Hank Greely

Henry T. (Hank) Greely is the Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law; Professor, by courtesy, of Genetics; and Director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford University.  He specializes in ethical, legal, and social issues arising from the biosciences.  He is a founder and immediate past President of the International Neuroethics Society; chairs the California Advisory Committee on Human Stem Cell Research; chairs the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Committee of the Earth BioGenome Project; and serves on the National Academy of Sciences Committees on Developing a Research Agenda and Research Governance Approaches for Climate Intervention Strategies that Reflect Sunlight to Cool Earth and on Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Issues Associated with Neural Chimeras and Organoids. He serves on the NIH BRAIN Initiative’s Multi-Council Working Group and co-chairs the Initiative’s Neuroethics Work Group. He published The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction in 2016. His next book, CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans, will be published in February 2021. 

Professor Greely graduated from Stanford in 1974 and Yale Law School in 1977.  He served as a law clerk for Judge John Minor Wisdom on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Justice Potter Stewart of the United States Supreme Court.  After working during the Carter Administration in the Departments of Defense and Energy, he entered private law practice in Los Angeles in 1981.  He joined the Stanford faculty in 1985.