John Robertson

John A. Robertson held the Vinson and Elkins Chair at The University of Texas School of Law at Austin. He wrote and lectured widely on law and bioethical issues. He was the author of two books in bioethics The Rights of the Critically Ill (1983) and Children of Choice: Freedom and the New Reproductive Technologies (1994), and numerous articles on reproductive rights, genetics, organ transplantation, and human experimentation. He was a consultant to many national bioethics advisory bodies, and was the Chair of the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.