Titles

Professor of Law

School Affiliation

Carey School of Law

Specialties

• Genetic Privacy and the Law
• Health Care Law

About

Natalie Ram is professor of law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. She is also adjunct faculty with the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University. Professor Ram is a leading scholar on the intersection of genetic privacy and the law. Her work has been published in both law reviews and scientific journals, including Harvard Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Texas Law Review, Science, and Nature Biotechnology. Professor Ram has also been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Slate and interviewed on NPR’s Science Friday, Here & Now, and Reveal. She teaches courses in Maryland Carey Law’s Law and Health Care Program. Professor Ram was a 2021 Greenwall Faculty Scholar in Bioethics. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute. Before joining Maryland Carey Law, Professor Ram clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and for Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer, U.S. Supreme Court. Subsequently, she worked in the Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation Group at Morrison & Foerster in Washington, D.C. Professor Ram taught previously at the University of Baltimore School of Law. She earned her JD at Yale Law School and AB in public and international affairs at Princeton University.

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This information was last updated January 2, 2025.