Elliot Dorff is Sol and Anne Dorff Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy, Co-Chair of the Bioethics Department, and Rector at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, CA. For 30 years he has also been a Visiting Professor at UCLA School of Law. He was awarded the Journal of Law and Religion’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and he holds three honorary doctoral degrees. In Los Angeles, he is Immediate Past President of Jewish Family Service and a member of the Ethics committees at the Jewish Homes for the Aging and UCLA Medical Center.

Rabbi Dorff is Vice-Chair of the Conservative Movement's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards. His papers have formulated the validated stance of the Conservative Movement on infertility treatments and on end-of-life issues, and his Rabbinic Letters on human sexuality and on poverty have become the voice of the Conservative Movement on those topics.  He has chaired the Academy of Jewish Philosophy and the Jewish Law Association and is currently Chair of the Society of Jewish Ethics. 

 In 1993, Rabbi Dorff served on the Ethics Committee of Hillary Rodham Clinton's Health Care Task Force.  In 1997 and 1999, he testified on behalf of the Jewish tradition on the subjects of human cloning and stem cell research before the President's National Bioethics Advisory Commission. In 1999 and 2000 he was part of the Surgeon General’s commission to draft a Call to Action for Responsible Sexual Behavior; and from 2000 to 2002 he served on the National Human Resources Protections Advisory Commission, charged with reviewing and revising the federal guidelines for protecting human subjects in research projects.  He is currently working on a project on Judaism and genetics for the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is a member of that organization’s Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion Advisory Committee.

His publications include more than 150 articles on Jewish thought, law, and ethics, together with 12 books, including Matters of Life and Death: A Jewish Approach to Modern Medical Ethics. He is a very active member of the Forum's Board of Directors, participating in numerous Forum events and contributing to volumes edited by Forum members.  He is also an interviewee for the Forum’s documentary on “Global Voices for Human Rights.”