Associate Professor Hussey Freeland earned her undergraduate degree in biochemistry and cognitive science at Vassar College, and her PhD in the Interdepartmental Program in Biophysics at Stanford University. As she completed her dissertation, she studied the use of science in negotiation as a graduate fellow of the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation, and pursued this interest further as a Science Fellow of the Center for International Security and Cooperation in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford. She served as a visiting assistant professor of Chemistry and of Women's Studies at Oberlin College before earning her JD from Stanford Law School, where her first article in law received the Intellectual Property Writing Award.
Hussey Freeland's research examines the interfaces between law and science. She is the author of "Maieusis Through a Gated Membrane: 'Getting the Science Right' in Public Decisionmaking" (Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 2007) and "The Sine Qua Non of Copyright" (Journal of Copyright Society of the U.S.A., 2004). She has also published numerous peer-reviewed articles in prominent scientific journals, and spoken on a variety of topics involving science and law, environmental decisionmaking, feminist theory, and professional ethics.