Director, Center for Law and the Biosciences, Stanford Law School

Henry T. (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 legal and social issues arising from advances in the biosciences and in health law and policy.  He has written on issues concerning genetic testing and discrimination, the ethics of human genetics research, human stem cell research, and ethical and legal issues in neuroscience, among other things.  He chairs the steering committee of the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics and directs the Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences and the Stanford Program on Stem Cells and Society.

This talk surveys contemporary American law in search of arguable rights to human biological enhancing technology, as well as the general regulatory situation.  It concludes that only limited circumstances currently exist where such rights could plausibly be asserted.