Elliot N. Dorff (Ph.D, Columbia; Rabbi, Jewish Theological Seminary of America) is Rector and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at American Jewish University and a Visiting Professor at UCLA School of Law. He has been awarded four honorary doctoral degrees, and he has chaired four scholarly organizations -- the Jewish Philosophy Association, the Jewish Law Association, the Society of Jewish Ethics, and the Academy of Judaic, Christian, and Islamic Studies. He has served on federal government advisory commissions on health care, sexual ethics, and the ethics of research on human subjects, and he currently serves on the California Advisory Commission on Stem Cell Research. Author of over 200 published articles and twelve books on Jewish thought, law, and ethics, he has edited fourteen other books as well. His books on ethics include Matters of Life and Death (on medical ethics), To Do the Right and the Good (on social ethics), Love Your Neighbor and Yourself (on personal ethics), and The Way Into Tikkun Olam (Repairing the World).