Allison Whelan

Georgia State University College of Law

Allison M. Whelan is an Assistant Professor at Georgia State University College of Law and an Affiliate at Harvard Medical School’s Center for Bioethics. Her research and teaching encompass a broad set of medical, science, and social policy issues at the intersection of reproductive justice, administrative law, health and FDA law, constitutional law, and bioethics.

Before joining Georgia State, Allison was a Sharswood Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and an Associate Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to her fellowships, she practiced law at Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, DC, where she was a senior associate in the firm’s Food, Drug, and Device practice group.

Allison has published or has forthcoming articles in a number of journals, including the Georgetown Law Journal, Vanderbilt Law Review, George Washington Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, and Chicago Legal Forum, among many others. She is also the author of numerous book chapters, op-eds, and commentaries.

Allison graduated, summa cum laude and Order of the Coif, from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2014, where she served as Lead Note and Comment Editor for the Minnesota Law Review. She also holds a Master of Arts in Bioethics from the University of Minnesota.