Allison Whelan, JD, MA Bioethics

Allison M. Whelan, JD, MA Bioethics, is an Assistant Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law. She received her JD from University of Minnesota Law School and her Masters in Bioethics from University of Minnesota. Her research and teaching encompass a broad set of medical, science, and social policy issues at the intersection of administrative law, health and FDA law, reproductive justice, constitutional law, and bioethics. Through her work, she aims to identify the public, private, legal, and ethical factors that converge and influence the topics she writes about. In an era of political polarization and distrust. Her work also explores whether and how the administrative state can be used to promote justice and eliminate disparities among historically marginalized and vulnerable populations.

Professor Whelan is the author of numerous law review articles. Her work is published or forthcoming with the Vanderbilt Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Cornell Law Review Online, Iowa Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, Washington & Lee Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Illinois Law Review, Oklahoma Law Review, UC Irvine Law Review, and the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, among others. She is the co-author and co-editor of numerous book chapters and books, and she has published op-eds and commentary, including for the Harvard Bill of Health, Harvard Social Impact Review, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Ms. Magazine.