Visiting Professor of Law
B.A., J.D., University of California, Berkeley; LL.M., J.S.D., Columbia

Office Location: Hotung 5017

Assistant: Tommy Openchowski

Phone: 202-662-9687

Biography

Professor Allyn Taylor teaches global health law and international organizations and global health law. She is a faculty member of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. In addition to her appointment as a Visiting Professor of Law,  Professor Taylor is an adjunct professor international relations at the Johns Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced International Relations. Prior to joining Georgetown, she held a joint faculty appointment at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the University of Maryland School of Law where she taught Foundations of Public Health, Human Rights, Health and Human Rights, and Global Health Law. From 1997-2003 Professor Taylor was a senior health policy and legal adviser at the World Health Organization in Geneva and was the senior legal adviser for negotiation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. She has been legal consultant to numerous intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations and states, including The World Bank, the World Health Organization, the Organization of American States, the Pan American Health Organization, the Overseas Development Council, the Framework Convention Alliance, Academy Health and the National Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids.  Dr. Taylor holds a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law and a masters and a doctorate in international law from Columbia University School of Law where she was a Ford Foundation Fellow in public international law. She has written extensively on global health law and policy concerns, including global tobacco control, global access to pain medication, women’s health, biotechnology, health and human rights, international health security, and communicable disease control. From 2000 to 2004 she was the Chair of the International Health Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law.