Anita L. Allen

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy

3501 Sansom Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104

United States

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Undressing Difference: The Hijab in the West

Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, Vol. 23, Pg. 208, 2008, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 08-18, Islamic Law and Law of the Muslim World Paper No. 08-27
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 29 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2009
Anita L. Allen
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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hijab, muslim women, veiling, laicrite, yarmulke, religious freedom, tolerance, religion, religious practices, clothing

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Protecting One's Own Privacy in a Big Data Economy

Harvard Law Review Forum, Vol. 130, Pg. 71, 2016, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-1
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 09 Jan 2017
Anita L. Allen
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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Privacy, Civil Liberties, Torts, Law & Technology, Law & Society, Big Data, Information Law, Cyberlaw, Consumer Protection, Advertising, Moral Philosophy, Ethics, Surveillance, Data Mining, Internet, Identity, Surveillance Capitalism, Data Protection, Search Engines, Google, Facebook

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The Virtuous Spy: Privacy as an Ethical Limit

U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 07-34, The Monist: An International Quarterly Journal of General Philosophical Inquiry, Vol. 91, No. 1, 2008
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 04 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 26 Sep 2014
Anita L. Allen
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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privacy, spying, surveillance, ethics, technology

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Dredging Up the Past: Lifelogging, Memory and Surveillance

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 75, p. 47, 2008, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 07-33
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 03 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 03 Sep 2013
Anita L. Allen
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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privacy, surveillance, lifelog, life log, sousveillance, memory

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An Ethical Duty to Protect One's Own Information Privacy?

Alabama Law Review, Vol. 64, P. 845, 2013, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 13-5
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 09 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2013
Anita L. Allen
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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privacy, security, social media, Internet, online technology, Twitter, Facebook, ethics, moral duty, ethical obligation, information protection, governmental responsibilities, business and industry duties

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Philosophy of Privacy and Digital Life

Anita L. Allen, Presidential Address, “The Philosophy of Privacy and Digital Life,” 93 Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association 21-38 (2019).
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 18 Mar 2022
Anita L. Allen
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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privacy, philosophy of privacy, digital life, ethics of privacy, EU Data Protection, Aadhaar Card, biometric privacy

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Veiled Women in the American Courtroom: Is the Niqab a Barrier to Justice?

In THE RULE OF LAW AND THE RULE OF GOD (Simeon O. Ilesanmi, Win-Chiat Lee & J. Wilson Parker eds., Palgrave Macmillan 2014), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-25
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 30 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2016
Anita L. Allen
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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Islam, Muslim, religion, women, headscarves, Law and Society, Constitutional Rights, Religious Free Exercise, Courtroom Procedure, Niqab, Hijab

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Atmospherics: Abortion Law and Philosophy

U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 07-40
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 24 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2007
Anita L. Allen
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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philosophy of law, Karl Llewellyn, legal realism, maternalism, paternalism, Gonzalez v. Carhart, Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act

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Dismantling the “Black Opticon”: Privacy, Race Equity, and Online Data-Protection Reform

Yale Law Journal Forum, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 22-16
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 08 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2022
Anita L. Allen
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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panopticon, ban-opticon, con-opticon, Black Opticon, African Americans, privacy, data protection, platform governance, Data Protection Act, FTC, Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act

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The Poetry of Genetics: On the Pitfalls of Popularizing Science

Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Vol. 24, p. 247, 2009 , U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 08-16
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 25 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2014
Anita L. Allen
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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genetics, genome, science writing, feminist philosophy, sexual reproduction, DNA, sociobiology

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Privacy Torts: Unreliable Remedies for LGBT Plaintiffs

California Law Review, Vol. 98, No. 6, p. 1711, 2010, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-36
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 04 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2021
Anita L. Allen
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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gay rights, lesbian rights, homosexuality, transgender rights, tort law, constitutional law, right to privacy, intrusion, right to publicity, false light, appropriation, William Prosser, tort law, gender, sexuality and the law, LGBT

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Natural Law, Slavery, and the Right to Privacy Tort

