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, Los Angeles Times | 04.09.2010

President Obama may have given credence to a relatively new but questionable law enforcement practice that the rest of the...

By Osagie K. Obasogie, Science Progress | 04.07.2010

Since the times of Galileo and as recently as climate change researchers’ battles with the Bush administration, scientists have defended...

By Osagie K. Obasogie, Bioethics Forum | 10.22.2009

Last month marked the tenth anniversary of Jesse Gelsinger's death. While perhaps not quite a household name, Gelsinger is vividly...

In the News

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...

Biopolitical Times