Curriculum Vitae

Legal BACKGROUND

Jonathan H. Marks obtained his M.A., B.C.L. (J.D., LL.M equivalent) from Oxford University. He is a barrister and accredited mediator with experience litigating and advising on English, European, and international law. His expertise is in health law, environmental law, human rights law, and regulation (including food and drugs). He represented Human Rights Watch in the Pinochet case in what is now the UK Supreme Court. He also represented Dr Nancy Olivieri in a landmark case on drug in the European Court of Justice.

AcademIC BACKGROUND

Jonathan has taught at Oxford University (Worcester College); King's College, London; the University of New South Wales in Sydney; the University of Augsburg; the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University; and UNC Law (Chapel Hill). He has held ethics fellowships at Georgetown Law, Johns Hopkins, and Harvard Universities. He is now Professor of Bioethics, Humanities, Law and Philosophy, and Director of the Bioethics Program at the Pennsylvania State University, where is also affiliate faculty in the Schools of Public Policy and International Affairs, the Rock Ethics Institute, and the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. He was a fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard from 2009-15 (in residence, 2009-11), and a member of its “Lab on Institutional Corruption.”

Research

Jonathan’s research interests and projects include:

  • public health emergency preparedness and response;

  • the ethics, law, and policy of disaster response and crisis management;

  • the relationships between human rights and health;

  • the intersections of environment and health (including the right to a healthy environment);

  • the ethical, legal, and policy dimensions of public-private partnerships in health;

  • institutional integrity and corruption;

  • commercial regulation to protect and promote health and wellbeing;

  • human rights and professional ethics in detention and interrogation;

  • the ethical implications of behavioral economics in public policy.

TEACHING

Jonathan’s teaching addresses public health ethics, law, and policy; human rights; environmental law, ethics, and policy; food law, ethics and policy; ethical leadership and crisis/disaster preparedness and management; neuroethics and neurolaw. He recently designed a course on science, ethics, policy, and law. He teaches undergraduates, graduate, and professional students (including law and medical students). He has previously taught constitutional law, contract law, international trade, and counterterrorism law and ethics.