Elizabeth Price Foley

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Elizabeth Price Foley is an American legal theorist who writes in the fields of constitutional law and health care law/bioethics. She is currently a Professor of Law at Florida International University College of Law, a public law school located in Miami, Florida. Prior to joining the FIU College of Law as one of its "founding faculty" in 2002, Foley was a Professor of Law at Michigan State University College of Lawand an Adjunct Professor at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. Her work on the constitutional implications of human cloning have received worldwide attention, most notably an article, "The Constitutional Implications of Human Cloning," which appeared in the Arizona Law Review, and "Human Cloning and the Right to Reproduce," which appeared in the Albany Law Review. In 2005 she was appointed to serve on the Committee on Stem Cell Guidelines of the National Academy of Sciences, which issued a set of Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research. Her first book, "Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality"was published by Yale University Press in late 2006. In it, Foley asserts that there is a "morality of American law," defined by the twin principles of limited government and residual individual sovereignty. These twin principles, moreover, reveal that there is a harm principle that animates American law and defines the "moral" (right and wrong) use of governmental power to restrict individual liberty. The book won the December 2006 Lysander Spooner Awardfor advancing the literature of liberty.