Jorge L. Contreras

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  • James T. Jensen Endowed Professor for Transactional Law and Director, Program on Intellectual Property and Technology Law, University of Utah

Jorge L. Contreras is the James T. Jensen Endowed Professor for Transactional Law and Director of the Program on Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine. Professor Contreras’s research focuses on intellectual property, technical standards, antitrust law and science policy. He is the editor or author of twelve books and more than 150 scholarly articles and chapters. During his career he has served on advisory committees of the US National Institutes of Health, the National Academies of Science, and as Co-Chair of the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists. Professor Contreras’s award-winning book, The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA (NY: Hachette/Algonquin, 2021), which has received praise from media outlets from the New York Times and Wall St. Journal to Nature and Law360, describes the landmark civil rights litigation that ended gene patenting in America. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School (JD) and Rice University (BSEE, BA), and an elected member of the American Law Institute.

Experience

  • 2014–present
    James T. Jensen Endowed Professor for Transactional Law and Director, Program on Intellectual Property and Technology Law , University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law
  • 2023–2023
    Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • 2018–2018
    TILEC Fellow, Tilburg University

Education

  • 1991 
    Harvard Law School, JD
  • 1988 
    Rice University, BSEE, BA

Publications

  • 2022
    Intellectual Property Licensing and Transactions: Theory and Practice, NY: Cambridge University Press
  • 2021
    The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA, NY: Hachette/Algonquin

Professional Memberships

  • American Law Institute

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