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'Lori B. Andrews is a novelist and an American professor of law.  She is an internationally recognized expert on social, legal, and ethical impacts of emerging technologies, including reproductive technologies, genetics, biotechnologies, computer technologies, and artificial intelligence. The 2011 Chicago Magazine article,  "Law Prof and Novelist Lori Andrews Untangles Today’s Strangest Biotech Cases, https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/february-2011/law-prof-and-novelist-lori-andrews-untangles-todays-strangest-biotech-cases/"  described her as "one of the world’s foremost legal authorities on the most contentious technological and bioethical issues of our time." The American Bar Association Journals Newsmakers of the year 2007 and 2008 cover story, https://web.archive.org/web/20110413172447/https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/newsmakers_of_the_year_2007_and_2008/  , by Siobhan Morrisey, posted Jan. 1, 2008,

described Andrews as "a lawyer with a literary bent who has the scientific chops to rival any CSI investigator" and "a genetics expert of international renown, whose influence in the legal ethics surrounding genetics doesn't stop at the border." The Chicago Tribune Magazine said, "One of Andrews' talents is the ability to cut through the most complex, emergent technology with common sense disarmingly delivered."

Andrews is a Distinguished Professor of Law on the faculty https://kentlaw.iit.edu/law/faculty-scholarship/faculty-directory/lori-b-andrews of Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law and serves as Director of IIT's Institute for Science, Law, and Technology https://kentlaw.iit.edu/law/faculty-scholarship/centers-institutes/institute-science-law-technology. She’s been a visiting professor https://kentlaw.iit.edu/law/faculty-scholarship/faculty-directory/lori-b-andrews at Princeton University and Case Western Reserve University School of Law https://kentlaw.iit.edu/law/faculty-scholarship/faculty-directory/lori-b-andrews. She received her B.A. summa cum laude from Yale College and her J.D. from Yale Law School https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/3538/. Andrews is a Fellow of the Hastings Center https://www.thehastingscenter.org/who-we-are/our-team/hastings-center-fellows/ and an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine https://aclm.org/aclm-honorary-fellowship/.  In a 2023 Chicago Tribune op ed,  "How my Barbie dolls led me to become a lawyer,"  https://www.chicagotribune.com/2023/07/21/lori-andrews-how-my-barbie-dolls-led-me-to-become-a-lawyer/  she disclosed how her successful complaint letter to Mattel about her balding Ken doll when she was 10 years old led to a legal career in consumer advocacy.

Career[edit]

Professor Andrews undertakes in-depth, interdisciplinary research on the impact of new technologies on individuals, relationships, communities, social institutions, and the law.  Her studies can take unusual approaches.  She posed as a woman interested in getting sperm from the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank in order to address issues about regulation of sperm banks and about complexity of intellectual achievement  https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/february-2011/law-prof-and-novelist-lori-andrews-untangles-todays-strangest-biotech-cases/ .  In another project https://share.google/d2Xr34w2IRMIaq813 , she created an advisory committee that included a Nobel Laureate, several MacArthur genius award winners, a federal judge, artists and two novelists (Michael Crichton and Richard Powers) for out-of-the-box thinking about biotech policy.  

More generally, Andrews undertakes in-depth multi-year interdisciplinary studies, namely, An alternative strategy for studying adverse events in medical care, 349 Lancet 309 (1997) (with Carol Stocking, Thomas Krizek, Lawrence Gottlieb, Claudette Krizek, Thomas Vargish and Mark Siegler, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140673696082682, and  “Studying Medical Error in Situ: Implications for Malpractice Law and Policy,” 54 DePaul Law Review 357 (2005) https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/fac_schol/21/. In a study of medical errors, she headed a team that followed surgeons for a year, categorized their mistakes, assessed the hospital’s response, analyzed what caused patients to sue, and traced the lawsuits through their conclusions 15 years later  An alternative strategy for studying adverse events in medical care, 349 Lancet 309 (1997) (with Carol Stocking, Thomas Krizek, Lawrence Gottlieb, Claudette Krizek, Thomas Vargish and Mark Siegler, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140673696082682, and  “Studying Medical Error in Situ: Implications for Malpractice Law and Policy,” 54 DePaul Law Review 357 (2005) https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/fac_schol/21/ .

