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
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2014–presentJames 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
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2023–2023Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science
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2018–2018TILEC Fellow, Tilburg University
Education
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1991Harvard Law School, JD
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1988Rice University, BSEE, BA
Publications
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2022Intellectual Property Licensing and Transactions: Theory and Practice, NY: Cambridge University Press
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2021The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA, NY: Hachette/Algonquin
Professional Memberships
- American Law Institute
- Salt Lake City, USA
- Website
- @contreraslegals
- Article Feed
- ORCID
- Joined
