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Julie A. Burger, J.D.
Director of Research & Projects, Institute for Science, Law & Technology
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Julie A. Burger, J.D., is the Director of Research & Projects at the Institute for Science, Law and Technology. Her current areas of interest include the social, legal and ethical implications of emerging technologies including nanotechnology, assisted reproduction, genetics and cloning. With funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, she is analyzing the impact of the intellectual property system on technologies, scientific research, and healthcare, and is examining whether current patent policies conflict with constitutional rights. She has also worked in the area of the ethics and legal rights of human research subjects.
Ms. Burger has given presentations to lawyers, the judiciary and the scientific community. She has also been interviewed for radio programs and newspaper articles.
Ms. Burger is professor for the course "Reproductive Technology and the Law" at Chicago-Kent. In conjunction with the Chicago-Kent Law Offices, she also represents children with diabetes who are being discriminated against by schools, camps, and after-school programs.
While a student at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Ms. Burger interned in the health law division of the Chicago-Kent Law Offices and devoted much of her time to cases assisting people with diabetes. After graduating with high honors, she practiced law at Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP, where her cases primarily involved the privacy rights of patients, Illinois not-for-profit law, and insurance discrimination. Ms. Burger also clerked for the Honorable Martin C. Ashman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and most recently, practiced law at the Chicago firm of Gardner Carton & Douglas, LLP (now known as Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP). Prior to becoming the Director of Research and Projects at ISLAT, Ms. Burger completed a legal fellowship at the Insitute. She earned her B.A. from Illinois Wesleyan University.
Selected Publications
“Stem Cells without Embryos: Solving Dilemmas for Human Rights?” 34 ABA Human Rights 14 (Fall 2007). (pdf)
“Thinking Small,” The Journal of Life Sciences 48-53 (February/March 2008) (with Lori Andrews).
"A Court’s Dilemma: When Patents Conflict with Public Health," 12 Virginia Journal of Law & Technology 7, 1-41 (Fall 2007) (with Justin Brunner). (pdf)
“Nanotechnology and the Intellectual Property Landscape,” in Nanoscale: Issues and Perspectives for the Nano Century (Nigel Cameron and M. Ellen Mitchell, eds.) (Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2007) (with Lori Andrews and Marianne Timm).
Julie A. Burger
Institute for Science, Law & Technology
Chicago-Kent College of Law
565 West Adams Street
Chicago, IL 60661-3691
(312) 906-5393 (phone)
(312) 906-5388 (fax)
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