John A. Robertson

John A. Robertson (June 15, 1943 – July 5, 2017)[1] held the Vinson and Elkins Chair at The University of Texas School of Law. He wrote and lectured widely on law and bioethical issues.[2]

For other people named John Robertson, see John Robertson (disambiguation).

Robertson was the author of two books on bioethics, The Rights of the Critically Ill, published in 1983, and Children of Choice: Freedom and the New Reproductive Technologies, published in 1994, and numerous articles on reproductive rights, genetics, organ transplantation, and human experimentation.

He served on, or had been a consultant to, many national bioethics advisory bodies, and was Chair of the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Robertson was a fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution.[3]

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  1. "John Robertson, longtime UT law professor, dies". Archived from the original on 2017-08-07. Retrieved 2017-07-09.
  2. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-10-18. Retrieved 2009-05-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. The Hastings Center Hastings Center Fellows. Accessed November 6, 2010
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