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 Keramet A. Reiter, Bioethics | 12.16.2010

We write in response to the conversation initiated in Volume 24.1 of Bioethics, which focused on the role of...

By Osagie K. Obasogie, The Huffington Post | 09.24.2010

The Democratic Party has long gained political capital and much of its identity by holding itself out as a champion...

By Osagie K. Obasogie, The Huffington Post | 06.18.2010

Ten years ago this month, we were definitively told that race is scientifically invalid, supposedly ending centuries of debate over...

In the News

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...

Biopolitical Times