Faculty

Assistant Professor Leslie Meltzer Henry joined the law school community in 2008 and is an associate faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.  She teaches Constitutional Law II: Individual Rights; Advanced Bioethics and the Law; Bioethics Seminar; Public Health and the Law; and Reproductive Justice and the Law.

Her scholarly interests include constitutional theory and interpretation, health policy and social justice, bioethics, reproductive justice, and research ethics. Her publications include “Commerce Games and the Individual Mandate,” 100 Georgetown L. J. (forthcoming 2012) (with Maxwell Stearns); “The Jurisprudence of Dignity,” 160 U. Penn. L. Rev. 169 (2011); “Visionary Pragmatism and the Value of Privacy in the Twenty-First Century,” 108 Mich. L. Rev. 1107 (2010) (with Danielle Keats Citron); “Deciphering Dignity,” 10 Am. J. Bioethics 59 (2010); “Human Dignity and Bioethics,” 359 New Eng. J. Med. 660 (2008); “Undesirable Implications of Disclosing Individual Genetic Results to Research Participants,” 6 Am. J. Bioethics 28 (2006); and “What is Fair Participant Selection?,” in Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics 377 (Ezekial J. Emanuel et al. eds., 2008) (with James Childress).

Prior to joining the law school faculty, Professor Henry completed a post-doctoral fellowship in bioethics and health policy at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Georgetown Law Center, clerked for the Honorable Judith Rogers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, was a fellow in the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Human Subjects Research, and was founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics.

Professor Henry has served as a bioethics consultant to the Department of Defense and is an Associate of CETMONS: Consortium for Emerging Technologies, Military Operations, and National Security