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Jorge Contreras

Presidential Scholar and Professor of Law

Director, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law IP Program

Full Profile Phone: 801/587-5471
Email: jorge.contreras@law.utah.edu
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News / Articles:


  • Professor Jorge Contreras featured in the Wall Street Journal discussing dispute over gene-editing technology

  • Professor Jorge Contreras quoted in Quartz article about scientific publishing inequality

  • Contreras Elected to American Law Institute

  • Utah Law professors present at AALS Annual Meeting

  • Book Panel: Jorge Contreras’s “The Genome Defense”

  • Professor Jorge Contreras discusses gene patents on CNN

  • Professor Jorge Contreras forthcoming book featured by The New York Times

  • Professor Contreras served as Chair of the (AALS)

  • Professor Contreras co-founded the Open COVID Pledge (OCP)

  • Professor Contreras on the BBC World Service Business Matters

  • Professor Jorge Contreras testified before the S. Senate Intellectual Property Subcommittee

  • Contreras testifies in Senate subcommittee hearing on protecting patent quality

  • Professors Brown, Contreras, and Dryer honored with teaching and research awards

  • Recent publications from Utah Law faculty members