Glen Cohen

Cohen was selected as a Radcliffe Institute Fellow for the 2012-2013 year and is a fellow at the Hastings Center, one of the leading bioethics think tanks in the United States.

He is a board member of the Association of American Law Schools, Law, Medicine, and Health Care Section Executive Committee and served as a board member of the Institutional Review Board for Fenway Health from 2007-2010. He became co-editor-in-chief of The Journal of Law and the Biosciences in 2013 and has served as a peer reviewer in the New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet.

In 2006, Cohen returned to Harvard as an Academic Fellow & Lecturer On Law at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. Upon completing his fellowship, in 2008, Cohen became a tenure-track professor at Harvard Law School and was tenured as a full professor in 2013. Cohen's work lies at the intersection of law and bioethics. His current projects focus on big data, health information technology, technology in medicine, telemedicine, rationing in law and medicine, FDA law, and medical tourism.

He served as a law clerk for Judge Michael Boudin of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 2003–2004 and then worked on the Appellate Staff in the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice from 2004-2006.

After graduating from Bialik High School in 1996, Cohen attended the University of Toronto where he received an Hon. B.A. in Bioethics (Philosophy) and Psychology in 2000. He served as a Primary Editor on the Harvard Law Review and published two student notes. He received his J.D., magna cum laude in 2003.

I. Glenn Cohen (born 1978 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is also the director of Harvard Law School's Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics.