American lawyer (born 1953)
Anita LaFrance Allen
(also
Allen-Castellitto
; born March 24, 1953
[1]
) is the
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
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
, a collaborating faculty member in
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
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Allen, was born in
Fort Worden
(
Port Townsend, Washington
). Her parents, Carrye Mae Allen (nee Cloud) and Grover Cleveland Allen, were both natives of
Atlanta, Georgia
. Allen's father made a career in the
United States Army
, serving in both the
Korean War
and the
Vietnam 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, including
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
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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
.
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Education
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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
M.A.
and
Ph.D.
in philosophy from the
University of Michigan
. Allen received training in analytic philosophy at the University of Michigan, where she also studied modern dance, alongside classmate
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
Harvard Law School
. While attending Harvard, Allen served as a teaching fellow for Professors
Michael Sandel
,
Ronald Dworkin
,
Robert Nozick
, and
Sissela Bok
. She worked as a summer law Associate at the
Gaston Snow Ely Bartlett
law firm in Boston and at
Milbank, 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 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
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Prior to joining the Penn faculty, Allen was professor and associate dean for research and scholarship at
Georgetown University Law Center
from 1987 to 1998, and an assistant professor of philosophy at
Carnegie Mellon University
from 1978 to 1981. She was the first African American woman to serve on the faculty of the
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
, 1985 to 1987. She has been a visiting faculty member at
Tel 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
, 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
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
, the
Electronic Privacy Information Center
, 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
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Books
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- Allen, Anita L. (1988).
Uneasy access: privacy for women in a free society
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- Allen, Anita L.; Regan, Jr., Milton C. (1998).
Debating "Democracy's Discontent": essays on American politics, law, and public philosophy
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- 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", in
Cudd, 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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- ^
date & year of birth, full name according to LCNAF
CIP
data
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Carlin Romano (October 23, 2007).
"A challenge for philosophy"
.
inquirer.com
. Retrieved
2020-03-03
.
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Rick Weiss (2010-04-08).
"President Announces Choices for New Bioethics Commission"
.
whitehouse.gov
. Retrieved
2020-03-03
.
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Ogilvie, Jenna (2016-10-17).
"National Academy of Medicine Elects 80 New Members"
.
National Academy of Medicine
. Retrieved
2020-03-03
.
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"Anita Allen receives Lifetime Achievement Award from privacy advocacy group EPIC"
.
University of Pennsylvania Law School
. May 29, 2014.
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"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
.
- ^
"The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2022"
.
- ^
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
. Retrieved
26 November
2019
.
- ^
"Brian Leiter Most Cited Law Professors by Specialty, 2000-2007"
.
www.LeiterRankings.com
. Retrieved
January 6,
2018
.
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"/404"
.
www.PublishersWeekly.com
. Retrieved
January 6,
2018
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