Assistant Professor of Law. (Patent Law; Contracts; International Law and Science.) Professor Safrin earned her J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley and her B.A. magna cum laude from Pomona College. She clerked for Chief Judge Mary M. Schroeder of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at the San Francisco law firm of Hanson & Bridgett. For eight years she was an attorney-adviser at the Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State, where she helped negotiate treaties and international instruments pertaining to biotechnology, biological diversity, and marine pollution. Prior to that, she served as legal counsel for diplomatic law and litigation and as legal counsel for African affairs. She is a recipient of several Department of State awards for outstanding service. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in September 2002, Professor Safrin was an Open Society Institute Individual Projects Fellow and a visiting scholar at the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C. Articles by Professor Safrin include "Treaties in Collision: The Biosafety Protocol and the World Trade Organization Agreements" in the American Journal of International Law (2002) and "Hyperownership in a Time of Biotechnological Promise: The International Conflict to Control the Building Blocks of Life" in the American Journal of International Law (forthcoming).