Her recent studies focus on issues of internet privacy and artificial intelligence.  Because federal regulations protecting health information do not protect the personal health information consumers enter into medical apps, Andrews and her colleague Sarah Blenner and their research assistants downloaded and analyzed hundreds of medical apps and used a proxy server to determine where users’ private information was being sent and whether the medical advice provided by the apps was correct. They learned that 77% of the apps disclosed private health information to third parties, including data aggregators and marketing companies. The medical app study,

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https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2499265 was published in 2016 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and was covered by over 100 media outlets around the world, including Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/health-apps-often-lack-privacy-policies-and-share-our-data-idUSL1N16G1KI/, CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/health-apps-may-pose-major-privacy-concerns/, The Times of London https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/diabetes-apps-put-private-data-at-risk-fc0k9lhgj, Politico https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2016/03/apps-routinely-share-diabetics-health-information-researchers-find-068598, El País, Live Science, Fox News and U.S. News & World Report https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/diabetes-apps-put-private-data-at-risk-fc0k9lhgj, STAT News https://www.statnews.com/2016/03/08/health-apps-sell-medical-data/, Science Daily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160308133108.htm, and Mintz https://www.mintz.com/insights-center/viewpoints/2146/2016-03-16-mobile-health-apps-continue-make-headlines.  Andrews similarly found that even with sensitive information entered into psychiatric apps (including suicidal thoughts), the information was widely shared with third parties, including marketing companies, without the consumers’ consent, in her 2018 article,  “A New Privacy Paradigm in the Age of Apps,” 53 Wake Forest Law Review 421 (2018) https://www.wakeforestlawreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/53WakeForestLRev421.pdf.

Her recent work, such as the article,  “The Technology Enterprise: Systemic Bias Against Women,” 9 UC Irvine Law Review 1035 (2019) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1b40z73v , also highlights how technology fails women. In a 2022 Cardozo Law Review article https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/clr/vol44/iss1/5/ , Andrews and co-author Hannah Bucher report on their multi-year study on AI hiring tools (resume scanning, one-way video interviews, and use of computer games).  They found that the use of AI and machine learning in hiring discriminates against women and that current employment laws fall short in protecting women.  They propose a new policy approach to regulating AI and machine learning that could serve as a basis for the regulation of other technologies as well.

In 2026, her work addressed the issues raised by romantic relationships between humans and AI (chatbots, avatars and robots), which the Chicago Tribune article,  “People are turning to AI chatbots for companionship. Is this robot love risky?” https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/16/opinion-alexa-marriage-proposals-ai-relationships/  highlights. She explored whether, as with interracial and same sex marriages, AI/human unions will ultimately be legally recognized. She also addressed the confounding notion that a person’s AI spouse is “owned” by the company that created it and she explored legal remedies for the grieving human if the company deletes the AI companion. Libbymandy (talk) 23:16, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

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Public Policy

Andrews has also been involved in setting policies for technologies. She has been an adviser to the United States Congress, the World Health Organization, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control, the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and several foreign nations. She served as chair of the federal Working Group on the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project. When Dolly the sheep was cloned, she was asked by President Clinton’s bioethics commission for a formal opinion on the advisability and legality of creating cloned human beings. Andrews began to think of this as the Bill Gates problem:  What if a wealthy individual such as Bill Gates wanted to clone himself, perhaps making Gates 2.0, 14.0, 25.0, and so forth—or if Gates’ barber cloned him from a hair follicle and sued him for child support?  Andrews’ 113-page legal opinion, CLONING HUMAN BEINGS: The Current and Future Legal Status of Cloning https://govinfo.library.unt.edu/nbac/pubs/cloning2/cc6.pdf , covered the family law, criminal law, estates law, human research law, contract law, constitutional law, human rights law, and torts law implications of human reproductive cloning. The National Bioethics Advisory Commission’s (NBAC) 1997 report, Cloning Human Beings, https://bioethicsarchive.georgetown.edu/nbac/pubs/cloning1/cloning.pdf  cited Andrews’ opinion in its recommendation for a federal ban on human reproductive cloning.

Andrews worked with legislatures to develop laws to give people the same rights to privacy, freedom of speech, and freedom of association online that they have offline. She also 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 advised artists who want to use genetic engineering to become creators with a capital "C" and invent new living species.

Pro Bono Cases

           Throughout her legal career, Andrews has been involved in David-versus-Goliath-type pro bono cases on behalf of ordinary people fighting institutions and corporations in the arena of technology, ranging from York v. Jones, 717 F. Supp. 421 (E.D. Va. 1989) https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/717/421/1584239/ , a case where an in vitro fertilization clinic would not allow a couple to transfer their embryo to their new doctor, ^[1] and Lifchez v. Hartigan, 735 F. Supp. 1361 (N.D. Ill. 1990) https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/735/1361/1459541/ a case where a state tried to ban in vitro fertilization^[2], to cases where researchers and corporations patented the genes from people’s bodies without their consent and in violation of the patent law rule that forbids patents on substances that occur in nature as opposed to actual inventions, namely, Greenberg v. Miami Childrens Hospital, 264 F. Supp. 2d 1064 (S.D. Fla. 2003), and Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., 569 U.S. 576 (2013) https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep569/usrep569576/usrep569576.pdf

