Keynote Speakers

Paul A. Lombardo
Paul A. Lombardo is a lawyer and historian best known for his scholarship on the American eugenics movement. His books include Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court and Buck v. Bell (2008), and A Century of Eugenics in America: From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era (2010). He has been instrumental in the movement to solicit apologies and legislative denunciations of past state eugenic laws, successful so far in seven states.

Lombardo serves as a Senior Advisor to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues and holds the Bobby Lee Cook Chair as Professor of Law at Georgia State University in Atlanta. From 1990 to 2006 he was a faculty member in the Schools of Law and Medicine at the University of Virginia, where he received both his Ph.D. and J.D. degrees.

http://law.gsu.edu/profile/paul-lombardo

For selected readings by Dr. Lombardo related to the conference, please visit the Eugenics to Newgenics Website.

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Dorothy E. Roberts
Dorothy Roberts is an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law. Her path breaking work in law and public policy focuses on urgent contemporary issues in health, social justice, and bioethics, especially as they impact the lives of women, children and African-Americans. Her major books include Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (New Press, 2011);Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books, 2002), and Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty(Pantheon, 1997).

https://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/roberts1

For selected readings by Dr. Roberts related to the conference, please visit the Eugenics to Newgenics Website.