Michael H. Shapiro (University of Southern California) is the Dorothy W. Nelson Professor of Law at University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Professor Shapiro earned his B.A. and M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles and earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was associate editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. He specializes in bioethics and in constitutional law, and in particular, medical and legal ethical issues surrounding research and experimentation; reproductive, genetic, and behavior control; and death and dying. He teaches Constitutional Law and Bioethics and Law. A prolific author on medical ethics and legal questions in the advent of new technologies, Professor Shapiro has written Cases, Materials, and Problems on Bioethics and Law, 2nd ed. (et. al., 2003), “Human Enhancement Uses of Biotechnology, Policy, Technological Enhancement and Human Equality” in Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues in Biotechnology (2000), and “The Identity of Identity: Moral and Legal Aspects of Technological Self-Transformation” (Journal of Social Philosophy and Policy, 2005).