Jonathan Marks, BCL

Jonathan Marks (he/him) Greenwall Fellow 2006

Jonathan is director of the Bioethics Program at Penn State University. He is also affiliate faculty with Penn State Law and School of International Affairs. In 2009-2010, Professor Marks was the Edmond J. Safra Faculty Fellow in Ethics at Harvard University—where he remained affiliated with the ethics center throughout its six-year initiative on Institutional Corruption (2009-2015).

Marks is also a barrister and academic member of Matrix Chambers, London. While in full-time legal practice, Marks was counsel for Human Rights Watch in the Pinochet case. He also represented a Canadian physician in a leading case on pharmaceutical regulation in the European Court of Justice; and he argued a case on privacy and data protection that changed electoral practice in England and Wales.

An expert working at the intersections of human rights law, bioethics, and public health policy, Professor Marks has written for journals of law, medicine, bioethics, and public health. He has also written for broader audiences in venues such as The Times (London), the New York Times, LA Times, and the Harvard ethics blog.

Professor Marks has participated in nationally broadcast panels and radio shows on law and medical ethics at Guantanamo Bay and other detention centers. In recent years, he has participated as an expert in several policy meetings on public-private partnerships—including workshops held under the auspices of the National Academies in Washington, DC, and the World Health Organization in Geneva.