John Keown is the Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. He graduated in law from Cambridge and earned a doctorate from Oxford, where he was later awarded a Doctor of Civil Law. He has taught medical and criminal law at the University of Leicester and held significant academic positions at Cambridge, including a Fellowship at Queens’ College. Dr. Keown specializes in the law and ethics of medicine, particularly issues at the beginning and end of life. His influential book Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy: An Argument Against Legalisation was revised and republished in 2018. His research has been cited by major legal bodies, including the U.S. Supreme Court and the House of Lords, and he has testified as an expert witness in significant cases on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.