Allison M. Whelan

Allison M. Whelan serves as Assistant Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law and Affiliate of the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics, focusing on legal-bioethics intersections in health policy and social justice.

Her academic credentials include:

• JD from University of Minnesota Law School
• Masters in Bioethics from University of Minnesota

Her research investigates public, private, legal, and ethical factors shaping medical/science policy, particularly how administrative law can advance justice for marginalized populations amid political polarization. She examines FDA regulation, reproductive rights, and constitutional frameworks through a bioethics lens.

Scholarly contributions appear in leading journals including Vanderbilt Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, and Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, alongside book chapters and public commentaries in Ms. Magazine and Philadelphia Inquirer.