Can a Corporation Own the DNA that Exists Inside Every Person on the Planet? - Jorge Contreras

Jorge L. Contreras received his law degree from Harvard and teaches intellectual property, science policy, antitrust law and genetics law at the University of Utah. His scholarship has appeared in Science, Nature, NYU Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, and other leading journals. He has been featured on NPR, PRI and BBC radio, and his opinions have been cited by news outlets including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Economist, and Washington Post. In his riveting new book, THE GENOME DEFENSE: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA (Algonquin Books: October 26, 2021), Jorge L. Contreras, one of the nation's foremost authorities on human genetics law, takes a deep dive into the case, recreating the gripping courtroom drama that unfolded and illuminating the many legal, ethical, and moral layers of the controversy, from the labs and boardrooms of biotech corporations to the protests against government regulation to the lives of the ordinary citizens at risk for cancer who stood the most to lose—or gain—from the outcome. www.genomedefense.org Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.