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 81, pp. 1187, 2012, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-48
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 26 Feb 2013
Anita L. Allen
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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Right of Privacy, Torts, Common Law, Legal History, Philosophy, Natural Law Theory, Positivism, Rhetoric, Injury to Freedom and Self-Determination, Rational and Intuitive Principles of Justice and Goodness

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Face to Face With 'It': And Other Neglected Contexts of Health Privacy

Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 151, No. 3, p. 300, September 2007, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 07-41
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 23 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2009
Anita L. Allen
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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medical privacy, journalism, right to control health data disclosures, right to choose solitude or seclusion

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Driven into Society: Philosophies of Surveillance Take to Streets of New York

Amsterdam Law Forum, Vol. 1, No. 4, 2009, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 09-37
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 20 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2009
Anita L. Allen
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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Driven, Society, Philosophies, surveillance, streets, New York, technology, privacy, developments, technological

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Bruised Soul of the Artist: A Tribute to Sheldon W. Halpern

Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 78, Pg. 261, 2017, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 19-20
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 05 Jan 2020
Anita L. Allen
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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arts, art law, artist authentication, art forgery, counterfeit art free speech, torts, intellectual property, artist rights, human rights law, human dignity, secret art

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Ideas and Ideals: Honoring Joyce Mitchell Cook

Anita L. Allen, “Ideas and Ideals: Honoring Joyce Mitchell Cook,” Think, volume 20, issue 59, Autumn 2021.
Posted: 25 Mar 2022
Anita L. Allen
University of Pennsylvania Law School

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women philosophers, black woman philosopher, Joyce Mitchell Cook

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HIPAA at 25 - A Work in Progress

Anita L. Allen, “HIPAA at 25—A Work in Progress,” New England Journal of Medicine, 2021; 384:2169-217. Reprinted, The Regulatory Review, August 16, 2021.https://www.theregreview.org/2021/08/16/allen-hipaa-at-25-remains-a-work-in-progress/
Posted: 24 Mar 2022
Anita L. Allen
University of Pennsylvania Law School

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HIPAA, health privacy, medical privacy, health law, patient rights

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Angela Davis

Anita L. Allen, “Angela Davis,” Philosopher Queens, eds. Rebecca Buxton and Lisa Whiting (London: Unbound 2020).
Posted: 10 Mar 2022
Anita L. Allen
University of Pennsylvania Law School

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Angela Davis, black philosophy, Africana Philosophy, racialism, black feminism, Black Power Movement, women philosophers, black women philosophers

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Getting Close: Philosophers Engage with Government and NGOs

Blackwell Companion to Public Philosophy
Posted: 10 Mar 2022
Anita L. Allen
University of Pennsylvania Law School

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public philosophy, applied ethics, NIH, Bioethics Commission, Planned Parenthood, Bazelon Center, Electronic Privacy Information Center.

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The Ethics of Academic Discretion

S. Cahn, ed., Academic Ethics Today: Problems, Policies, and Prospects for University Life
Posted: 10 Mar 2022
Anita L. Allen
University of Pennsylvania Law School

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administrators, university, ethics, discretion, leadership

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Privacy, Critical Definition and Racial Justice

Posted: 10 Mar 2022
Anita L. Allen
University of Pennsylvania Law School

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privacy, language, politics, African American, Gallie

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Social Contract Theory, Slavery, and the Antebellum Courts

COMPANION TO AFRICAN-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY, pp. 125-133, T. L. Lott, J. P. Pittman, eds., Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003
Posted: 27 Feb 2012
Thaddeus Mason Pope and Anita L. Allen
Mitchell Hamline School of Law and University of Pennsylvania Law School

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social contract, slavery, antebellum courts, contractarian, discrimination, Constitution, ethics

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Why Privacy Isn't Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability

Posted: 16 Feb 2004
Anita L. Allen
University of Pennsylvania Law School

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Synthesis and Satisfaction: The Impact of American Philosophy on India’s Constitutional Privacy Right

Anita L. Allen, Synthesis and Satisfaction: The Impact of American Philosophy on India's Constitutional Privacy Right, 20 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 343 (January 2019).
Posted: 08 Feb 2022
Anita L. Allen
University of Pennsylvania Law School

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