Anita L. Allen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Anita L. Allen

American lawyer

Date of Birth: 24-Mar-1953

Place of Birth: Port Townsend, Washington, United States

Profession: lawyer, philosopher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Anita LaFrance Allen (aka Allen-Castellitto (born March 24, 1953) is the Henry R.
Silverman Professor of Law and professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
She is also Vice Provost for Faculty.
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 has been elected to 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.
In 2010 President Barack Obama named Allen to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.
She is a Hastings Center Fellow.