Biography

Director, Center for Law and the Biosciences; Professor (by courtesy) of Genetics, Stanford School of Medicine; Chair, Steering Committee of the Center for Biomedical Ethics; and Director, Stanford Interdisciplinary Group on Neuroscience and Society.

Hank Greely (BA '74) specializes in the ethical, legal, and social implications of new biomedical technologies, particularly those related to neuroscience, genetics, or stem cell research. He frequently serves as an advisor on California, national, and international policy issues. He is chair of California’s Human Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee and served from 2007-2010 as co-director of the Law and Neuroscience Project, funded by the MacArthur Foundation. Active in university leadership, Professor Greely chairs the steering committee for the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics and directs both the law school’s Center for Law and the Biosciences and the Stanford Interdisciplinary Group on Neuroscience and Society. In 2007 Professor Greely was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1985, Greely was a partner at Tuttle & Taylor, served as a staff assistant to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, and as special assistant to the general counsel of the U.S. Department of Defense. He served as a law clerk to Justice Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Court and to Judge John Minor Wisdom of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Greely is also a professor (by courtesy) of genetics at Stanford School of Medicine.

Key Works

• Henry T. Greely and Anthony D. Wagner, Reference Guide on Neuroscience, in Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, 3rd ed., Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press/Federal Judicial Center, 2011.
• Henry T. Greely, The Uneasy Ethical and Legal Underpinnings of Large-Scale Genomic Biobanks 8 Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics 343 (September 2007).
• Henry T. Greely and Judy Illes, Neuroscience-Based Lie Detection: The Urgent Need for Regulation, 33 American Journal of Law & Medicine 377 (2007).
• Henry T. Greely, Mildred K. Cho, Linda F. Hogle, Debra M. Satz, Thinking About the Human Neuron Mouse, 7 American Journal of Bioethics: Neuroethics 25 (2007).
• Henry T. Greely, The Social Consequences of Advances in Neuroscience: Legal Problems; Legal Perspectives in Neuroethics: Defining the Issues In Theory, Practice and Policy, Judy Illes, ed., Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Henry T. Greely, Genotype Discrimination: The Complex Case for Some Legislative Protection, 149 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1483-1505 (2001).

In the News

• Decoding Your Brain
  The Portland Tribune, February 23, 2012
• Insight: New DNA Reader To Bring Promise
  Reuters, January 10, 2012
• Should Bird Flu Research Be Kept From The Public?
  KQED - Forum with Michael Krasny, December 23, 2011

Courses & Programs

Courses

• Contracts
• FDA's Regulation of Health Care
• Health Law & Policy I
• Health Law & Policy II
• Law and Biosciences
• Law and the Biosciences: Genetics

Programs

• Center for Law and the Biosciences, Director
• Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology, Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications View All

• Henry T. Greely, Foreword, in Neuroimaging in Forensic Psychiatry: From the Clinic to the Courtroom, Joseph R. Simpson, editor, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
• Hank Greely, Direct Brain Interventions to "Treat" Disfavored Human Behaviors: Ethical and Social Issues, 91 Clincal Pharmacology and Therapeutics 163 (2012).
• Hank Greely, Remembering the Sheep that Changed the World, Aljazeera, February 28, 2012.
• Henry T. Greely, Designer Eggs and Stem Cell Sausage, 25 GeneWatch 19 (2012).
• Hank Greely, The Equality of Allocation by Lot, in Lotteries in Public Life: A Reader, Peter Stone, editor, Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic, 2011.
• Reana Tischler, Louanne Hudgins, Yair J. Blumenfeld, Henry T. Greely and Kelly E. Ormond, Noninvasive Prenatal Diagnosis: Pregnant Women's Interest and Expected Uptake , 31 Prenatal Diagnosis 1292 (2011).
• Henry T. Greely and Anthony D. Wagner, Reference Guide on Neuroscience, in Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, 3rd ed., Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press/Federal Judicial Center, 2011.
• Henry T. Greely, Human/Nonhuman Chimeras: Assessing the Issues, in Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics, editors, Tom L. Beauchamp and R.G. Frey, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
• Hank Greely, Thoughts on the Eleventh Circuit Health-Care Law Ruling, Scope Blog, August 12, 2011.
• Hank Greely, Law and the Biosciences, 84 The Stanford Lawyer 36 (Spring 2011).

Affiliations & Honors

Professional Affiliations

• Chair (1996-Present), Steering Committee, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics (SCBE)
• Chair (2002-2003), Stanford Faculty Senate
• Chair, Working Group on Stem Cell Research Policy Implementation
• Co-chair, Stanford Program in Organizing Neuroethics Education and Research
• Director, Stanford Program on Stem Cells in Society, SCBE
• Ethics Chair, North American Committee, Human Genome Diversity Project
• Ethics Officer, World Cell Line Collection 1 (Collaboration between the Human Genome Diversity Project and the Centre de l'Etude de Polymorphism Humain

• Member, Center for Integrating Research in Genetics and Ethics, SCBE
• Member, Stanford Program on Neuroethics, SCBE
• Member, Working Group on Human Trials of Cell Based Interventions for Neurological Conditons, John Hopkins University
• Member (2002-Present), Faculty Leadership Council, Bio-X Program
• Member, Scientific Advisory Committee and Ethics Advisory Committees, Deparment of Veterans' Affairs, DNA Bank Project
• Member, Genetics Advisory Board, Deparment of Veterans' Affairs, BEST Study
• Member, Ethics Committee, American Society for Gene Therapy
• Member, Ethics Committee, International Society for Stem Cell Research
• Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, Stem Cell Network (Canada)
• Member, Ethics Advisory Board, Affymetrix, Inc.
• Member, Executive Committee, France Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
• Member, Steering Committee, Neuroscience Institute at Stanford
• Member, Advisory Committee, Stanford Institute for Clinical Information
• Member, Advisory Committee, Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Member, Executive Committee, Stanford Program in Regenerative Medicine
• Member, Operations Subcommittee
• Member, Bioethics Subcommittee