Osagie Obasogie

Osagie Obasogie, JD, PhD, is the Haas Distinguished Chair and Professor of Bioethics in the Joint Medical Program and School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, where he chairs the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society's Diversity and Health Disparities Cluster. He is the author of Blinded By Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind (Stanford University Press, 2014). His writings have spanned academic and public outlets, with journal articles in the Fordham Law Review, Stanford Technology Law Review, and Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, along with commentaries in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and New Scientist, among others. He contributes regularly to CGS’s blog Biopolitical Times and is the former director of CGS’s Project on Bioethics, Law, and Society. Obasogie received his B.A. with distinction from Yale University, his J.D. from Columbia Law School where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley where he was a fellow with the National Science Foundation.

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Publications

By Osagie K. Obasogie and Troy Duster, The Hastings Center Report | 10.12.2011

The increasing use of DNA evidence has revolutionized criminal investigations. Over the past several years, DNA forensics—once thought to be...

By Osagie K. Obasogie, Slate | 04.18.2011

On Jan. 31, the departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services released the newest version of the official Dietary...

By Osagie Obasogie, The New Scientist | 01.22.2011

A great deal of scientific research – especially in medicine – relies on human subjects. Protecting volunteers has been a...

In the News

By Osagie K. Obasogie and Helen Theung, Stanford Technology Law Review | 01.15.2013

Since Moore v. Regents of the University of California, there has been a wide-ranging debate regarding the holding of the...

By Osagie K. Obasogie, New Scientist | 12.14.2012

Have we gone beyond race? Many argue society has now overcome centuries of strife to become "post-racial" - a moment...

By Osagie K. Obasagie, The American Prospect | 11.17.2011

In 2010, Rebecca Skloot published The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a New York Times bestseller about a poor...

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