Rate Professor Dorothy Roberts

Academic Profile

Academic Background: JD from Harvard Law School (1980).

Research Interests: Race, gender, bioethics, and social justice in law.

Appointments: George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology, with joint appointments in Africana Studies and Sociology. Founding Director of the Penn Program on Race, Science & Society.

Awards: Named a Woman Inspiring Change by Harvard Law (2016).

Publications:

• Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (The New Press, 2011)
• Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books, 2002)