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Sonia Mateu Suter Faculty Member

Positions

  • Professor of Law, LAW , Law 2002 -
  • Director, Health Law Initiative, LAW , Law 2020 -
  • Associate Professor, LAW , Law 1999 - 2010
Professor Suter's scholarship brings together her training in genetics and former work as a genetic counselor with her training as a lawyer and bioethicist. She teaches Torts, Law and Medicine, Genetics and the Law, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies. Her scholarship addresses such issues as the routinization of prenatal testing, genetics exceptionalism, privacy and property protections of genetic information, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, reproductive technologies, eugenics, DNA forensics, newborn screening laws, constitutional theories of reproductive rights, the commodification of reproduction, informed consent laws in abortion and end-of-life decision making, First Amendment issues regarding informed consent laws and reproductive technologies, informed decision making with respect to genomics testing, and future methods of reproduction involving the creation of egg and sperm, etc. She has also advised and worked with policy makers on issues related to genetics and bioethics.

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