About Alix
Alix Rogers is an attorney whose path to law ran through history, philosophy and the life sciences. She combines a broad humanities background with legal training, and she has built a career that moves between scholarship and teaching.
Rogers completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania in 2007, earning a B.A. with a double major in Health & Societies and Philosophy. She then studied at Cambridge University in England, receiving an M.Phil. in History and Philosophy of Science in 2008. She returned to the United States for law school and earned her J.D. from Yale Law School in 2015.
After law school she spent time in academic and research settings rather than settling immediately into traditional private practice. In 2017 she joined Stanford Law School’s Center for Law and the Biosciences as a fellow, a position that placed her at the intersection of legal doctrine and advances in biomedical research. That fellowship involved research on the regulatory and ethical questions posed by emerging biotechnologies and their governance.
Her teaching career includes a role at the University of California, Davis, School of Law. In 2021 she served as an Acting Professor of Law at UC Davis, teaching courses and mentoring students on subjects that draw on her background in bioethics, public health and legal regulation. She has also been involved in curricular development and academic programming at the law school.
Rogers is admitted to practice in California. Her academic record — a blend of philosophy, history of science and legal training — informs how she approaches legal questions about healthcare, research and technology. Colleagues and students describe her work as intellectually rigorous and attentive to both doctrinal detail and broader social context.
Her publications and public-facing research emphasize the policy dimensions of bioscience and health law. She has engaged in interdisciplinary collaborations and presented at conferences that bring together lawyers, ethicists and scientists. Her writing explores how legal institutions grapple with scientific uncertainty and how regulatory frameworks adapt to new technologies.
She continues to teach and pursue research at UC Davis School of Law, where her work centers on law and the biosciences.
