Andrew W. Torrance

Dr. Torrance joined KU's School of Law in 2005 from Harvard University where he had served as Hrdy Visiting Professor of Conservation Biology and Eliot House Resident Tutor in Biology and Law. He also has held fellowships or served as visiting scholar and professor at a number of institutions, including Northwestern University, DePaul University, and MIT Sloan School of Management. 

Dr. Torrance teaches and conducts research in patent law, intellectual property, innovation, food and drug regulation, biotechnology law, biodiversity law, biolaw, and empirical, experimental, and big data approaches to the law. He practiced biotechnology patent law at Fish & Richardson PC, the world’s largest intellectual property law firm, and served as in-house patent counsel at Inverness Medical Innovations, a global biotechnology company. He founded the annual Biolaw Conference, and co-founded the leading annual patent conference, PatCon. 

In 2009, KU named Dr. Torrance a Docking Faculty Scholar, a university-wide program that honors faculty members who have distinguished themselves in their early careers.

Learn more about Andrew Torrance on KU's School of Law website.