Dr. Arthur Grayson Distinguished Lecture Series
The Dr. Arthur Grayson Distinguished Lecture Series was established by the Southern Illinois University School of Law in 1997 through the generous support of the Garwin Family Foundation. Created in 1993 to foster educational and academic research, the Garwin Family Foundation provides funding for the Grayson lecture series, the Garwin Distinguished Professor of Law and Medicine, and the Center for Health Law and Policy to advance the School’s health law program. The Grayson lecture series honors Dr. Arthur Grayson, who was until his death in 1990, a Los Angeles surgeon, philanthropist, world traveler, collector of cultural artifacts, classical and flamenco guitarist, marathon runner, and brother-in-law of Garwin Family Foundation founder Dr. Leo Garwin. Focusing on the disciplines of law and medicine, the lecture series encourages leadership and creative involvement by the legal community to address the many challenges facing our nation’s health care system.
Hank Greely, B.A., J.D.
2011 Dr. Grayson Distinguished Lecturer
"The End of Sex"
The Future of Human Reproduction
New Technologies and Their Social and Legal Consequences
Thursday, September 15 at 5:00pm
Hank Greely is the Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law and Professor, by courtesy, of Genetics at Stanford University. He specializes in ethical, legal, and social issues arising from advances in the biosciences. He has written on issues arising from genetics, neuroscience, and human stem cell research, among other topics. He chairs the California Advisory Committee on Human Stem Cell Research and the steering committee of the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics, and directs the Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences. From 2007 to 2010 he was a co-director of the Law and Neuroscience Project. In 2006, he was elected a fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science.
Professor Greely graduated from Stanford in 1974 and from Yale Law School in 1977. He served as a law clerk for Judge John Minor Wisdom on the United States Court of Appeals and for Justice Potter Stewart of the United States Supreme Court. After working during the Carter Administration in the Departments of Defense and Energy, he entered private practice in Los Angeles in 1981 as a litigator with the law firm of Tuttle & Taylor, Inc. He began teaching at Stanford in 1985. Professor Greely is married to Laura Butcher, a physician specializing in pulmonary medicine; they have two children, John, born in 1988, and Eleanor, born in 1991.