Ilise Feitshans Explained

Ilise Feitshans is an American global health lawyer working in the field of nanotechnology.^[1]

Education

Feitshans attended Barnard College for her undergraduate degree. She received her JD from Georgetown University in 1983. She went on to earn her Master's of Science from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, and her doctorate in International Relations from Geneva School of Diplomacy.^[2] She holds the first Swiss doctorate in nanotechnology law.

As of November 2023, Feitshans was a Master of Law Candidate in National and Global Health at Georgetown University.

Career

Until 2008, Feitshans worked as a civil servant at the Geneva branch of the United Nations.^[3] There, she contributed to an update of the UN's Encyclopedia of Occupational Health and Safety. She also previously worked in Archamps, France, while she served as a Fellow in Law of Nanotechnology at the European Scientific Institute.

In the United States, Feitshans worked as a faculty member at Columbia University School of Law.

As of 2023, she is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court bar.

Publications

Books and chapters

• Book: Feitshans, Ilise Levy . Bringing Health to Work . 1997 . Emalyn Press . 978-0-9662216-0-2 . en.
• Book: Feitshans, Ilise L. . Global Health Impacts of Nanotechnology Law: A Tool for Stakeholder Engagement . 2018-05-24 . CRC Press . 978-1-351-13445-3 . en.
• Book: Feitshans, Ilise . Gunjan . Marcel . Jeswani . Van De Voorde . Handbook of Nanoethics . 2021-09-07. 12. Nanoethics for safe work: philosophical foundations of safer nanodesign protecting workplace health . 2024-04-11 . De Gruyter . en . 10.1515/9783110669282 . 978-3-11-066928-2.
• Book: Feitshans, Ilise . 12. Emerging nanoregulations: zapping the mythical absence of nanotechnology law . Ethics in Nanotechnology . 2021 . Van de Voorde . Marcel . Jeswani . Gunjan . 10.1515/9783110719932 . De Gruyter. 978-3-11-071993-2 .
• Book: Feitshans, Ilise L. . An Analysis of the Impacts of National Regulation on Occupational Safety and Health: How Regulations Protect Workers and Their Employers . 2021 . Improving Global Worker Health and Safety Through Collaborative Capacity Building Initiatives . 2024-04-11 . CRC Press . 10.1201/9781003026471-10 . 978-1-003-02647-1.

Selected articles

• Feitshans . Ilise Levy . Garcia . Loretta Jean . Herr . Julie Kitser . Heindle . Richard . 1984 . DBS under FCC and International Regulation . . 37 . 67.
• Feitshans . Ilise L. . 1985 . Hazardous Substances in the Workplace: How Much Does the Employee Have the Right to Know . . 1985 . 697.
• Feitshans . I L . July 1989 . Law and regulation of benzene. . . en . 82 . 299–307 . 10.1289/ehp.8982299 . 0091-6765 . 1568132 . 2792048.
• Feitshans . Ilise L. . 1989 . Confronting AIDS in the Workplace: Balancing Employment Opportunity and Occupational Health under Existing Labor Laws . Detroit College of Law Review . 1989 . 953.
• Feitshans . Ilise L. . October 1990 . Potential Liability of Industrial Hygienists Under USA Law: Part I: The Dawning of the Age of Industrial Hygienist Malpractice? . . en . 5 . 10 . 683–692 . 10.1080/1047322X.1990.10387771 . 1047-322X.
• Feitshans . Ilise L. . March 1991 . Potential Liability of Industrial Hygienists Under USA Law Part II: Prescription for Reducing Potential Liability . Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene . en . 6 . 3 . 205–214 . 10.1080/1047322X.1991.10387863 . 1047-322X.
• Feitshans . Ilise . 1994-01-01 . Forshadowing Future Changes: Implications of the AIDS Pandemic for International Law and Policy of Public Health . . 15 . 3 . 807–822 . 1052-2867.
• Feitshans . Ilise L. . November 1994 . Job Security for Pregnant Employees: The Model Employment Termination Act . The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science . en . 536 . 1 . 119–134 . 10.1177/0002716294536001010 . 0002-7162.
• Feitshans . Ilise L. . 1995 . Legislating to Preserve Women's Autonomy during Pregnancy . Medicine and Law . 14 . 397. 8868499 .
• Feitshans . Ilise L. . 1995 . Positive Incentives for Compliance: Balancing New Tools and Their Limits . Preventive Law Reporter . 14 . 10.
• Feitshans . Ilise L. . 1998–1999 . Is There a Human Right to Reproductive Health . . 8 . 93.
• Feitshans . Ilise L. . 2001–2002 . Spider Silk Jeans or Spider Silk Genes - The Future of Genetic Testing in the Workplace - Presentation for Yale Medical School Occupational and Environmental Health October 24, 2000 . . 18 . 13.
• Feitshans . Ilise L . 2002-10-01 . Protecting posterity: the occupational physician's ethical and legal obligations to pregnant workers . Occupational Medicine (Philadelphia, Pa.) . 17 . 4 . 673–685 . 0885-114X . 12225936.
• Feitshans . Ilise L. . 2012-03-12 . Forecasting Nano Law: Defining Nano . . en . 8 . 1 . 17–34 . 10.4024/N15FE11A.ntp.08.01 . 1660-6795.
• Lynch . Iseult . Feitshans . Ilise L. . Kendall . Michaela . 2015-02-05 . 'Bio-nano interactions: new tools, insights and impacts': summary of the Royal Society discussion meeting . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . en . 370 . 1661 . 20140162 . 10.1098/rstb.2014.0162 . 0962-8436 . 4275916 . 25533104.
• Feitshans, Ilise L. (2022-12-11). "Global Health Technologies Transforming Intellectual Property Law and World Trade". Precision Nanomedicine. 5 (4): 977–993. doi:10.33218/001c.57587.
• Feitshans . Ilise . 2023 . Freedom from choice: the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson . . 10.17566/ciads.v12i1.998 . 2358-1824. free .
• Feitshans . Ilise . 2024-03-27 . Deconstructing women's double burden that returned to work during the COVID-19 pandemic . Cadernos Ibero-Americanos de Direito Sanitário . 12 . 4 . 175–179 . 10.17566/ciads.v12i4.1219 . 2358-1824. free .

Recognition

The American Society of Safety Engineers listed her among its “100 Women Making a Difference in Safety, Health and Environment Professions” in 2011.^[4] Ms. JD, a development and networking for women lawyers and law students, gave her its 2016 Superwomen award. Her PhD thesis in international relations was awarded the Lausanne Prix de la Fondation de médecine sociale et preventive prize for the best research in social medicine and prevention at the University of Lausanne in 2014.^[5]

Personal life

Feitshans splits her time between Haddonfield, New Jersey and France, where her husband, Dominique, works. She has two children.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ilise Feitshans . 2024-04-11 . O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center . en-US.
2. Web site: Solway . Ezra . 2023-03-08 . Nanotechnology expert studies the future of kosher food . 2024-04-11 . Jewish Community Voice.
3. Web site: Tomczuk . Jack . 2018-08-18 . Haddonfield resident explores complex world of nanotechnology . 2024-04-11 . The Sun Newspapers . en-US.
4. Book: Fuller, Thomas P. . Improving Global Worker Health and Safety Through Collaborative Capacity BuildingbInitiatives . 2021 . CRC Press . 978-1-000-40837-9 . xv . en.
5. Book: Nanotechnology Environmental Health and Safety: Risks, Regulation, and Management . 2018 . Elsevier Science . 978-0-12-813589-1 . Bowman . Diana . xxv . en . Hull . Matthew.