Biography
4:15pm – 6:15pm, Tuesday, April 6, 2027
Title: Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Website: https://www.law.upenn.edu/faculty/aallen2/
Bio: Anita L. Allen is the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus. A graduate of Harvard Law with a PhD from the University of Michigan in Philosophy, Allen is internationally renowned as an expert on philosophical and social justice dimensions of privacy and data protection law; ethics; bioethics; legal philosophy; women’s reproductive rights; and faculty advancement. She was Penn’s Vice Provost for Faculty from 2013-2020 and chaired the Provost’s Arts Advisory Council. Allen was named the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University for the 2025-26 academic year; and will be a Resident Fellow at the Green College of the University of British Columbia in the fall of 2026.
Allen has published over 130 articles and chapters, and her books include Unpopular Privacy: What Must We Hide (Oxford, 2011); Privacy Law and Society (Thomson/West, 2017); The New Ethics: A Guided Tour of the 21st Century Moral Landscape (Miramax/Hyperion, 2004); Why Privacy Isn’t Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), and Uneasy Access: Privacy of Women in a Free Society (Rowman & Littlefield, 1988).
