Contreras, Jorge

Jorge Contreras is a University Distinguished Professor, the James T. Jensen Endowed Professor for Transactional Law and Director of the Program on Intellectual Property and Technology Law University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. He has previously served as a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Tilburg University and is currently a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota School of Law.  Professor Contreras’s research focuses on intellectual property law and science policy. He has published more than 150 academic articles and chapters and has written or edited 14 books including The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA (Hachette/Algonquin, 2021), which was recognized by the New York Times as one of the top nonfiction books of the season. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and the former co-chair of the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists. He has testified before committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, the Federal Trade Commission and the European Commission, and has served as an expert witness in complex intellectual property cases around the world. He received his JD from Harvard Law School, earned his BSEE and BA in English at Rice University and clerked for Chief Justice Thomas R. Philips of the Texas Supreme Court.