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.^[3]  In her brief to the Supreme Court, https://www.ama-assn.org/sites/ama-assn.org/files/corp/media-browser/public/legal-issues/amp-v-uspto-fed_0.pdf in a case that ultimately declared the breast cancer gene was not patentable, Assoc. for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., 569 U.S. 576 (2013) https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/569/576/

she cited the findings from her decade-long research on how patents on genes do not meet legal standards and how they increase the cost of genetic tests, decrease the quality, and impede research on cures for genetic disorders.^[4]  Her path-breaking pro bono litigation on reproductive and genetic technologies caused the National Law Journal to list her as one of the "100 Most Influential Lawyers in America" https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/bclt/past-events/2012-conferences/march-2012-social-networking-and-privacy/ (in 1991).

Publications

Andrews is the author of eleven non-fiction books, three mystery novels, and more than one hundred scholarly articles, monographs, and book chapters on subjects including informed consent, internet privacy, and technology policy.^[5] In her nonfiction work The Clone Age, published in 2000, Andrews offers a highly critical account of the motives and methods of a new breed of biological scientists. She expresses concerns about the role of venture capital in medical research and what she sees as technology racing ahead of legal and ethical ground rules.

Her book co-authored with sociologist Dorothy Nelkin, Body Bazaar: The Market for Human Tissue in the Biotechnology Age (Crown Publishers) discusses the psychological, social and financial impacts of the commercialization of human tissue. Future Perfect: Confronting Decisions About Genetics (Columbia University Press) outlines the policy models that Andrews recommends for consideration as we enter an age of increasing knowledge of the human genome.

In recent years, Andrews focused on issues involving social media, apps, internet privacy and machine learning. In her book I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy (Free Press, 2012) she explained how individuals' rights are being violated by the use of their online information and she proposed a Constitution for social networks and the internet. She followed up with articles on the subject in law reviews, medical journals, consumer publications and a 2012 op ed in The New York Times, “Facebook is Using You” https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/facebook-is-using-you.html ^[6] Using a proxy server, she undertook numerous studies exploring where people’s information actually went when they entered it into apps.

Andrews is the author of three mystery novels featuring a female geneticist and military lawyer. The Silent Assassin (2007), the second novel in the Dr. Alexandra Blake series, revolves around graffiti-covered enemy skulls brought back from the Vietnam War by American soldiers. This story line was based on existing Vietnamese skulls made into ashtrays and candleholders that were brought back during the war.  On June 22, 2007, Andrews published an op-ed in The New York Times, The Bones We Carried, https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/22/opinion/22andrews.html in response to the White House visit of Vietnamese president Nguyen Minh Triet. She urged President Bush to return the "trophy skulls."^[7]

In September 2008, Andrews released the third installment of her mystery series, Immunity. The book involves a geneticist and DEA agent who work feverishly to stop an epidemic in the Southwest United States.  Because the book presciently involved a pandemic during a presidential election campaign, her publishers re-issued the book in 2020 during the COVID pandemic https://bookandfilmglobe.com/fiction/medical-mysteries-in-the-pandemic-age/  http://www.immunityanovel.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Immunity-Novel-Alexandra-Blake-Novels/dp/1504063538 .  

Media Coverage

“When octuplets are born in Houston, when a dead man fathers a baby in Los Angeles, when ‘twins’ of different races are born after a medical mix-up in Manhattan, whom are you going to call?  Lori Andrews definitely is on the short list” says USA Today http://www.socialnetworkconstitution.com/about.html .  A frequent guest on Nightline, 60 Minutes https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5095257/ , CBS Morning News, Oprah https://search.worldcat.org/title/Oprah-:-Prof.-Lori-Andrews-May-22-2003/oclc/808313554 , and various other programs https://news.wttw.com/tags/lori-andrews https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5095257/ , Andrews is often interviewed about bioethics https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/items/71481d03-fc36-419d-b55d-c04fe52e0c3e https://freshairarchive.org/segments/lori-b-andrews-discusses-clone-age https://bioethics.jhu.edu/moral-histories/explore-the-collection/lori-andrews-jd/ https://www.pbs.org/bloodlines/themes/ethics.html , privacy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZGkMyg8Y_M , https://www.c-span.org/program/the-communicators/the-communicators-with-lori-andrews/317760  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPjnIe3Hu4 https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/big-story-war-for-the-web , and emerging technologies https://www.youtube.com/user/loriandrewsauthor https://freshairarchive.org/segments/lori-b-andrews-discusses-clone-age . She’s written for The New York Times Magazine, New York, Playboy, Parade, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, and other publications, as well as for a television legal drama https://kentlaw.iit.edu/law/faculty-scholarship/faculty-directory/lori-b-andrews https://www.pbs.org/bloodlines/themes/ethics.html . A documentary, "Frozen Angels" http://www.frozenangels.org/index.html which describes her work https://variety.com/2005/film/markets-festivals/frozen-angels-1200527695/ , premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival http://www.frozenangels.org/festivals.html .  In a cover story about her in the Chicago Tribune Magazine, Professor Lori Andrews explained, "As a lawyer, I’m always dealing with legal cases where things have gone wrong, so I tend to focus on the negative. But I absolutely acknowledge the value of medical research. I just want to be sure the benefits are distributed fairly and there is disclosure of the risks."

