 24, 2008
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