A University Distinguished Professor of Law Emerita at Chicago-Kent and current director of Illinois Tech’s Institute for Science, Law, and Technology, Professor Lori Andrews previously taught at Princeton and at Case Western School of Law. Her pathbreaking pro bono litigation about new technologies caused the National Law Journal to list her as one of the “100 Most Influential Lawyers in America.” She received her B.A. summa cum laude from Yale College and her J.D. from Yale Law School.
Professor Andrews’s academic work is interdisciplinary in scope and focuses on the impact of emerging technologies on individuals, relationships, communities, social institutions, legal policies, social norms, and society at large. For reproductive technology, genetic technology, nanotechnology, internet technology, medical apps, and AI, she undertook original empirical research and socio-legal analyses to create policy frameworks. For her book I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy (2012), she created a Social Network Constitution. She received funding for her research from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Congress, the M.D. Anderson Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Professor Andrews served as the chair of the federal ethics advisory committee to the Human Genome Project and advised governments, regulatory bodies, and professional groups ranging from the U.S. Congress to the French legislature, from the Centers for Disease Control to the emirate of Dubai. She served as a consultant to the science ministers of twelve countries on the issues of embryo stem cells, gene patents, and DNA banking. She has also advised artists who use cutting edge life science technologies in their work. She’s the recipient of the National Health Law Teachers Award and was made an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine for her “distinguished achievement in the field of legal medicine.”
Andrews is the author of 11 nonfiction books and the author of more than 150 articles on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, privacy, biotechnology, and social networks. Andrews is also the author of three mysteries involving a fictional geneticist: Sequence (2006), The Silent Assassin (2007), and Immunity (2008, 2020). She is interviewed frequently by the press and has appeared on television shows from Oprah to Face the Nation, and Nightline to the Today Show. The American Bar Association Journal calls her “a lawyer with a literary bent who has the scientific chops to rival any CSI investigator.”
Education
J.D., Yale Law School
B.A., Yale University
Publications
Articles
Data Breaches, Self-Realization, and Non-Economic Damages: Lessons from 23andMeforthcoming, University of Louisville Law Review (2025) (with Richard Warner).
Skin in the Game: Human Tissue as Property, 50 American Journal of Law and Medicine 191 (2024).
Automating Discrimination: AI Hiring Practices and Gender Inequality, 44 Cardozo Law Review 145 (2022).
Covid, Sex Discrimination, and Medical Research, 106 Cornell Law Review Online 3 (2021). (with Bora Ndregjoni)
The Fragility of Consent, 66 Loyola New Orleans Law Review 11 (2020).
The Technology Enterprise, 9 UC Irvine Law Review (2019).
Derechos Fundamentales, Privacidad y Aplicaciones Móviles Médicas, 6 En Letra Civil y Comercial 2 (2019).
A New Privacy Paradigm in the Age of Apps, 53 Wake Forest Law Review 421 (2018).
Virtual Clinical Trials: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, 19 Journal of Health Care Law and Policy 189 (2017) (with K. Kostelecky et al.).
Privacy Policies of Android Diabetes Apps and Sharing of Health Information, 315 JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 1051 (2016) (with Sarah R. Blenner et al.).
The "Progress Clause": An Empirical Analysis Based on the Constitutional Foundation of Patent Law, 15 North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology 537 (2014) (symposium).
Who Owns Your Body: A Study in Literature and Law, 84 Chicago-Kent Law Review 3 (2009).
Patents on Human Genes: An Analysis of Scope and Claims, 307 Science 1566 (2005) (with Jordan Paradise & Timothy Holbrook).
Gene Patents: The Need for Bioethics Scrutiny and Legal Change, 5 Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics 403 (2005) (with Jordan Paradise).
Book Chapters
Social Networks: Impact on Biotechnology Research, Health Care, and Human Rights, in Biennial Review of Law, Science and Technology: Biotechnology, Health Inequality, and Distributive Justice (Institutum Jurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica 2018).
Privacy and Data Collection in the Gameful World, in The Gameful World (S. Walz & S. Deterding eds., MIT Press 2014).
Privacy and Technology: A 125-Year Review, in Then & Now: Stories of Law and Progress (Lori Andrews & Sarah Harding eds., Chicago-Kent College of Law 2013).
Sculpter la politique publique par le bioart [Sculpting Public Policy Through Bioart], in Bioart, Transformation du Vivant (E. Daubner & L. Poissant eds., Presses de l'Université du Québec 2012) (with J. Bauman Horne).
A Pound of Flesh: Patient Legal Action for Human Research Protections in the Biotech Age, in Patients as Policy Actors (B. Hoffman et al. eds., Rutgers University Press 2011) (with J. Burger Chronis).
Book Reviews
Coitus Defunctus, 532 Nature 35 (2016) (reviewing Henry Greely, The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction (2016)).
Press
"Use a Health or Medical App? Your Data is Rarely Private," Chicago Tribune, August 3, 2016.
"Gov. Rauner, Protect Our Digital Privacy," Chicago Tribune, August 3, 2015, 13.
"The Right to a Fair Trial in the Age of Facebook," Insights on Law & Society, Fall 2015, 14.
"Protecting Your Privacy from Windows 10," Chicago Tribune, Dec. 25, 2015, § 1, 27 (with Adam Rouse).
"Hello Barbie, Goodbye Privacy," Chicago Tribune, Nov. 27, 2015.
"This Christmas or Hanukkah, Ask Congress for Internet Privacy Laws," Chicago Tribune, Dec. 16, 2014.
"My Body, My Property," Chicago Tribune, June 16, 2013, at 19.
"Where's Waldo?: Geolocation, Mobile Apps, and Privacy," SciTech Lawyer, Summer 2013, at 6.
"War Crimes: An Allied Tribunal Brings Nazi Leaders to Account," ABA Journal, Nov. 2013, at 39.
"His Profit, Your Problem," New York Daily News, May 20, 2012.
"Privacy, Please: How Facebook Jeopardizes Your Private Life," Playboy, Jan. 2011, at 167.
"Proceed with Caution," New York Times, Sept. 13, 2011.
Projects
Digital Peepholes – Remote Activation of Webcams: Technology, Law and Policy (Institute for Science, Law and Technology 2015) (with Michael Holloway & Dan Massoglia).
American Medical Association, American Society of Human Genetics, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Amicus Curiae American Osteopathic Association, American College of Legal Medicine, and the Medical Society of the State of New York in Support of Petitioners as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners, Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics Inc., No. 12-398 (S. Ct. Jan. 29, 2013).
Books
Genetics: Ethics, Law and Policy (2015) (with M. Mehlman & M. Rothstein). (4th Edition)
I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy New York: Free Press.(2012).
Future Perfect: Confronting Decisions About Genetics Columbia University Press, 2001.
Fiction
Immunity New York: St. Martin's Minotaur (2008), Open Road Media (2020).
The Silent Assassin New York: St. Martin’s Minotaur (2007).
Sequence New York: St. Martin’s Minotaur (2006).
