Jennifer Merchant obtained her PhD in political sciences from Sciences po Paris, and now teaches at the Université de Paris II. Her research privileges a pluridisciplinary approach at the crossroads of political science, law, gender studies and bioethics in Anglo-American and European countries. She is currently working on two projects:  1° analyzing from a comparative perspective (France/United States) policies relative to gender and health care and research, and 2° comparative public policy analyses of the framing of human genome editing (HGE) and their impact on the future of human reproduction. She is a member of the Inserm Ethics Committee and of the Institut universitaire de France, and was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Committee on Human Genome Editing. Among her publications; Procréation et politique aux Etats-Unis, 1965-2005 (Paris, Belin 2006), “Assisted Reproductive Technology in the United States: Towards a National Regulatory Framework”, IJB 2009 (https://www.cairn.info/revue-journal-international-de-bioethique-2009-4-page-55.htm), Access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies: The Case of France and Belgium (dir.), Berghahn Books, December 2019 (https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/MerchantAccess) and De l’initimté publique au droit à l’intimité/right to privacy: Droit constititionnel des femmes américaines, forthcoming 2024.