Academic Fellow Jeffrey Skopek to Join Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge
We are pleased to announce that Petrie-Flom Academic Fellow Jeffrey Skopek will be joining the law faculty of the University of Cambridge in the fall. At Cambridge, Jeff will continue his scholarship on advances in the biosciences that destabilize fundamental concepts of law and ethics, play a leadership role in building a new center in Medical Law, Ethics, and Policy, and teach and supervise research in this area. His immediate research agenda consists of projects on personalized medicine, biobanking, and big data. These projects will build on the work he has done at the Petrie-Flom Center, where he has written extensively on anonymity, differentiating it from privacy in articles that reveal its importance both as a tool in the production of wide range of public goods and as a right that can be invoked against new technologies of surveillance and identification. Jeff is also excited to develop new interdisciplinary collaborations on law and the biosciences, including with old friends in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, where he received a M.Phil. and Ph.D. prior to coming to Harvard to study law.
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