ITHACA, N.Y. -- Should hospitals be allowed to sell your blood to researchers? Should researchers be permitted to patent your genes without your consent? Those are among the compelling questions Lori B. Andrews will address Wednesday, April 10, when she delivers the second annual Bernard S. Yudowitz Lecture at Cornell University Law School.

The talk will be at 4 p.m. in the Stein Mancuso Amphitheater in Myron Taylor Hall on Cornell's campus. Admission is free and open to the general public.

Andrews is considered one of the nation's preeminent authorities on the medical-legal ethics of genetics research. Her path-breaking research and scholarship on reproductive and genetic technologies and the disposition of frozen embryos prompted The National Law Journal to list her as one of the "100 most influential lawyers in America." CBS and Paramount Pictures are developing a television series based on her career, and an article in USA Today cited her work this way: "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."

Andrews is author of the books Body Bazaar: The Market for Human Tissue in the Biotechnology Age (Crown, 2001); Future Perfect: Confronting Decisions About Genetics (Columbia University Press, 2001); and The Clone Age: Adventures in the New World of Reproductive Technology (Henry Holt, 2000). She is a frequent commentator on medical-legal ethics issues and has appeared on such television programs as "60 Minutes," "Nightline" and "Oprah." Among the groups she has advised on genetic and reproductive issues are: the U.S. Congress, the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the World Health Organization.

Currently a visiting professor of public and international affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, Andrews serves as distinguished professor of law, associate vice president and director of the Institute of Science, Law and Technology at Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology. She earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University and her J.D. degree from Yale Law School. The Bernard S. Yudowitz Lecture Series was established in 1999 by Cornell alumnus Dr. Bernard S. Yudowitz '55. The series brings practitioners and scholars to Cornell Law School for annual lectures on subjects of importance to students with an interest in law and medicine. For information about the Yudowitz lecture, contact Douglas Jones, director of communication, Cornell Law School, (607) 255-0160 or dcj9@cornell.edu .

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