Paul Locke, an environmental health scientist and attorney, is a Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is the Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Animal Science and Law at the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
Dr. Locke holds an MPH from Yale University School of Medicine, a DrPH from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and a JD degree from Vanderbilt University School of Law. He is admitted to practice law in the state of New York and the District of Columbia, and before the bar of the United States Supreme Court. Prior to joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Locke practiced law in New York, New York and Washington, DC representing mostly Fortune 100 companies.
At Johns Hopkins, Dr. Locke’s research and practice scholarship focus on the intersection of law and science. He leads an interdisciplinary team that advocates for the use of human-centric methods in toxicity testing and improvements in the drug development process and environmental chemicals testing, capitalizing on scientific advances that create opportunities to replace animals with new, non-animal (in vitro) methods. Dr. Locke was member of the NASME’s ILAR Board of Councilors and Nuclear Radiation Studies Board, and a member of the committee that updated the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals