Elizabeth Price Foley
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Elizabeth Price Foley (born 1965, Atlanta, Georgia, - ) is an American legal theorist who writes and comments in the fields of constitutional law, bioethics, and health care law. She is currently a Professor of Law at Florida International University College of Law, a public law school located in Miami, Florida.
Foley received her bachelors from Emory University in 1987, her law degree from University of Tennessee College of Law in 1994, graduating summa cum laude, and her LL.M. from Harvard in 1996.[1] She was a legislative aide to two U.S. Congressmen, Ron Wyden of Oregon and Michael Andrews of Texas.[citation needed] Foley was a professor at Michigan State University College of Law and an adjunct professor at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. She joined the FIU College of Law as one of its "founding faculty" in 2002.
Her work on the constitutional implications of human cloning have received worldwide attention[citation needed], most notably an article, "The Constitutional Implications of Human Cloning," which appeared in the Arizona Law Review, and "Human Cloning and the Right to Reproduce," which appeared in the Albany Law Review. In 2005 she served on the Committee on Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research of the National Academy of Sciences.[2] In her first book, Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality[3] Foley asserts that there is a "morality of American law," defined by the twin principles of limited government and residual individual sovereignty. These twin principles, moreover, reveal that there is a harm principle that animates American law and defines the moral use of governmental power to restrict individual liberty. In December 2006, the book won the monthly Lysander Spooner Award[4] for advancing the literature of liberty.
Foley is a frequent commentator on bioethics and health care law for American media, including CNN, Fox News, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal.[5]
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- ^ "Elizabeth Price Foley" Martindale-Hubbell Lexis/Nexis accessed 15 April 2007. Note that her entry was subsequently removed from Martindale-Hubbell at her request.
- ^ Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research (2005)
- ^ Foley, E. P. (2006) Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, ISBN 0-300-10983-0)
- ^ "Lysander Spooner Award"
- ^ "Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Appendix B, Committee Biographies" (2005) National Academy of Sciences
