Jonathan Kahn

Jonathan Kahn, JD, PhD is a Professor of Law and Biology at Northeastern University.. His current research focuses on the intersections of law and biotechnology, with particular attention to how regulatory mandates intersect with scientific, clinical and commercial practice in producing legal understandings of race and racism in American society. He is the author of Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age and Race on the Brain: What Implicit Bias Gets Wrong About the Struggle for Racial Justice His most recent book is The Uses of Diversity: How Race has Become Entangled in Law, Politics, and Biology (Columbia University Press, 2025)