Speaker Spotlight
Harvard Law Professor I. Glenn Cohen - "Medical AI: Legal and Ethical Issues"
James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, Deputy Dean Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics
Join the Harvard Alumni Association Speakers Bureau on Tuesday, June 23, 2026 at 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET. for a virtual session from Professor Glenn Cohen.
Prof. Cohen is one of the world’s leading experts on the intersection of bioethics (sometimes also called “medical ethics”) and the law, as well as health law. He also teaches civil procedure. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. He has testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on genetic privacy, spoken to NATO on biotechnology and human enhancement, addressed the OECD and members of the US and the Korean Congress on medical AI policy, and advised then- U.S. Vice President Harris on reproductive rights. He has provided bioethical advising and consulting to some of the largest healthcare companies in the world including Bayer, Otsuka, and Illumina. He has given grand rounds and lectured to medical and industry conferences across the world. His work has been frequently covered by or appeared in media venues such as PBS, NPR, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Boston Globe.
He was the youngest professor on the faculty at Harvard Law School (tenured or untenured) both when he joined the faculty in 2008 (at age 29) and when he was tenured as a full professor in 2013 (at age 34), though not the youngest in history.
Prof. Cohen’s current projects relate to medical AI, mobile health and other health information technologies, abortion, reproduction/reproductive technology, the therapeutic use of psychedelic drugs, research ethics, organ transplantation, rationing in law and medicine, health policy, FDA law, translational medicine, medical tourism and many other topics.