Bibliography[edit]

Non-Fiction:

·       New Conceptions: A Consumer's Guide to the Newest Infertility Treatments, Including in Vitro Fertilization, Artificial Insemination,& Surrogate Mother. New York: St. Martins, 1984. ISBN 0-312-56610-7

·       State Laws and Regulations Governing Newborn Screening. National Center for Education in Maternal & Child Health, Georgetown University, 1985. ISBN 0-910059-04-7

·       Between Strangers: Surrogate Mothers, Expectant Fathers, and Brave New Babies. Harper & Row, 1989. ISBN 0-06-016058-6

·       Assessing Genetic Risks: Implications for Health and Social Policy. National Academy Press, 1994. Co-edited with Jane E. Fullarton, Neil A. Holtzman, and Arno G. Motulsky. ISBN 0-309-04798-6

·       The Clone Age: Adventures in the New World of Reproductive Technology. Holt, 2000. ISBN 0-8050-6446-X

·       Black Power, White Blood: The Life and Times of Johnny Spain. Temple University Press, revised edition, 2000. ISBN 1-56639-750-2

·       Body Bazaar: The Market for Human Tissue in the Biotechnology Age. New York: Crown, 2001. With Dorothy Nelkin. ISBN 0-609-60540-2

·       Future Perfect. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-231-12163-6

·       Genetics: Ethics, Law and Policy. St. Paul: West, 2002, 2nd edition, 2006, 3rd edition, 2010. With Mark Rothstein and Maxwell Mehlman. ISBN 0-314-91186-3

·       I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy. New York: Free Press, 2012. ISBN 1-4516-5051-5  Published in Japanese (East Press Co. Ltd., 2013), Arabic (Obeikan Research & Development, 2015), Korean (Youngjin, 2016), and Chinese (Hangzhou Blue Lion Cultural & Creative, 2016).

Fiction:

·       Sequence. New York: St. Martin's, 2006. ISBN 0-312-94245-1 published in Japanese (Hayakawa Publishing, Inc. 2008), in German as The Killer Code (Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH 2006) and in Dutch as Bloedproef (House of Books/ECI 2006, paperback 2007) https://www.boekbeschrijvingen.nl/andrews-lori/andrews.html .

·       The Silent Assassin. New York: St. Martin's, 2007. ISBN 0-312-35271-9 published in Japanese (Hayakawa Publishing, Inc. 2008) and in Dutch as De Stille Moordenaar (House of Books 2008) https://www.boekbeschrijvingen.nl/andrews-lori/andrews.html .

Immunity. New York: St. Martin's, 2008. ISBN 0-312-35272-7 Open Media Books 2020. Published in German as Epidemie (Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH 2008 and 2020) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53632030-epidemie#?ref=nav_comm and in Dutch as IMMUUN (House of Books 2008) https://www.boekbeschrijvingen.nl/andrews-lori/andrews.html.

·       Epidemie (in 2008 and 2020).

External links[edit]

·       Lori Andrews Social Network Constitution website. socialnetworkconstitution.com.

References[edit]

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^[1] York v. Jones, 717 F. Supp. 421 (E.D. Va. 1989).

^[2] Lifchez v. Hartigan, 735 F. Supp. 1361 (N.D. Ill. 1990).

^[3] Greenberg v. Miami Childrens Hospital, 264 F. Supp. 2d 1064 (S.D. Fla. 2003): Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., 569 U.S. 576 (2013).

^[4] Amicus Brief of American Medical Association,” Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., 569 U.S. 576 (2013).

^[5] Lori Andrews resume, https://kentlaw.iit.edu/sites/default/files/2025-08/lori_andrews_cv_2025.pdf

^[6] “Facebook is Using You,” The New York Times, Op-Ed, February 4, 2012.

^[7] “The Bones We Carried,” The New York Times, Op-Ed, June 22, 2007. Libbymandy (talk) 17:02, 5 June 2026 (UTC)