Professor Robin Pierce
Juris Doctor (JD) , University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall School of Law) and PhD, Harvard University
Professor
Research
Robin L. Pierce is Professor of AI and the Law at the University of Exeter. Her current research focuses on legal, policy, and ethical issues in the translation of AI-driven technologies in health, medicine, and the life sciences. This builds on a longstanding research line that brings together law, policy, and ethics to explore governance strategies for emerging technologies, e.g., AI, genetics, synthetic biology, AI, and neuroscience.
Professor Pierce’s current research follows three main tracks examining regulatory approaches to addressing processes and impacts of technological innovation including -
- regulatory and policy approaches to translation of AI-driven and digital technologies for health and medicine and the life sciences
- regulatory and governance approaches to addressing health inequities
- policy and ethics and the governance of AI
- data governance
At Exeter, she is involved in several transdisciplinary collaborations and is a member of EGENIS, Microbes and Society, and is an affiliate member of the Wellcome Centre – Cultures and Environments for Health.
Research group links
- Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences
- Human Rights and Democracy Forum
- Science, Culture and the Law at Exeter (SCuLE)
Publications
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| 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2018 | 2017 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
2024
- Purtova N, Pierce RL. (2024) Citizen scientists as data controllers: Data protection and ethics challenges of distributed science, Computer Law & Security Review, volume 52, pages 105911-105911, article no. 105911, DOI:10.1016/j.clsr.2023.105911. [PDF]
2023
- Gallifant J, Celi LA, Pierce RL. (2023) Digital determinants of health: opportunities and risks amidst health inequities, NATURE REVIEWS NEPHROLOGY, volume 19, no. 12, pages 749-750, DOI:10.1038/s41581-023-00763-4. [PDF]
2022
- Pierce R, Fosch-Villaronga E. (2022) Medical Robotics and the Right to Healthcare: A Progressive Realization, Cambridge Handbook of Information Technology, Life Science, and Human Rights, Cambridge University Press, 70-85.
- Pierce RL, Van Biesen W, Van Cauwenberge D, Decruyenaere J, Sterckx S. (2022) Explainability in medicine in an era of AI-based clinical decision support systems, FRONTIERS IN GENETICS, volume 13, article no. ARTN 903600, DOI:10.3389/fgene.2022.903600. [PDF]
- Pierce RL. (2022) Interrupting pathways to health inequities in citizen science health research, HEALTH PROMOTION INTERNATIONAL, volume 37, no. SUPPL 2, pages 21-34, DOI:10.1093/heapro/daac032. [PDF]
- Pierce R, Sterckx S, Van Biesen W. (2022) A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma: How semantic black boxes and opaque artificial intelligence confuse medical decision-making, Bioethics, volume 36, no. 2, pages 113-120, DOI:10.1111/bioe.12924. [PDF]
2021
- Pierce R. (2021) Fortified nudges? Protecting the vulnerable in a post-COVID Society, The New Common How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Transforming Society, Springer Nature, 169-174, DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-65355-2_24.
- Friesen P, Douglas-Jones R, Marks M, Pierce R, Fletcher K, Mishra A, Lorimer J, Véliz C, Hallowell N, Graham M. (2021) Governing AI-Driven Health Research: Are IRBs Up to the Task?, Ethics Hum Res, volume 43, no. 2, pages 35-42, DOI:10.1002/eahr.500085. [PDF]
2018
- Pierce R. (2018) Medical Privacy: Where Deontology and Consequentialism Meet, Handbook of Privacy Studies, Amsterdam University Press.
- Beckwith J, Pierce R. (2018) Genes and Human Behavior, Molecular-Genetic and Statistical Techniques for Behavioral and Neural Research.
- Berti Suman A, Pierce R. (2018) Challenges for Citizen Science and the EU Open Science Agenda under the GDPR, European Data Protection Law Review, volume 4, no. 3, pages 284-295, DOI:10.21552/edpl/2018/3/7. [PDF]
2017
- Beckwith J, Bergman K, Carson M, Doerr T, Geller L, Pierce R, Krimsky S, Martin C, Santiago M, Murray AV. (2017) Using Dialogues to Explore Genetics, Ancestry, and Race, AMERICAN BIOLOGY TEACHER, volume 79, no. 7, pages 525-537, DOI:10.1525/abt.2017.79.7.525. [PDF]
2013
- Pierce RL. (2013) Bridging current issues in science and society, BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL, volume 8, no. 8, pages 875-877, DOI:10.1002/biot.201200264. [PDF]
2012
- Pierce RL. (2012) A Place for Ethics? A Place for Advocacy?, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS, volume 12, no. 8, pages 17-18, DOI:10.1080/15265161.2012.692446. [PDF]
- Pierce RL. (2012) Whose ethics of knowledge? Taking the next step in evaluating knowledge in synthetic biology: a response to Douglas and Savulescu, JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS, volume 38, no. 10, pages 636-638, DOI:10.1136/medethics-2012-100563. [PDF]
2011
- Pierce R. (2011) The Expressive Function of Public Health Policy: The Case of Pandemic Planning, PUBLIC HEALTH ETHICS, volume 4, no. 1, pages 53-62, DOI:10.1093/phe/phr001. [PDF]
2010
- Pierce R. (2010) A changing landscape for advance directives in dementia research, Soc Sci Med, volume 70, no. 4, pages 623-630, DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.10.037. [PDF]
- Pierce R. (2010) Complex calculations: ethical issues in involving at-risk healthy individuals in dementia research, J Med Ethics, volume 36, no. 9, pages 553-557, DOI:10.1136/jme.2010.036335. [PDF]
2009
- Pierce KR. (2009) Comparative Architecture of Genetic Privacy, Indiana International & Comparative Law Review, volume 19, no. 1, pages 89-128, DOI:10.18060/17600. [PDF]
2008
- Pierce R. (2008) What a tangled web we weave: ethical and legal implications of deception in recruitment, Account Res, volume 15, no. 4, pages 262-282, DOI:10.1080/08989620802388713. [PDF]
