 oberta M. Berry is Associate Professor
and Director, Law, Science & Technology Program. Her research focuses
on the legal, ethical, and policy implications of life sciences research
and biotechnologies.
In 2001, Prof.
Berry was named Outstanding Faculty Member by the Georgia Tech Student
Government Association. In 2004, she received the Ivan Allen Jr. Faculty Legacy Award and in 2005 she received the Class of 1940 W. Howard Ector Outstanding Teacher Award.
Prof. Berry is writing a book under contract with Routledge on the ethical and policy implications of genetic engineering of human beings.
She has published a co-edited
interdisciplinary book on health care law, ethics and policy, and a number of articles focusing
primarily on the implications of genetic knowledge and technologies. She
has also delivered a number of papers on the legal, ethical, and policy
issues posed by life sciences research and biotechnologies, and, in 2000,
she served as
Executive Director of the transatlantic workshop Shaping Biotechnology
Policy in the 21st Century: A Joint European and American Workshop on
Policy, Legal, and Ethical Issues.
Selected Publications:
Berry, Roberta M. "Can Bioethics Speak to Politics about the Prospect of Germ-Line Gene Therapy? If So, What Might it Say?" In A Dividing Line? Exploring the Ethics of Germ-Line Gene Therapy, ed. John E. J. Rasko, Gabrielle O’Sullivan, and Rachel A. Ankeny. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2005).
Berry, Roberta M. "Health Care and the Human Genome: Regulatory Challenge and Response." Annals of Bioethics: A Forum of Foundational, Clinical and Emerging Topics 3, Legal Perspectives in Bioethics (forthcoming 2005).
Benkeser, Paul J., Roberta M. Berry, and Jonathan D. Olinger. "Challenges and Opportunities in Ethics Education in Biomedical Engineering." Proceedings, 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Conference (forthcoming 2005).
Berry, Roberta M. "Informed Consent Law, Ethics, and Practice: From Infancy to Reflective Adolescence" HealthCare Ethics Committee Forum 17, no. 1 (2005): 64-81.
Berry, Roberta M. "Genetic Information
and Research: Emerging Legal Issues." HealthCare Ethics Forum 15, no. 1
(2003): 70-99.
Eisen, Arri and Berry, Roberta M.
"The Absent Professor: Why We Don't Teach Research Ethics and What to Do
About It." American Journal of Bioethics 2 (2002): 38-49.
Honorable Mention: 2005 Johnson Award for Best Paper in Ethics and Accountability in the Public Sector.
Robinson, John H. and Berry, Roberta
M. "Unraveling the Codes: The Dialectic Between Knowledge of the
Moral Person and Knowledge of the Genetic Person in Criminal Law"
in Mutating Concepts, Evolving Disciplines: Genetics, Medicine, and Society,
ed. Lisa S. Parker and Rachel A. Ankeny. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Philosophy and Medicine Series 2002, pp. 287-317.
Berry, Roberta M. "Eugenics after
the Holocaust: The Limits of Reproductive Rights" in Humanity at
the Limit: The Impact of the Holocaust Experience on Jews and Christians,
ed. Michael A. Signer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2000,
pp. 224-40.
Robinson, John H., Berry, Roberta M.,
and McDonnell, Kevin (eds). A Health Law Reader: An Interdisciplinary
Approach. Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, 1999.
Berry, Roberta M. 1999. "Genetic
Enhancement in the Twenty-First Century: Three Problems in Legal Imagining,"
34 Wake Forest Law Review 715.
Berry, Roberta M. 1998. "From Involuntary Sterilization to Genetic Enhancement: The Unsettled Legacy of Buck v. Bell," 12 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 401.
Berry, Roberta M. 1997. "The Genetic Revolution and the Physician's Duty of Confidentiality: The Role of the Old Hippocratic Virtues in the Regulation of the New Genetic Intimacy," 18 Journal of Legal Medicine 401.
Berry, Roberta M. 1996. "The Human Genome Project and the End of Insurance," 7 University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy 205. Reprinted in: 8 National Insurance Law Review 641 (1997), National Insurance Law Service.
Selected Presentations:
"Germ-line Genetic Engineering and Constitutional Values." Annual Meeting, American Association for the Advancement of Science, (February 18, 2005) Washington D.C.
"Medical Hope and Utopian Temptation: Looking Backward for Normative Guidance on Germ-Line Genetic Engineering." Annual Meeting, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, (October 31, 2004) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
"Can Criteria Drawn from the Philosophy of Biology Help Resolve Disagreement in Bioethics?" Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, (August 2003) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
"Is Bioethics Marooned on an Island? Genetic Engineering as a Case Study of the Struggle to Connect Bioethics with Public Policy," Annual Meeting, Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, (October 2001) Charleston, South Carolina (Gordon Kingsley, co-author)
"Genetic Enhancement: Imagining the Future," Symposium: Genetic Technology: Social Values and Personal Autonomy in the 21st Century, Co-sponsors: Wake Forest University Law School, Medical School, and Year of Science Program, (November 1999) Winston-Salemn, North Carolina
"Comment on the Prospect of Eugenics," Conference: Humanity at the Limit: The Impact of the Holocaust Experience on Jews and Christians, Co-Sponsors: Holocaust Museum and the University of Notre Dame, (May 1998) Notre Dame, Indiana
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