Alan Rubel received his Ph.D. from the Department of
Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his J.D., magna cum
laude, from the University of Wisconsin Law School. Before graduate school he
worked as a biological technician and ranger for the National Park Service. Most
recently, he has served as a law clerk to Justice Ann Walsh Bradley of the
Wisconsin Supreme Court. His publications include articles on nanotechnology
and surveillance, labeling genetically engineered foods, the medical privacy of
presidential candidates, the USA Patriot Act, and persons' claims to privacy.
His current research focuses on public health surveillance, including the
relation between public health and criminal surveillance, and persons' claims
to privacy in health information with respect to public health officials.
JHU Affiliations:
Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy, Johns
Hopkins Berman Institute for Bioethics and Georgetown University
Law Center
Education:
Ph.D.
University of
Wisconsin,
Madison
J.D.
University of
WisconsinLawSchool
M.A.
University of
Tennessee
B.A.
College of
William and Mary
Select Publications
Alan Rubel, "Privacy,"
Encyclopedia
of Nanoscience and Society, (David Guston, ed., Sage Press) (forthcoming
2010)
Review of Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer,
and James Colgrove,
Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State, and Disease
Surveillance in America
(University of California Press,
2007),
Review of Policy Research 26(5): 633-634 (2009)
Alan Rubel, "Claims to Privacy and the Distributed Value
View,"
San Diego Law Review 44(4) 921-956 (2007)
Alan Rubel, "Some Questions for the Barrier Theory: Comments
on 'The Right to Privacy Unveiled,'"
San
Diego Law Review 44(4) 801-808 (2007)
Robert Streiffer
and Alan Rubel, "Do Genetically Engineered Animals Raise New Issues for the GE
Food Labeling Debate?,"
Labeling Genetically Modified Foods (Paul Weirich, ed., Environmental
Ethics and Science Policy Series, Oxford University Press): 63-87 (2007) (book)
Alan Rubel, "Privacy
and the USA Patriot Act: Rights, the Value of Rights, and Autonomy,"
Law and Philosophy 26(2) 119-159 (2007)
(draft)
Robert Streiffer,
Alan Rubel, and Julie Fagan, "Medical Privacy and the Public's Right to Vote:
What Presidential Candidates Should Disclose,"
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 31(4): 417-439 (2006)(draft)
Alan Rubel and
Robert Streiffer, "Respecting the Autonomy of European and American Consumers:
Defending Positive Labels on GM Foods,"
Journal
of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 18(1): 75-84 (2005)(article)
Robert Streiffer
and Alan Rubel, "Democratic Principles and Mandatory Labeling of Genetically
Engineered Foods,"
Public Affairs
Quarterly 18(3): 223-248 (2004)(article)
Robert Streiffer
and Alan Rubel, "Choice Versus Autonomy in the GM Food Debate,"
AgBioForum 6(3): 141-142 (2003)(article)
